The world is all set to get new winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 2022. Nobel Peace Prize 2022 winners will be announced on October 7, 2022. For the past few days, the world is keenly following the prestigious award ceremony and trying to know about the people who have excelled in their field and brought a change to the world. Although the Nobel Prize is given in almost every field, however, its peace prize is what people always look upon. For those wondering why the Nobel Peace Prize is given and what is its significance, the official website says, 'The will Alfred Nobel made in 1895 was inspired by belief in the community of man. The Peace Prize was to be awarded to the person who had done most for "fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".' With Nobel Prize 2022 all set to be announced on October 7, the question arises when and where can people watch the Nobel Peace Prize Live Streaming.
Nobel Peace Prize 2022: Live streaming, timing, and date
As mentioned above, the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 will be announced on October 7, 2022. The announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 winner will take place at 2.30 pm IST. For Nobel Peace Prize 2022 Live streaming, people of India can follow the Nobel Prize official website or can watch it live on the YouTube page. It is pertinent to mention here that the winners of the Nobel Prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, and literature have already been announced.
Coming Nobel Peace Prize, it is one of the six Nobel awards given each year, is given to individuals or organisations whose contributions bring vital change either at the micro or macro level and can be rallied for the process of peace. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Till now (while writing this) 102 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded from 1901 to 2021 and have been awarded to 137 laureates- 109 individuals and 28 organizations.
Furthermore, sixty-nine Nobel Peace Awards have been given to one laureate, 31 have been shared by two laureates and so far only two peace prizes have been shared between three persons.
Nobel Peace Prize winners in the past
Talking about Nobel Peace Prize winners who have won the prestigious honour in the past include- Barack Obama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai, Aung Sang Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela. Notably, journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. The youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate to date is Malala Yousafzai. She jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17 years. At 87 years old Joseph Rotblat is the oldest Nobel Peace Prize laureate to date. He won the award in 1995.
Alt News co-founders among contenders for the year's coveted recognition
Ahead of the announcement of the year’s prestigious Nobel Prize on Friday, Indian Journalists and Alt News co-founders Pratik Sinha and Mohammad Zubair have been nominated by Norwegian lawmakers for the year’s prestigious recognition. The list of the favorites to win the year’s award was made public by Norwegian Lawmakers, predictions from the bookmakers, and shortlisting from the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
The article read, “Journalists Pratik Sinha and Mohammed Zubair, co-founders of Indian fact-checking website AltNews, have relentlessly been battling misinformation in India, where the Hindu nationalist BJP party has been accused of frequently stoking discrimination against Muslims. Sinha and Zubair have methodologically debunked rumors and fake news circulating on social media and called out hate speech."