Will it be the President, the rehabilitated dictator or the Pope who will win the Nobel Peace prize?

The Norwegian Nobel Committee is set to announce the winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday morning.

Pope Francis, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are among the contenders for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize following their historic peace talks in June.

Several prominent organisations are also considered candidates to succeed 2017 winners, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

The Nobel Prize in peace has been awarded since 1901.

Last year’s winner was the Switzerland-based anti-nuclear weapons advocacy group International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

On Monday, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet gave this year’s medicine award to cancer researchers James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo.

On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave this year’s physics award jointly to Donna Strickland and Gerard Mourou for their work with high-intensity, ultra-short laser pulses, and Arthur Ashkin for his work with optical tweezers.

On Wednesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave this year’s chemistry prize to three scientists making advances in cancer research — Frances Arnold, George Smith and Gregory Winter.

Apart from Pope Francis, US President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, there are 328 nominees for the prize, of which 216 are individuals and 115 are groups, according to the Nobel committee. It’s the second-highest number of candidates ever, after the year 2016.

Other favourites include Carles Puigdemont, the UNHCR and Saudi blogger Raif Badawi.

The event is scheduled to take place around 11 a.m. CEST at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway.