page_title: Nobel Peace Prize
section_title: Nomination
hierarchical_section_title: Nobel Peace Prize / Nomination and selection / Nomination
caption_attribution_description: The 14th Dalai Lama with Desmond Tutu in 2004.
context_page_description: The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since March 1901, it has been awarded annually to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
  Per Alfred Nobel's will, the recipient is selected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. Since 1990, the prize is awarded on 10 December in Oslo City Hall each year. The prize was formerly awarded in the Atrium of the University of Oslo Faculty of Law, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and the Parliament.
  Due to its political nature, the Nobel Peace Prize has, for most of its history, been the subject of numerous controversies.
context_section_description: Each year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee specifically invites qualified people to submit nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The statutes of the Nobel Foundation specify categories of individuals who are eligible to make nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. These nominators are:
  Members of national assemblies and governments and members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
  Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the International Court of Justice at the Hague
  Members of Institut de Droit International
  University professors of history, social sciences, philosophy, law, and theology, university presidents, and directors of peace research and international affairs institutes
  Former recipients, including board members of organizations that have previously received the prize
  Present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
  Former permanent advisers to the Norwegian Nobel Institute
  Nominations must usually be submitted to the Committee by the beginning of February in the award year.  Nominations by committee members can be submitted up to the date of the first Committee meeting after this deadline.
  In 2009, a record 205 nominations were received, but the record was broken again in 2010 with 237 nominations; in 2011, the record was broken once again with 241 nominations. The statutes of the Nobel Foundation do not allow information about nominations, considerations, or investigations relating to awarding the prize to be made public for at least 50 years after a prize has been awarded. Over time, many individuals have become known as "Nobel Peace Prize Nominees", but this designation has no official standing, and means only that one of the thousands of eligible nominators suggested the person's name for consideration. Indeed, in 1939, Adolf Hitler received a satirical nomination from a member of the Swedish parliament, mocking the (serious but unsuccessful) nomination of Neville Chamberlain; however, nominations from 1901 to 1956 have been released in a database.
caption: The 14th Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureates
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