A rep from the Peace Research Institute Oslo leaves one well-known name off of the likely Nobel recipients list [View all]
While Trump did also have varying degrees of involvement in other peace agreements around the world, often highly exaggerating his role in them, it is widely expected that the committee will not choose Trump, and that has politicians in Norway scrambling to plan for what he might do.
“Donald Trump is taking the US in an extreme direction, attacking freedom of speech, having masked secret police kidnapping people in broad daylight and cracking down on institutions and the courts. When the president is this volatile and authoritarian, of course we have to be prepared for anything,” said Kirsti Bergstø, who heads up the Socialist Left Party of Norway, a minor party in a power agreement with the Labor government. “The Nobel Committee is an independent body and the Norwegian government has no involvement in determining the prizes. But I’m not sure Trump knows that. We have to be prepared for anything from him.”
Among the risks newspaper columnist Harald Stranghelle warns Norway to prepare for is that Trump imposes new punitive tariffs on Norway, demands more contributions to the NATO defense budget, or even declares Norway to be an enemy of the United States.
“While [Trump] clearly deserves credit for his efforts to end the war in Gaza, it is still too early to tell whether the peace proposal will be implemented and lead to lasting peace,” Nina Græger of the Peace Research Institute Oslo told The Guardian, saying the most likely recipients of the Peace Prize this year are either Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms, the Committee to Protect Journalists, or the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
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