The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work to « achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. »
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 was awarded Friday to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, with the Nobel committee lauding the « grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki » for its work to « achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. »
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the « taboo against the use of nuclear weapon is under pressure. »
Both and have repeatedly threatened over the last year to use nuclear weapons if they feel their nations are being threatened.
The secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, which is also known as Hibakusha, is 92-year-old Nagasaki bombing survivor Tanaka Terumi, who was 13 when the American bomb hit his city.
The 2024 Peace Prize was awarded against a backdrop of devastating conflicts raging in the world, notably in the , and .
Alfred Nobel stated in his will that the prize should be awarded for « 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.
