How the Nobel Peace Prize is decided

Published on 13/10/2012 00:00

BETWEEN 150 and 200 nominations are received for the Nobel peace prize annually by groups and individuals, including governments, parliamentarians, senior legal figures and leading academics.

The committee meets and draws up a shortlist that typically contains five to 20 candidates.

They are then considered by the Nobel Institute’s permanent advisers, a small group of Norwegian university professors with expertise in subject areas with a bearing on the peace prize.

The Nobel committee then discusses the merits of each candidate, before making a final decision on the prizewinner in the autumn.