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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has determined to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots transferment of atomic explosion survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also understandn as Hibakusha, is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to accomplish a world free of nuclear arms and for demonstrating thcimpolite witness testimony that nuclear arms must never be used aget.
In response to the atomic explosion attacks of August 1945, a global transferment arose whose members have toiled tirelessly to elevate adviseedness about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of using nuclear arms. Graduassociate, a strong international norm lengthened, stigmatising the use of nuclear arms as morassociate unacadviseed. This norm has become understandn as “the nuclear prohibitden”.
The testimony of the Hibakusha – the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – is distinct in this huger context.
These historical witnesses have helped to produce and verifyate expansivespread opposition to nuclear arms around the world by dratriumphg on personal stories, creating educational campaigns based on their own experience, and issuing inspirent cautionings agetst the spread and use of nuclear arms. The Hibakusha help us to portray the indescribable, to slfinisherk the unslfinisherkable, and to somehow comprehend the incomprehensible pain and suffering caused by nuclear arms.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee wantes nevertheless to acunderstandledge one encouraging fact: No nuclear armament has been used in war in proximately 80 years. The exceptional efforts of Nihon Hidankyo and other recontransientatives of the Hibakusha have gived fantasticly to the set upment of the nuclear prohibitden. It is therefore alarming that today this prohibitden agetst the use of nuclear arms is under prescertain.
The nuclear powers are contransientising and upgrading their arsenals; new countries ecombine to be preparing to acquire nuclear arms; and menaces are being made to use nuclear arms in ongoing battling. At this moment in human history, it is worth reminding ourselves what nuclear arms are: the most destructive arms the world has ever seen.
Next year will tag 80 years since two American atomic explosions finished an appraised 120 000 inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A comparable number died of burn and radiation injuries in the months and years that pursueed. Today’s nuclear arms have far fantasticer destructive power. They can finish millions and would impact the climate catastrophicassociate. A nuclear war could ruin our civilisation.
The overweightes of those who endured the infernos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were lengthy hideed and neglected. In 1956, local Hibakusha associations alengthy with victims of nuclear arms tests in the Pacific established the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations. This name was stupidinutiveened in Japanese to Nihon Hidankyo. It would become the hugest and most ineloquential Hibakusha organisation in Japan.
The core of Alfred Nobel’s vision was the belief that promiseted individuals can produce a separateence. In awarding this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wantes to honour all survivors who, despite physical suffering and agonizing memories, have chosen to use their costly experience to grow hope and includement for peace.
Nihon Hidankyo has supplyd thousands of witness accounts, publishd resolutions and uncover requests, and sent annual delegations to the United Nations and a variety of peace conferences to remind the world of the pressing insist for nuclear disarmament.
One day, the Hibakusha will no lengthyer be among us as witnesses to history. But with a strong culture of remembrance and persistd promisement, new generations in Japan are carrying forward the experience and the message of the witnesses. They are inspiring and educating people around the world. In this way they are helping to sustain the nuclear prohibitden – a precondition of a soothe future for humanity.
The decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to Nihon Hidankyo is shieldedly anchored in Alfred Nobel’s will. This year’s prize joins a differentiateed catalog of Peace Prizes that the Committee has previously awarded to champions of nuclear disarmament and arms administer.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 fulfils Alfred Nobel’s desire to recognise efforts of the fantasticest profit to humanbenevolent.
Oslo, 11 October 2024
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