"for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea."
Date
11 October 2019 (2019-10-11) (announcement by Berit Reiss-Andersen)
10 December 2019 (ceremony)
Location
Oslo, Norway
Presented by
Norwegian Nobel Committee
Reward(s)
9.0 million SEK (830.000 €)
First awarded
1901
Website
Official website
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The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the prime minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed (b. 1976) "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea."[1] The award was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on 11 October 2019.
One year after Abiy received the prize, he presided over the outbreak of the Tigray War, which saw hundreds of thousands of casualties and led to the displacement of more than 800,000 persons.[2] In response to the outbreak of hostilities, the Norwegian Nobel Committee released a statement in January 2022 which called the humanitarian situation "extremely serious"; said the lack of delivery of humanitarian aid to Tigray was "unacceptable"; and observed that "As Prime Minister and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Abiy Ahmed has a special responsibility to end the conflict and help to create peace."[3]
Since Abiy was awarded the prize, his leadership during Tigray War has been characterized by media organizations such as The Guardian, Der Spiegel, NPR, and CNN as genocidal.[4][5][6][7]
^"The Nobel Peace Prize 2019". The Nobel Peace Prize. 11 October 2019. Archived from the original on 12 October 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
^"The Nobel committee should resign over the atrocities in Tigray". The Guardian. 7 June 2021. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^Mackintosh, Eliza (3 November 2021). "Ethiopia is at war with itself. Here's what you need to know about the conflict". CNN. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^Schaap, Fritz (28 October 2021). "Ethiopia's Chosen One: A Brutal War Waged By a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Der Spiegel. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^Abdelfatah, Rund (23 July 2023). "The Hidden War". NPR. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
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