On October 20 , 2017 , Euronews reported that , through research with German broadcaster ZDF into Nobel Prize Foundation index funds investments , German campaign group Facing Finance had determined that the Peace Prize award was funded in part by Foundation investments in companies contributing to nuclear weapons programs , including Textron , Lockheed Martin and Raytheon , and urged ICAN not to accept the 9 million SEK award money . According to Agence France-Presse , the head of the Nobel Institute Olav Njolstad was confronted on October 26 , 2017 with the revelation confirmed by environmental group The Future in Our Hands , and Foundation director Lars Heikensten said the following day that " a t the latest , by March next year 2018 we will have no investment in anything that is connected with any kind of production which is classified as connected with nuclear weapons . " A day ahead of the December 10th award ceremony at Oslo City Hall , ICAN installed outside the Norwegian Parliament building 1,000 red and blue paper cranes made by children in Hiroshima . After the first wartime use of nuclear weapons , in 1946 , the Peace Prize began to recognize nuclear disarmament efforts : In the award presentation speech on December 10 , 2017 , Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen recalled that " twelve Peace Prizes have been awarded , in whole or in part , " to honor " efforts against the proliferation of nuclear weapons and for nuclear disarmament , " and included 2009 Nobelist Barack Obama
2009 Nobelist Barack Obama
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