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Abiy Ahmed Ali receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. The prize is also meant to recognise all the stakeholders working for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia and in the East and Northeast African regions.

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The announcement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize will take place at the Nobel Institute on Friday 9 October at 11 am (CEST). In order to comply with the infection control advice given by the Norwegian Public Health Institute, only a small number of journalists and photographers will be invited to attend the press conference. Press that does not get a space at the press conference may, however, apply for an interview after the press conference. More information about this can be found in the press room on our website.

The award ceremony in Oslo City Hall on 10 December at 1 pm has been cancelled. Instead, a scaled-down award ceremony will be held at the same time in the University Aula for a limited number of invited guests and with the laureate(s) physically or digitally present. The Aula was used for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in the years 1947-1989. The Norwegian Nobel Committee emphasizes that 2020 is an atypical year. Unless something unforeseen happens, next year’s ceremony will again take place in Oslo City Hall.

The traditional Nobel banquet on the evening of 10 December has also been cancelled. The same goes for the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, which will be relaunched in a completely new fashion in 2021.

The Nobel Institute is in dialogue with the University of Oslo and the City of Oslo about the Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2020. Whether this event can be carried out as normal in the University Aula on 11 December remains to be seen. In that case, it will be a scaled-down event where some of the participants might not be physically present, but participate digitally from their respective home countries.

Other regular Nobel events in Oslo – such as the international press conference at the Nobel Institute on 9 December, Save the Children’s peace party at the Nobel Peace Center, and the audience at the Royal Palace on 10 December, as well as meetings between the laureate(s) and the President of the Storting, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister together with the Nobel Peace Center’s exhibition opening on 11 December – we must get back to as soon as we know whether this year’s laureate(s) will be coming to Oslo or not, Njølstad concludes.

First published by the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 22/09/2020. For questions regarding the Nobel Peace Prize, please contact the Nobel Institute postmaster@nobel.no.

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The peace conference will take place on 7 October 2020, during the same week as the announcement of the Nobel Prizes for 2020. It will focus on how civil society, private sector and policy makers can work together to reach the goals of gender equality and diversity.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. It also marks 25 years since the Beijing Platform, the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women’s rights. It is also the beginning of the Decade of Action, with just ten years to go to deliver on the global Sustainable Development Goals. 

As we mark the anniversary of 1325, we will not only look back at goals achieved, but also look ahead, on the work that remains. Between 1992 and 2018, women constituted only 13 percent of negotiators, 3 percent of mediators and only 4 percent of signatories in major peace processes, and women still make up only 4.2 percent of military personnel in peacekeeping missions. At the same time, women’s rights are under pressure internationally and conflict-related sexual violence continues to rise, unabated.

Because of the proliferation and changing nature of our present-day challenges to peace, space is needed for leaders, experts, and peace workers to come together to advance peacebuilding.

“To reach the goals of gender equality and diversity, and to empower and protect women, we need cooperation and partnerships between the private sector, civil society and policy makers. Therefore, we invite members of different sectors to meet, talk and work together to exchange best practices and create the new solutions for the future”, says Fløgstad.

A hybrid peace conference, happening both at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo and digitally across the world, 

 gather businesses and civil society, changemakers and Nobel laureates. Among the speakers are Nobel Peace Prize laureates Jody Williams and ICAN’s Beatrice Fihn, Netflix’s former Director of Inclusion, Michelle King,  and Libyan peace activist Hajer Sharief and more.

Together with an engaged audience, participating physically and digitally, they will make Oslo Pax 2020 a vibrate conference for action and impact, and produce concrete output that will positively add to the implementation of the agenda on diversity, peace and security worldwide.Collectively, we shall aim to make inclusion and diversity the social norm.

Oslo Pax 2020 - DIVERSITY MATTERS: Gender and inclusion in peace and war is cohosted by Designit. Main partners are Hydro and Atea. A special thanks to our gold partner ABB.

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