Nobel peace, among the favorites Greta, Oms and Tikhanovskaya

There is once again Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, in recent days engaged in Milan for the preCop26, among the favorites for the Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced next Friday 8 October. It would be a recognition of the growing importance of the campaign to fight climate change, after a summer marked by violent fires in Greece and devastating floods in Germany, to remain in Europe, of which 18-year-old Greta – also among the favorites of last year year – became the symbol. With her also the leader of the Belarusian opposition in exile Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the World Health Organization (WHO) for her role in the fight against the Covid pandemic and then Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to protect journalists (CPJ ), which would be awarded for emphasizing “the importance of independent media” and the need to “fight fake news”, explained the director of the Oslo Peace Research Institute, Henrik Urdal, who publishes his shortlist every year on the most likely candidates for the highest award. But the name of Alexei Navalny, the Russian blogger and opposition leader in prison since January, after returning to Moscow following the poisoning over a year ago, is also mentioned. in Siberia and attributed to the KGB. For the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 – last year the award went to the World Food Program, a UN agency based in Rome, for its commitment in the fight against the ame in the world – 329 candidates are in the running.