EXPLAINER: How Nobel Peace Prize nominations come about

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2020 file photo, former candidate for Georgia Governor Stacey Abrams speaks during a rally for then Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., in Duluth, Ga. Belarusian opposition figures, Hong Kong-pro-democracy activists, the global Black Lives Matter movement, a jailed Russian opposition leader and two former White House senior advisers are among this year's nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020 file photo, Avraham Berkowitz, Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations, left, and President Donald Trump's White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, look at each other during a press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, after Trump announced that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have agreed to establish full diplomatic ties as part of a deal to halt the annexation of occupied land sought by the Palestinians for their future state. Belarusian opposition figures, Hong Kong-pro-democracy activists, the Black Lives Matter movement, a jailed Russian opposition leader and two former White House senior advisers are among this year’s nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The 2021 deadline has passed and some of those who nominated people have spoken up. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

FILE - In this Saturday June 6, 2020 file photo, thousands of people demonstrate in Cologne, Germany, to protest against racism and the recent killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, USA. Belarusian opposition figures, Hong Kong-pro-democracy activists, the Black Lives Matter movement, a jailed Russian opposition leader and two former White House senior advisers are among this year’s nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The 2021 deadline has passed and some of those who nominated people have spoken up. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, July 30, 2020 file photo, Maria Kolesnikova, right, a representative of Viktor Babariko, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, center, candidate for the presidential elections,and wife of non-registered candidate Valery Tsepkalo and Veronika Tsepkalo, left, gesture during a meeting in support of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in Minsk, Belarus. Belarusian opposition figures, Hong Kong-pro-democracy activists, the Black Lives Matter movement, a jailed Russian opposition leader and two former White House senior advisers are among this year’s nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The 2021 deadline has passed and some of those who nominated people have spoken up. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 file photo, pro-democracy protesters flash their smartphone lights as they gather on a street in Hong Kong. Belarusian opposition figures, Hong Kong-pro-democracy activists, the Black Lives Matter movement, a jailed Russian opposition leader and two former White House senior advisers are among this year’s nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The 2021 deadline has passed and some of those who nominated people have spoken up. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

FILE - In this Friday, June 19, 2020 file photo, a protester holds a sign that reads "BLACK LIVES MATTER" during a Juneteenth rally outside the Brooklyn Museum, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Juneteenth commemorates when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free 155 years ago. Belarusian opposition figures, Hong Kong-pro-democracy activists, the Black Lives Matter movement, a jailed Russian opposition leader and two former White House senior advisers are among this year’s nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. The 2021 deadline has passed and some of those who nominated people have spoken up. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)