The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize is announced Friday. Here's a short list of potential winners.
By Rob Picheta, CNN A Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Norway on Friday, as Europe's biggest war for seven decades rages on the continent.
People are also reading… "This year, it's hard to figure out who might get the prize because there's so little good that is happening in the world of peace and security," Smith told CNN. That question will have been front and center among decision makers in Oslo, Norway, who have been tasked with picking a symbol of peacemaking even as a bordering country wages war on the continent.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sits atop many bookmakers' list of favorites to win the prize, and some companies also list as frontrunners the general population of Ukraine and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , which has aided people displaced by the war.
Navalny is Russian President Vladimir Putin's most prominent domestic critic, and his dissenting views have nearly cost him his life. He was poisoned with a nerve agent in 2020, an attack several Western officials and Navalny himself openly blamed on the Kremlin. Russia has denied any involvement. Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is also generally seen as a strong contender. The dissident was forced into exile in Lithuania after running against strongman leader and Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko in an August 2020 election denounced by the international community as neither free nor fair.
Some suggested the Covid-19 pandemic, which has rocked global security for the past two years, would factor into the mindsets of Nobel decision makers over the past two years -- but instead, awards in 2020 and 2021 highlighted food insecurity and threats to press freedom, respectively.
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