Barack Obama. Jimmy Carter. Woodrow Wilson. Teddy Roosevelt. Al Gore. And Donald Trump?
President Trump hopes to join the exclusive list of presidents and vice-presidents who received one of the most prestigious honors in the world: the Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced on Friday.
The international prize pays tribute to people or organizations whose work makes the world a more peaceful place. Applicants are not made public by the Nobel Committee, but some people publicly share who they call. World leaders, humanitarian workers and international organizations have received the peace prize since its first discount at the beginning of the 20th century.
Here’s what you need to know about the Nobel Peace Prize and if Mr. Trump could receive it:
The winner in 2025 of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday October 10 at 5 a.m. he. He will be awarded on December 10 during an official ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
The Nobel Prize was created by a Swedish businessman named Alfred Nobel. In his will, he declared that his fortune should be used to establish a fund that could distribute prices “to those who … will have given the greatest advantage to humanity”, according to the website of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel’s specified that it will be given “to the person who will have done the most or the best work for the fraternity between nations and the abolition or reduction of permanent armies and the training and propagation of peace congresses”, but many types of work have been honored, including efforts to fight climate change and promote democracy.
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The prize was awarded to politicians who sought international peace, the people who worked for armament control and nuclear disarmament and international human rights agencies. Other Nobel Prizes are awarded for achievements medicineliterature and other areas.
The winners receive a medal, a diploma and a monetary prize, according to the price website. The 6.6 centimeters gold medal shows a portrait of Nobel, with its name, its birth year and the year of death engraved at the limit. The back of the medal shows three embracing men, to symbolize the international brotherhood, and is engraved with the sentence “for peace and fraternity among the peoples” in Latin.
According to the Prize website, the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to the person who has done the most to advance world peace. It is awarded by a committee selected by the Norwegian Parliament. The other Nobel Prizes are awarded to Sweden.
Anyone or organization can be nominated by all eligible nominators, according to the price website. Eligible nominators include members of national assemblies, members of governments, members of bodies such as the International Court of Justice, college teachers or administrators and former winners or members of the Nobel Committee. The deadline for appointment is January 31. More than 330 candidates were submitted for the Nobel Peace Prize 2025.
The appointments are not verified before the deadline for appointment, according to the price website, so that the appointments are not the committee mentions. The committee does not comment on the candidates publicly. The names of the nominees and the appointment committee cannot be announced for 50 years.
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Once the deadline, the Nobel Committee examines the nominees and creates a limited list of “most interesting and worthy candidates”. These preselected candidates then undergo “assessments and exams” of committee members, according to the price website.
The committee then decides on the winner or winners of the Nobel Peace Prize at its last meeting before the announcement of the winners of the Prize in early October. The decision is made by majority vote, according to the price website, but the committee tries to make a unanimous decision on the winner.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 105 times since 1901, according to the Prize website. One hundred and thirty-nine winners were awarded, including 92 men, 19 women and 28 organizations.
The first prize recipients were the scientist and politician Frédéric Passy and Jean Henry Durant, a Swiss businessman and co-founder of the Red Cross. Passy was honored for his “life work for international peace conferences, diplomacy and arbitration”, while during the prize for his “humanitarian efforts to help injured soldiers and create an international understanding”, according to the Prize website.
Other notable winners have included a Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai in 2014 and former president Barack Obama In 2009. Obama’s victory, for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”, was considered a surprise, because it had been in office for less than a year.
Former president Jimmy Carter received the honor in 2002. Survivor and author of the Holocaust Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 and Bishop Desmond TutuWho worked to end apartheid in South Africa received it in 1984.
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Organizations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize include the United Nations World Food Program and the International campaign to abolish nuclear weapons.
Mr. Trump showed himself up as the “President of Peace” and said he finished six or seven wars During his second term, including conflicts between Israel and Iran,, India and Pakistan And Thailand and Cambodia. Not all conflicts have been fully settled, and it is not clear if the actions or influence of the United States were decisive in each of them, experts in foreign policy told CBS. Trump also proposed a peace plan for Israel and Gaza, and spoken with world leaders About the end Russia War in Ukraine.
Trump told journalists in June that the Nobel Committee “should offer him” the Nobel Peace Prize, and that he “should have obtained it four or five times”. In September, Trump told the United Nations delegates that “everyone says” that he should get the price. He Make similar comments When military generals Gathered in Virginia Last week. However, he told CBS News in September 2025 that he was not looking for the price.
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“I have nothing to say about it,” Trump said at the time. “All I can do is turn off wars.” He added: “I’m not looking for attention. I just want to save lives.”
Trump was appointed for the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in July and the government of Pakistan in June. This week, the Israeli family forum Called the Nobel Prize Committee To give Mr. Trump’s peace prize for his “unshakable commitment and extraordinary leadership” in the search for a Deal to bring the remaining hostages home to house Caught by Hamas on October 7, 2023. But these efforts exceeded the deadline for the Nobel Peace Prize 2025. Mr. Trump was also price nominated During his first mandate.
Experts told the Associated Press that the Nobel Committee should not award Mr. Trump the prize for his achievements to the second mandate so far. However, former president Obama received the prize without having obtained peace agreements during his first year at the White House.
The Committee tends to focus on “the sustainability of peace, the promotion of international fraternity and the calm work of institutions that strengthen these objectives,” said AP. The Committee probably does not want to be considered strong political pressure, said an AP expert.
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