We’re proud to announce that JA Worldwide has been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. JA Uganda is a member of JA Worldwide.
Nobel Peace Prize nominations may be received from heads of state, certain elected officials and cabinet members, university professors in select fields, past Nobel laureates, and other notable individuals, as laid out by the Nobel Nominating Committee. We are thrilled to have been given evidence that JA Worldwide was nominated again this year. The organization was first nominated in 2022—in recognition of JA’s contribution to economic empowerment, prosperity, and peace—and has been nominated every year since.
JA Worldwide is one of the largest youth-serving organizations in the world, combining deep local roots with a global network that spans 100+ countries. We delivered more than 19 million student learning experiences last year, creating a pipeline of skilled, entrepreneurial, and ethically minded young leaders, ready to fuel industries, drive innovation, create social stability, and strengthen economies.
Through our century of impact, JA has operated in big cities, rural communities, and everywhere in between, including in areas of political instability, violence, and war. Even in refugee camps, students not only build resilience in the face of trauma and chaos, but also develop hope for their futures as job creators, leaders, and innovators who actively contribute to the peace of their communities.
As economic instability grows around the world, Asheesh Advani, CEO of JA Worldwide, recognizes the challenges: “The next decade will demand a workforce that is not just skilled, but adaptable and entrepreneurial. With AI transforming the world, millions of young people face the risk of being left behind—unemployable, unproductive, and disheartened—leaving economies to stagnate and societies to falter. JA prepares young people for the road ahead, providing skills-based education and empowering a shift in mindset from ‘I can’t’ to ‘I can.’”
Karen Reddington, Chair of JA Worldwide, added: “Education and economic empowerment lead to prosperity. Without prosperity for all communities, peace is not sustainable.”
Between 1901 and 2024, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 142 laureates, including 111 individuals and 31 organizations. Among those 31 organizations is another nonprofit from the annual list of the top ten social-good organizations, Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. UNICEF, another youth-serving organization, was awarded the prize in 1965, after being nominated for a number of years. Last year, Japanese atomic-bomb survivor’s group Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness of the devastating effects of nuclear weapons.
