2024 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 11 October 2024.

The citation

The citation reads: "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again".

The laureate

Nihon Hidankyo was founded in 1956.

Why it matters

Nihon Hidankyo is a movement of survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, known as hibakusha, who have campaigned against nuclear weapons.

The prize

The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.