Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Details

US President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by a member of the lower house of Congress. The Western press has repeatedly expressed the opinion that Trump expects to receive the title of peacemaker by initiating negotiation processes in conflicts in Africa, the East and Ukraine. How the Peace Prize is awarded and whether Trump has a chance to receive it is in the Izvestia article.

Trump's nomination

• Donald Trump's candidacy was recommended for the Nobel Peace Prize by Buddy Carter, a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Georgia. On his initiative, the US president was nominated for the award for mediating an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran and preventing the Islamic Republic from obtaining "the deadliest weapons on the planet." Earlier, the recommendation on Trump's nomination for the award was published by the Government of Pakistan.

• Trump himself has previously stated that he is responsible for ending the conflicts between Rwanda and Congo, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, as well as "maintaining peace between Egypt and Ethiopia" and "implementing the "Abraham Agreements" in the Middle East, which are designed to prevent possible clashes between Middle Eastern states and Israel. The US president has also made efforts to reconcile Ukraine and Russia, but has not yet achieved significant success. Trump said he would not receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his services because "they only give it to liberals."

The order of nomination and award of the prize

• According to the will of the founder of the prize, Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to those who "have done the greatest or best work for the brotherhood between peoples, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, for holding and encouraging peace congresses." The recipient of the award is determined by a committee of five people selected by the Norwegian Parliament. Alfred Nobel did not leave precise criteria for the selection of candidates, so some nominees and even recipients of the prize may turn out to be controversial figures.

• Members of the International Court of Justice, Nobel Prize laureates, current and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, as well as professors, rectors and directors of universities, and members of national parliaments and governments can nominate candidates for nomination. Officially, the Nobel Committee does not announce the nominees and does not comment on press reports about the nominations: any information about the nominees and the criteria for their selection can be published only 50 years after the award.

• According to press reports, English science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and Lithuanian politician and former member of the European Parliament Vytautas Landsbergis, known for his anti-Russian, anti-communist and anti-Semitic statements, were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Such scandalous personalities as American singer Michael Jackson and the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton have repeatedly become nominees for the peace Prize.

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• Among the Nobel Peace Prize laureates over the past 50 years are the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama XIV, the South African anti—apartheid fighter and politician Nelson Mandela, US Presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, and the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times.

Criticism of the award

• Although the Peace Prize is considered one of the most prestigious international awards, the decisions of the Norwegian Nobel Committee have been repeatedly criticized. In particular, in a 2009 survey, 62% of Americans felt that the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, did not deserve an award for his contribution to peace, as he continued the policies of the previous administration and expanded the war in Afghanistan.

• The Award Committee has been repeatedly accused of being politically motivated. So in 2003, the committee announced that it was looking for nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize among female candidates, preferably from countries where women are exploited. In addition, many award winners are not known for their peacefulness: a few years before the award was presented, American diplomat Henry Kissinger supported the carpet bombing of Cambodia, which killed up to 800,000 people.

• The nomination process itself and the criteria for the nominees are also unclear. So, in 2020, an experiment was conducted in Russia: Marina Udgodskaya, a cleaner who won the election of the head of a rural settlement in the Kostroma region, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. One of the local journalists had a teaching certificate and work experience at the university, thanks to which he was technically able to implement it. So the application for her nomination was sent. And although it will be possible to find out whether Blagodarskaya was among the nominees only after 50 years, she is formally considered nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.