Trump’s Big Dream; Nobel Peace Prize For War

Kokcha News Agency:  As the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner approaches, a list of 338 candidates, including 244 individuals and 94 organizations, marks a notable record in recent years. Among them, Trump, with a wide-ranging lobbying campaign, pressure, and controversial statements to win the prize, has threatened that failure to do so would be a “great insult to America.”

2025 Nobel Peace Prize Candidates

According to the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 website, as of March 5 of this year, 338 candidates have been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, of which 244 are individuals and 94 are organizations, a significant increase compared to last year.

Statistics show that last year, there were 286 candidates for the Peace Prize, and the highest number of candidates was recorded in 2016 with 376 candidates.

According to the report, the deadline for nominations for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was January 31 (Bahman 12, 1403), but members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee have the authority to add more names to the list up to one month after this date.

According to a long-standing tradition of the Nobel Committee, the names of the candidates are neither presented nor confirmed to the media or to the candidates themselves. However, there are cases where their names are mentioned in the media; which is due to mere media speculation or that some organizations and figures announce that they have introduced a specific candidate.

Of course, the list of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize is ultimately published after 50 years, in accordance with the statutes of the Nobel Foundation. According to the Nobel website announcement, the list of the winner or winners of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is scheduled to be announced on Friday, October 10, 2025, on the anniversary of Nobel’s death (Mehr 18, 1404), and the awards ceremony will be held on December 10 (Azar 19) in Oslo, Norway.

But in response to the question of who can nominate a candidate? It can be said: thousands of people; members of governments and parliaments; current heads of countries; university professors in the fields of history, social sciences, law and philosophy; and former winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, and others.

Who or which organizations have been nominated?

While efforts have been made to keep the full list of candidates secret, some introducers have put forward their candidates.

Among the names revealed this year are the International Criminal Court, NATO, Chow Hang-tung, a Hong Kong prisoner activist, and Irwin Cotler, a Canadian human rights lawyer, and Elon Musk.

According to Reuters, the leaders of Cambodia, Israel, and Pakistan have also said that they have nominated US President Donald Trump. Of course, their nominations were made in the spring and summer, after the deadline of January 31, which is why it is said that they are not valid for the 2025 award.

Analysts say that Trump, like other policies, has entered aggressively to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Lobbying, Invasion, and Pressure from Trump to Receive the Nobel Peace Prize / Can He Win?

Most international media emphasize that Trump, like all his other policies, has entered aggressively to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump has repeatedly said that if he does not win, it will be a “great insult” to the United States.

According to media reports, Donald Trump, who aspires to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has launched a closed-door lobbying campaign in an aggressive manner to win this year’s Nobel Foundation prize by any means, which is why his advertising for himself has increased more than ever in the days remaining until Friday.

The aspiring award winner told the United Nations General Assembly: Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that he and the United States never received any credit for signing the Abraham Accords, which normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab countries, during his first term in 2020.

Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Vitkov, who is involved in efforts to end the war in Russia and Ukraine and the conflict in Gaza, claimed at a cabinet meeting in Washington in August that the Nobel Committee should take action and award the prize to his boss.

Trump has long claimed that the Nobel Committee has unfairly ignored him and has repeatedly criticized the award of the prize to one of his predecessors, saying at the Detroit Economic Club in October 2024: If I was called Obama, they would give me the Nobel Prize in 10 seconds.

Trump claims that since returning to the White House in January, he has ended at least six or seven wars, including the armed conflict between India and Pakistan in May, the war between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwandan-backed rebels, and border conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia.

Trump’s longtime friend, who runs the campaign, is working hard to help Trump achieve his dream. His special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Vitkov, who is involved in efforts to end the war in Russia and Ukraine and the conflict in Gaza, said at a cabinet meeting in Washington in August that the Nobel Committee should finally take action and award the prize to his boss.

In the past few days, Trump has indirectly put pressure on the Nobel Foundation again in a gathering of senior US military figures, saying that he does not expect to win the prize: they give it to someone who has done nothing, and claimed that such a result would be a “great insult to America” and put pressure on it only a few days before the committee’s decision was announced.

This comment came less than 24 hours after the US President announced a new effort to end the war in Gaza with a 20-point plan agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

On Friday, Hamas, the Palestinian group that runs Gaza, agreed to release all Israeli hostages captured in the October 7, 2023 attack, but said other parts of Trump’s plan would be negotiable.

The issue is so serious for Trump that, according to some informed officials, Vitkov has raised Trump’s proposal to receive the award in private conversations with his European counterparts, away from public attention.

Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, has also used all the capacities of American foreign policy to beat the drum of the Nobel Prize in favor of Trump. Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, has also used all the capacities of American foreign policy to beat the drum of the Nobel Prize in favor of Trump.

According to media reports, in July, the US President had a cold call with Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian Minister of Finance and former Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, while walking on a street in Oslo. According to Norwegian government officials who confirmed the phone call, the two discussed tariffs as well as the Nobel Prize. The call was first revealed by a local newspaper in Oslo.

According to Bloomberg, Trump’s campaign lobby has even entered the world of business companies. Albert Borla, the CEO of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, recently praised Trump for managing Operation Warp Speed, which led the development of Covid vaccines in the United States, and claimed in an overt advertisement that this effort is “usually worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.”

Some media, in addition to Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, have listed six heads of different countries who have announced that Trump has been nominated for the award, including “Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan, Bryce Oligo Goma, the President of Gabon, Han Mant, the Prime Minister of Cambodia, Oliver Duhan Gireh, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda, and the Government of Pakistan.”

Netanyahu is advocating for the Nobel Peace Prize for Trump, while the widespread attacks of the Israeli regime against the Palestinian people have so far left more than 67,000 dead, most of whom are women and children. In addition, America and Europe are the main sellers of weapons to Israel.

Admission of Political Pressure

The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee recently told the media: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has not been under any direct political pressure, but it is obvious that several campaigns, both at the public and private levels, are underway. He is aware that companies have previously been hired “to influence the media and people who they believe can influence the committee.”

Trump’s campaign lobby has even entered the world of business companies. Albert Borla, the CEO of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, recently praised Trump for managing Operation Warp Speed, which led the development of Covid vaccines in the United States, and claimed in an overt advertisement that this effort is usually worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite all the efforts of Trump and his advertising campaign to win this award, if he does not win on October 10, historians will have to wait half a century to find out whether he was on the final list of 2025 at all.

Since the first award of this prize in 1901, a total of four US presidents have received this prize. Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Woodrow Wilson in 1919, Jimmy Carter in 2002 and Barack Obama in 2009, and now Trump believes that as the fifth American president, he can win this prize in his aggressive way.

Bloomberg, however, reported that some in Norway fear Trump’s revenge if he is disappointed in achieving the peace prize.

105 Prizes, 139 Winners

Since 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 105 times to 139 winners: 92 men, 19 women and 28 organizations.

Regarding the Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel’s will stipulates that the prize should be awarded to the person who has done the most or the best work to promote friendship among nations, abolish or reduce permanent armies, and to hold and promote peace congresses.

According to the Nobel Peace Committee, in the early years of the Peace Prize until World War I, the prize was often awarded to the pioneers of the organized peace movement. In the years between the two wars, the focus shifted to active politicians who sought to promote peace, stability and international justice through diplomacy and international agreements, but prizes were also awarded for humanitarian work, such as the prize awarded to Nansen, the High Commissioner for Refugees of the League of Nations.

According to this report, since World War II, the Peace Prize has been mainly awarded to efforts in four main areas: arms control and disarmament, peace negotiations, democracy and human rights, and efforts aimed at creating a more organized and peaceful world. In the 21st century, the Nobel Committee has also accepted efforts to limit the damage caused by climate change and environmental threats caused by human activities, as part of the Peace Prize.

Although, according to the Nobel Foundation, the winner of this prize receives a medal, a diploma, 11 million Swedish kronor ($1.19 million), global attention is probably more important to Trump than the other two.

Trump has repeatedly claimed that he “deserves” this award because he has ended seven wars and may end the eighth war if Israel and Hamas agree. Figures that experts have called highly exaggerated and unrealistic.

According to the “Committee to Protect Journalists”, since the beginning of the Israel and Gaza war on October 7, 2023, only 192 journalists have been killed. According to the committee’s estimate, at least 178 of them were Palestinian journalists who were killed by Israel.

In any case, Trump has shown a great interest and effort to receive this award, and for this reason, he has been nominated several times by himself and people inside America, as well as some foreign politicians, since 2018.

A review of the records of some of the awards given shows that these awards have been given to some people who have been accompanied by many critics and protesters, including the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, the former Prime Minister of Myanmar, in 1991, who remained silent in the face of the widespread massacre of Muslims by the army and internal extremist groups of this country.

The awarding of the prize by the Nobel Peace Committee in 1973 to Henry Kissinger, the then US Secretary of State, and Le Duc Tho, the leader of the North Vietnamese forces, for jointly negotiating a ceasefire and ending the US role in the Vietnam War, the awarding of the prize to Barack Obama in 2009, which took place only a few months after his first term as President of the United States and before the increase of American forces in Afghanistan, had widely angered or confused nations and critics.

Therefore, critics say, the Nobel Peace Committee can take similar action under various political pressures.

Some media even stated that Norway is holding its breath these days. When Bloomberg asked a senior official, who did not want to be named, about the possible reaction in case of the failure of the highly unpredictable US President, he jokingly said that he was considering sick leave on October 10.

On the other hand, Oslo has been involved in tariff pressures since Trump came to power. The Trump administration has previously imposed a 15% tax on imports from Norway as part of its global tariff program, which has upset the Norwegians and is why it is still involved in trade negotiations with Washington.

Finally, some observers have speculated: Trump’s widespread political pressures and lobbies may cause 2025 to be the twentieth time that the Nobel Committee does not announce a winner or winners for the Peace Prize.