Nobel Prize 2024 : The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the atomic bombings of World War II. According to the Nobel Committee, the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo. He has been given this honor for the campaign to make the world free from nuclear weapons.

Announcing the award on Friday, Jorgen Vatne Fridnes, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said that the consensus on the prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure and that is why the award is being given to this organization. He said that the Nobel Committee wants to honor all those survivors who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, have chosen to use their experiences to create hope and connection for peace.

What is the Nihon Hidankyo Organization?

Nihon Hidankyo includes survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, also known as Hibakusha. According to information received, the Norwegian Nobel Committee received 286 applications for the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

Efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons have been honored by the Nobel Committee before. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 2017 to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and in 1995 to Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs for their efforts to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in international politics and to eliminate such weapons in the long term.

It is worth noting that the announcement of this year's Nobel Prizes began on Monday. The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to American scientists Victor Ambrose and Gary Ruvkun on Monday. On Tuesday, it was announced that John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries that enabled machine learning.