Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Date, Time, and Possible Winners

The Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the long-awaited winner (or winners) of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, October 10th. The announcement will begin at 11:00 a.m. Catalan time. This is the only award made public in Oslo; the rest are announced in Stockholm because they are presented by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

This Nobel Peace Prize comes in a historically warlike context, amid growing global rearmament and a serious crisis of multilateralism that became evident this September at the UN General Assembly. It was precisely at this forum that US President Donald Trump nominated himself for the prize, claiming that in just six months of his presidency, he has already ended "seven wars," a claim denied by all fact-checking experts.

Trump has made no secret of his desire to win the Nobel Prize, and this week he even said that if he doesn't get it, "it will be an insult" in the United States. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that his hated predecessor, Barack Obama, won it in 2009, when he was just starting out in the White House. The nominations have been secret for 50 years, but some reports suggest that Trump's name is on the list, as well as that of his former ally, billionaire Elon Musk, with whom he has fallen out.

The bookmakers, as always, are trying to figure out who the winner will ultimately be. This year, despite Donald Trump's wishes, the first name on the list is Emergency Response Rooms, a local NGO in Sudan. If this option is chosen, the award would bring visibility to one of the bloodiest and most silenced wars of our time. In second place, the bookmakers place Yulia Navalnaia, the widow of Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition figure who died in Putin's prison. Third place is shared by Donald Trump and UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which has been banned in Israel.

During the UN General Assembly, which served to highlight international support for a Palestinian state, the Spanish Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, also nominated Spanish President Pedro Sánchez for the Nobel Peace Prize, for leading this initiative.

However, the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is responsible for reviewing candidate nominations made by qualified individuals—such as academics, lawyers, parliamentarians, and previous Nobel laureates—usually tries to avoid controversy. Last year's Nobel Prize, for example: also in the midst of the Gaza war, the award went to the Japanese organization for atomic bomb victims, Nihon Hidankyo.

The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor (approximately 934,243 euros), following the guidelines that the prize's creator, Alfred Nobel, wrote in 1895, a year before his death. At that time, he set the prize at 31 million Swedish kronor, a figure that has evolved with the fluctuation of the currency's value. The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901 to Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy. They were recognized for their struggle against war. The former sought to limit the suffering of victims through humanitarian action with the creation of the Red Cross, while the latter was a major promoter of pacifism. Other personalities who have received the Nobel Peace Prize over the years include Theodore Roosevelt (1906), Martin Luther King Jr. (1964), Mikhail Gorbachev (1990), Nelson Mandela (1994), Barack Obama (2009) and Malala Yousafzai (2014).