The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to one individual and two organisations which advocate human rights and civil liberty.

[1] The citation given by the Norwegian Nobel Committee were the following: The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries.

[3] The choice of the committee to award the prize while Russia and Ukraine were at war (with Belarus giving logistical support to the Russian army) was also criticised.

[3] According to the Center for Civil Liberties (in a press conference on 8 October 2022) "In no way should this award sound like an old narrative about fraternal nations" but "this story is about resistance to common evil.

[5] Prior to his 2022 Ales Bialiatski's Nobel Peace Prize, he was nominated five times unsuccessfully.