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Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition  2020

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Celebrating the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 

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An international peace conference, live from the Nobel Peace Center, with four Nobel Peace Prize laureates, decision makers and leading experts on food security. 

A hunger crisis is rarely an accident

An open wound

In his opening speech at Fix the Food Conference, Norwegian Minister of International Development, Dag-Inge Ulstein, stressed the link between food and peace. A link that was put on top of the agenda when the World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 – and stayed there. Friday, the Nobel Peace Center and the World Food Programme co-hosted the international peace conference Fix the Food, with four Nobel Peace Prize laureates, experts on food and food systems, activists and peace practitioners. 

The message from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates was clear: Peace, democracy and international solidarity are prerequisites for reaching the goal of ending world hunger.

As David Beasley, the Executive Director of the World Food Programme, pointed out: There is enough food in the world to feed every single person, yet 811 million people go to bed hungry every night.”

Journalist, peace activist and Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman was clear on the connection between hunger and bad governance: “Warlords do not concern themselves with how to secure food for people”, she said. Her home country Yemen is experiencing the largest humanitarian conflict in our times, and holds presently WFP’s largest international operation.

José Ramos-Horta, the former President of East-Timor who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996, pointed out the international community’s responsibility:

“Food security, availability of food for everyone, for the poorest of the poor, is an ethical, moral issue. And hunger is a solvable problem". 

The connection between the climate crisis, the international health crisis and the hunger crisis in the world was also punctuated by many of the speakers at Fix the Food, among them professor Johan Rockström from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and Colombia’s former President Juan Manuel Santos, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016.

“As we learned in Colombia, food security, peace building and climate crisis mitigation are highly interdependent. That is a lesson we must never forget.”

EAT's Executive Chair, Gunhild Stordalen, was one of the speakers who participated live from the stage in Oslo. She brought fresh news from the UN Food Systems Summit the previous day, where more than 100 countries had defined their national food systems pathways, thus recognizing that food is a prerequisite for achieving the SDGs by 2030.

“The food Summit has come and gone but the hard work of transforming our food systems is only just beginning. So please come onboard”, she said, inviting everyone to take part in a common “dugnad” to fix the food.

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A call for international solidarity

An exhibition about food, war and the World Food Programme. 

Hunger and war is closely linked together, and food can also be a weapon of war. Destruction of crops and starvation of certain groups of people have been used as strategies in conflicts throughout history. I today's conflicts in Syria and Yemen, control over the food supplies is an important means of power. When the World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020, it was for it's work to combat hunger, but also because the organisation is contributing to peace by providing food asstance to millions of people affected by war and conflict. 

For this year's Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition, one of Africa’s leading photographers, 

, has been commissioned by the Nobel Peace Center to make a photo series on food in war and conflict. In ten powerful photos she illustrated ten differnet countries and conflicts where food is used as weapon. 

Read the stories behind the Peace Prize Exhibition 2020

The Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2020 also tells the story about the World Food Programme and their work. In June and July, the short documentary Hunger Ward, abouth the health workers fighting hunger on the frontline in Yemen, is shown as a part of the exhibition. 

During the summer, the audience can take part in the creation of an art work inside the exhibition. In artist Espen Henningsen's installation "To Build from Above", the audience is invited to draw and write on textiles, answering the question: What does food mean to you?

"I want the installation to become a place where people can reflect over the importance of food for stability and peace in the world", says Henningsen. 

The material will eventually become a curtain, inspired by the Syria curtain made by the artist Elisabeth Harr. It refers to how curtains and carpets are being used as a shield from snipers in Syria. 

"The curtain also symbolises how food aid can help protect the population in conflict areas", says Asle Olsen, curator at the Nobel Peace Center.  

The Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2020 opened in a digital version 10 December 2020, the same day as the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP). The physical exhibition will open 29 May, after the center has been closed for six months due to the corona restrictions. The exhibiton is also showing the story and work of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate WFP. 

The exhibition will be available until 29 November 2021. 

The exhibition is supported by Yara International (Nobel Peace Prize Celebration Partner 2020), Canon (print partner) and Bergesenstiftelsen.

Who will receive the Nobel Peace Prize 2021?

A call for international solidarity

Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2020

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