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A Committee of Five | A
Political Prize | Why a Norwegian
Nobel Committee? | The Independence
of the Committee | From Nomination
to Ceremony & Nominators and Campaigns | The
Norwegian Nobel committee has decided...
Working under guidance of the committee's secretary, its permanent
advisers, or advisers specially called upon for their knowledge
of specific candidates, report on the nominees. Most of the work
goes into reviewing the qualifications of the candidates on the
committee's "shortlist", i.e. those whom it has found most suitable.
The advisers do not directly evaluate nominations: that is the committee's
responsibility. Neither do they normally give any explicit recommendations
as to whether the prize should be awarded to certain candidates
or not. However, from their descriptions of the nominees it is often
possible to conclude their basic attitude. Today, the composition
of the Committee's shortlist and the advisers as well as reports
from earlier years, are important sources to the history of the
Nobel Peace Prize. Until 1903, the committee secretary, Christian
L. Lange, wrote all reports on the candidates. Only when the Norwegian
Nobel Institute was established in 1904 did the secretary get assistance
from permanent part-time advisers. For many years there were three
such advisers, normally scholars in international law, history,
and political economy. Since the 1980s, most of the Committee's
four permanent advisers have been professors either in history or
in political science at the University
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