We have wonderful news: JA Worldwide has been nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize! This is an incredible honor for the entire JA network and the result of your hard work.
Our nominator was struck by JA Worldwide’s incredible global reach, our success in delivering economic empowerment to youth at scale, and our ability to find unity in diversity. For centuries, unemployment and poverty have led to political instability, violence, and war. By economically empowering youth on all continents (even during this pandemic), JA serves a conduit for peace.
Special thanks to our Senior Leadership Team for their unshakeable belief that we achieve more when we work together as one JA network. But also to every member of the team, who works every day to increase our scale and impact so that even more young people around the world can benefit from the skillset we teach and the mindset we instill.
Some further details:
Nominations may only be received from heads of state and certain elected officials, university professors in selected fields, past Nobel laureates, and a few other notable individuals.
The Nobel Committee has selected individuals as winners significantly more often than organizations, but there are some relevant organizations to mention for context. For example, another NGO from the top 10 NGO Advisor list, Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. UNICEF, another youth-serving NGO, was awarded the prize in 1965, after being nominated for several years.
Being nominated puts one under consideration for when the time is right, and it is not unusual to be nominated for multiple years before one is selected.
Asheesh Advani, CEO of JA Worldwide, shared his perspective in response to the nomination, providing a statement: “Peace is only possible when youth in all countries and regions have economic empowerment. JA Worldwide is honored to receive this nomination and will continue our work to enable all young people to have the skillset and mindset to build thriving communities. Our primary hope for solving the world’s most complex problems rests in the young people of today who will be the leaders of tomorrow.”
