The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for how its call for systemic change has spread around the world. In his argument, Norwegian MP Petter Eide said the move has also forced countries outside the US to fight the racism present within their societies.
"I find that one of the main challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of growing conflict based on inequality. "Black Lives Matter has become a very important movement around the world to fight racial injustice," said Eide (via Guardian).
Eide added that another thing that impressed him about the Black Lives Matter movement was the way it has been able to mobilize people from all walks of life, not just the African-American community, not just oppressed people, it has been a movement broad, in a way that was different from its predecessors. ”
The Black Lives Matter movement was founded in 2013 in the US as a response to the innocence of the man who shot Trayvon Martin. The movement gained wider recognition in 2014 following protests over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and was the source of a series of global protests in 2020 following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor .
Nobel Peace Prize nominations are accepted by any politician serving at a national level. The winner is chosen in October and the awards ceremony is scheduled for December 10th. There were more than 300 nominations for the award last year, which was won by the World Food Program.
