Overview

• The Peace Prize announcement is scheduled for Friday in Oslo, with all 2025 Nobel winners due to be named by Monday, Oct. 13.
• The Norwegian Nobel Committee selects the laureate and the Nobel Foundation administers the prize.
• Winners receive an 18-carat gold medal, a diploma, and 11 million Swedish kronor funded by returns from Alfred Nobel’s endowment.
• The 2024 laureate was Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo for representing Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors and preserving testimony opposing nuclear weapons.
• Recent honorees underscore human rights and press freedom, including Narges Mohammadi—provisionally released in December 2024 and facing threats of re-arrest—and civil society groups such as Memorial, which was shut down in Russia.