The Peace Prize
Each year, we hope to guide people’s attention to a candidate who stands out in the pursuit of peace, in accordance with the will of the founder of the Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel.
LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS
Peace Prize 2025
has been awarded to:
FRANCESCA ALBANESE
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the
occupied Palestinian territories
of Lay Down Your Arms
Milano
December 2025
FRANCESCA ALBANESE
is the person who, in accordance with Alfred Nobel’s will, has “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations and for the abolition or reduction of standing armies as well as for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
Francesca Albanese has forcefully and unwaveringly worked against Israel's full-scale war on the occupied Palestinian territories, in particular Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. She has confronted Israel’s systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity in a truly global outreach. Further, she has brought governments, international organisations and people’s groups together to underline the responsibility of the world at large to act and to stop arming, enabling, and profiting from Israel's ongoing criminal actions.
But first of all, Albanese has lifted up the very core of the United Nations’ Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide for all member states to act, to prevent and punish those who are perpetrating, complicit in, and profiting from, these atrocious crimes, and not merely passively awaiting a possible future verdict in the international courts.
Francesca Albanese has proven herself to be an exceptionally worthy
and true “Champion for Peace.”
Mai-Bente Bonnevie
reports on the genocide in gaza:
'Important and powerful' - Raja Shehadeh
Read Now (free eBook):
- Yanis Varoufakis
Published as Israel’s genocide in Palestine enters its third year, A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness compiles UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s damning reports on Israel’s conduct in Palestine since October 2023.
