Most prestigious prize in the world. Good morning. The need for international solidarity. Cooperation. More. Than ever then the. Committee has decided to have war the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 the World Food Program for its efforts to hunger. For its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict affected areas and for acting as a driving force in the efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict the World Food Programme is the Worlds Largest humanitarian organization at the same hunger and promoting Food Security last year the w f p provided assistance to close to 1000000 people in 88 countries who are victims of acute should in security and. In 2015 eradicating hunger was adopted as one of you ends Sustainable Development goals the w f p is the un primary instrument for realizing this go in recent years as the situation has taken and they get to turn. In 201935 1000000 people suffered from acute hunger the highest number in many years most of the increase was caused by war and Armed Conflict. The coronavirus pandemic has contributed to a strong upsurge in the number of victims of hunger in the world. In countries such as yemen the democratic republic of congo nigeria and south sudan and bikie enough hours so the combination of violent conflict and pandemic has led to a dramatic rise in the number of People Living on the brink of starvation. In the face of the pandemic the World Food Programme has demonstrated an impressive ability to intensify its efforts as the organization itself has stated until the day we havent seen food is the best vaccine against chaos. The world is in danger of experiencing a hunger crisis is of inconceivable proportions if the World Food Program and other Food Assistance organizations do not receive the Financial Support they have requested the link between hunger and Armed Conflict is a vicious circle. War and conflict can cause Food Insecurity and hunger just as hunger and Food Insecurity can cause latent conflicts to flare up and trick of the use of violence we will never achieve the goal of serial hunger unless we also put an end to war and Armed Conflicts. The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to emphasize that providing assistance to increase Food Security in those terms that prevents hunger but can also help to improve prospects for stability and peace the World Food Program has taken the lead in combining humanitarian work with peace efforts salut pioneering projects in south America Africa and asia the World Food Program was an active participant in that it will matic process that culminated in may 28th in the Un Security Councils unanimous adoption of resolution 2417 which for the 1st time explicitly addresses the link between conflict and hunger the Security Council also underscored u. N. Member states obligation to help and shore of Food Assistance reaches those in need and condemned the use of starvation as a method of warfare with this years award the no we didnt know ben the committee wishes to turn their eyes of the word towards the millions of people who suffer from of face the threat of hunger. The work of the World Food Program plays a key role in multilateral cooperation in making Food Security an instrument of peace and has made as strong contribution towards mobilizing un Member States to combat the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict the organization contributes daily to advancing the fraternity of nations referred to in Alfred Nobels will as the uns largest Specialized Agency the World Food Program is a modern the of the Peace Congress is the Nobel Peace Prize is intend to promote. The World Food Program the work of the World Food Program to the benefit of human kind is. That all nations of the world should be able to endorse and support thank you very much. And there we were listening to the chair of the Norwegian Nobel CommitteeBarrett Reese and sen announce the Nobel Peace Prize winner for 2020 it was the World Food Program for she said efforts to combat hunger especially in conflict areas were for more on this lets cross live to our diplomatic james bays hes at the United Nations and hes interviewed many of the previous winners for aljazeera and james it was always going to be huge guessing game wasnt the field of some 318. 00 it can do that this year was the w. S. P. A strong contender. Well of course what well never know for 50 years is who the other contenders were because its a very secretive process and they only release the details of who we all all the contenders were 50 years later one of the other organizations that have been talked about of course was the World Health Organization and it is clearly this award is the award the Nobel Peace Prize in the year of code that theyve decided the committee to go for an International Organization that has been involved in the covert effort but have stig clear of the World Health Organization because of the controversy going straight into the route between the u. S. And china in particular the trumpet ministration of whether the World Health Organization was doing a good job or whether it was far too close to china so instead theyve chosen one of the main humanitarian agencies of the United Nations the World Food Program which is up to its efforts backed by the rest of the u. N. To get to food to people around the world at this time of pandemic and one of the challenges of course has been the logistical challenge because the Airline Industry is not operating the way it normally does both commercial delivery of goods and passenger delivery and thats been a real challenge for the whole u. N. System the World Food Program and. Delivering food is the lead part of the u. N. For air transport station and it was said to me recently the World Food Program has probably become the Biggest Airline in africa. Right now because of their own aircraft their own un airlift aircraft that the World Food Program run but also also all the other aircraft they are now contracting to get their food to africa and other parts of the world and you heard her talk about some of them for example yemen the place on earth that the u. N. Agencies are most worried about its also worth telling you in this year of cohered that the World Food Program is led by a gentleman called dave. Beazley well this will be a very good end to a year that started pretty badly for him i remember talking to him and davos in january and he was worried about then about the threat to the world and the problems facing the world then of course coded came in. In the months from each atlee after that i missed the beazley himself caught a bad case of cohered and was quite unwell from co very early on while he got covert at the beginning of the year now his organization is being praised for its work in this year hes a very forthright unusual un official because of the way he talks he talks in a very brash way remember the World Food Program is one part of the United Nations system theres seems to be always led by an american David Beasley was appointed by the trumpet ministration even though donald trump always wants to get the Nobel Peace Prize himself this is one prize he may well applaud because its a republican politician in his background who is who is leading the organization that got the Nobel Peace Prize in fact he is he was from 19529929 the governor of South Carolina of course this isnt an award to him sometimes weve had awards to organizations and a leader simply to the organization but the organization has long been one of the primary humanitarian organizations of the u. N. Doing good work around the world and most people are praising the effort its made at this particularly difficult time for the world as theyre throwing it forward to the ceremony and indeed the interview that you and our colleagues finally do with the winner will it be David Beasley wholl be accepting the prize and doing the interview or do you think well see other aspects of the organization forward. Well i think thats a question for entirely for the the World Food Program and also its worth telling you the logistics of the ceremony still being discussed because obviously you cannot have the normal nobel ceremony that you have there in the Oslo City Hall because of cove it you have a large tightly packed audience in the also city hall when the when the ceremony takes place and then. An interview which has been done in recent years by aljazeera takes place afterwards in the hall but i think it is likely youll see a lot of mr beazley in the coming hours and on the 10th of december when this is when this is awarded he is the leader of the World Food Program but im sure an organization like the World Food Program will want to project its workers around the world the doing the work in the field mr beazley himself certainly before cove it was one of the most travelled un officials always on the road always speaking to people rarely hes told me at home with his family and his wife in in rome where the world who. Program is based out of where the World Food Program is based so yes im sure youre going to see mr beazley but i think its likely they will see others at all levels in this organization and im sure theyll be wanting to emphasize the field work of the World Food Program do all around the world absolutely ok james many thanks for bringing us the fast reactions there to the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize the World Food Program lets go to kristin and diana he is the director of the International Capital an institute of peace and he joins us via skype from boston lane a good to have you with us your response to the winner. I think it is. Interesting its not one of the. Leading candidates in terms of people betting of who might win i do think however it is a very interesting price and a very Interesting Organisation it was clear to me that it would be either some some candidates from the multilateral perspective dignitas multilateralism right now is in crisis and being challenged in many ways or my other bet was somebody a woman this intially woman among other reasons because this year marks the 28th and the bursary of the un Security Council resolutions 1325. 00 on women peace and security which was a landmark resolution now that watered highlights another un Security Council resolution 2417. 00 which as they say for the 1st time makes explicit the link between conflict and hunger and thats very interesting they have been very clear on making that the link that conflict and hunger are interrelated one leads to the theyre in a vicious cycle and i think therefore the prize and its a very relevant topic for peace building at the same time it addresses and issue that affects millions and millions of people and which today in the 21st century is still a scanner that so many people in the world south or from hunger how well a prize like this the. Winning a prize like this how it bolster the cause for the World Food Program. It in 2 ways it will bolster the semantic issue of hunger which remains. Economic developments on many other ways and at the same time it will highlight a u. N. Agency which has been mentioned also is an desperately needed for more funding and that therefore should be a secondary relevant contribution and it is saying that its a years eve can see how the prize will benefit an individual but how does the actual prize itself go to a whole organization well that if you look at their 100 awards that have been 100 prizes have been awarded over the last century actually 24 of them have been awarded to organisations so thats quite normal and if we look at the candidates this year one 3rd of the 318 candidates where organisations so thats not a surprise actually and i think it makes sense more and more we do know that social change for the better social justice is not that what the work of one individual. Its the effort of many people in many institutions many are going to say shims to meet makes perfect sense therefore that more and more it will be organisations and networks that theyre awarded rather than individuals. It resounds and said that there is a danger of a hunger crisis happening of inconceivable for portions if theres not more funds for the w f p i mean were always hearing of stories of people in need of people at risk of being in need unless huge amounts of money donated to the job f. P. Its always struggling to find those funds do you think this will help it get that money. I think it will definitely contribute to raising more funding it will also contribute to sophisticated the debate a little bit its not so much money for handing out food for people in need in identifying the reasons why are there so many people who dont have food and that is i think even the more interesting question and it is very clearly linked in this award to the fact of Armed Conflict and i think yemen is probably the most clear case for that and therefore it calls for the responsibility of any State Government or armed actor to to d towards the people who suffer from the political decisions they take when they do decide to go to war and i think thats extremely important ok christian im aware thank you very much for joining us there from boss lane and on the 1st reactions to this award sister mind you if youre just joining us the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Organization thats going to have a morgan our correspondent who joins us live from khartoum because sudan have or has been a huge recipient of help from the World Food Program hasnt it. Now we have seen obviously the forgive the world who were grabbing operates the areas of conflict one of them the sudan where we are right now its now they were the 1st Aid Organization that was able to access. Areas of conflict like South Kordofan and land from the sudanese capital in foxholes theyve been trying to reach areas where people apple affected by the conflict where people have been affected by the Economic Situation as well laura weve spoken to people who are on the ground in refugee camps in displacement camps and they say that most of them rely on coming from the will who were going to be able to survive some of them i think that the reason is that if he gets in compared to the beginning. Conflicts in areas such as the corpse has reduced because it has left because the at the idea is that the conflict in those areas have also reduced but they see that the reason why there are a lot of the reason why theyre able to be able to continue on with their lives even in the states think is because of that theyre receiving so obviously the World Food Program has played a role in terms of helping those whove been displaced by conflict and by Climate Change as well as by sudans economic crisis now and that doesnt mean that its easy for the World Food Program to be able to access those in need would seem. Like the recent flooding that its had an impact on seeing people getting displays that weve seen the World Food