By Ummul Idris
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announces the winner of the 2025 Peace Prize on Friday , marking the climax of the annual Nobel season.
The winner will be revealed at 11 a.m (0900 GMT) in Oslo.
This year, 338 candidates are running for the Peace Prize, including 244 individuals and 94 organisations, 52 more than in 2024.
The identities of Nobel nominees are kept secret for 50 years.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that he deserves to receive the award for resolving conflicts from Pakistan-India to Armenia-Azerbaijan.
His proposal to end the devastating two-year war in Gaza, which provided the framework for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, once again drew attention to his bid for the prize.
In 2024, the Japanese peace organisation Nihon Hidankyo received the award for its efforts to promote a world free of nuclear weapons, drawing on testimony from survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
This week has already seen laureates named in medicine, physics, chemistry and literature.
The week concludes on Monday with the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
All other Nobel Prizes are traditionally awarded in Stockholm, while the Peace Prize is uniquely presented in Oslo.
Each prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (1.1 million dollars).
The prizes are formally presented at ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and founder of the awards (1833–1896). (dpa/NAN)
