2025 Nobel Peace Prize Considerations
The grassroots organizers for over 700 Emergency Response Rooms are among the frontrunners for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. If awarded, this honor would help fund the critical aid these ERRs are delivering in Sudan and raise the profile of mutual aid groups globally. around the world.
The ERRs have received much-deserved recognition over the past two years. They are also funded by the donations of generous foundations, philanthropies, and individuals across the world.
What are emergency response rooms?
Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs) are grassroots volunteer groups that emerged in Sudan after the revolution of 2019. They originated as Resistance Committees (RCs) who started organizing methods of civil disobedience in 2013, and have remained pillars of their communities ever since.
Today, amid large swaths of government collapse and civil war, ERRs provide vital civil services to their neighbors. Throughout Sudan, they organize:
hospitals and healthcare
education for children and adults
communal kitchens
evacuation assistance
refugee support
In September 2025, the director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Nina Graeger, announced her picks for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. For the second year in a row, the Sudanese Emergency Response Rooms were included in her list of favorites.
The impact of these Emergency Response Rooms on the lives of Sudanese citizens cannot be understated.
As Mark Leon Goldberg explained, “The network of Emergency Response Rooms and the governance structure they have created are at once delivering humanitarian assistance and promoting national cohesion. This is peacebuilding amidst a brutal civil war. Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms may be the one thing holding the country together as men with guns tear it apart.”
Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms Favored for 2025 Nobel Prize
Additional Acknowledgments for the Sudanese Emergency Response Rooms
On October 1st, Right Livelihood announced the winners for their 2025 Right Livelihood Laureates, sometimes called “the Alternative Nobel Prize”. The Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan were among those to receive the award, along with other esteemed organizations from around the world that are working to improve their communities every day.
“In the midst of famine, war, and the collapse of public services, ERRs are a civic backbone, offering not only survival but a blueprint for Sudan’s recovery and a resilient civil society.”
You can read more of their in-depth reporting and watch the press conference of their announcement here.
How can you support Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan?
Foundations like the Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition help fund these ERRs and ensure access to the resources they need. They network with organizers in Sudan to get .95 cents of every dollar donated to the ERRs within two weeks of your donation, no matter where in the world you are.
Donate today to help ERRs deliver life-saving humanitarian aid.
