Who Are the Frontrunners?

A grassroots civil coordination network operating in the midst of Sudan’s ongoing conflict, the Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) have earned international recognition for delivering aid and protecting civilians in the absence of functioning state infrastructure.

Humanitarian groups and observers have praised their community-based model, and with growing pressure for the Nobel Committee to honour non-Western, non-state peace efforts, ERRs now sit top of the market.

Having previously been nominated for the prize, largely around Israel–UAE diplomatic efforts, Donald Trump is again in the frame. 

His ‘Board of Peace’, launched at Davos, is being seen by some as an image-rebuilding project amid a polarising U.S. election year.