The Nobel Peace Prize
Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize closed on January 31. Now, the Norwegian Nobel Committee faces the difficult task of deciding on a worthy winner of this prize. The criteria upon which they base that decision is a few brief lines in Alfred Nobel’s 1895 final will, originally written in Swedish. Yet the English translation of the will hardly fully captures Nobel’s intentions. The prize seeks to benefit the work of those who pursue peace among nations as well as those who promote peace within them.
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