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Nobel  Peace  Prizes
[est. 1901]

short history laureates, 1901-1950 laureates, 1951-2000 laureates, 2001-today Alfred Nobel [1833-96] image gallery links

"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
— George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950]

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list of Nobel Peace Prize laureates at Wikipedia

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Laureates,  1901-1950

1901 • Jean Henry Dunant [1828-1910]   and Frédéric Passy [1822-1912]  

1902 • Élie Ducommun [1833-1906]    and Charles Albert Gobat   

1903 • Sir William Randal Cremer [1828-1908]   

1904 • Institut de Droit International (Institute of International Law) [est. 1873]

1905 • Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita Kinsky von Suttner   
she was Alfred Nobel's secretary circa 1876 and a lifelong friend

  1906 • Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919]

1907 • Ernesto Teodoro Moneta [1833-1918]   and Louis Renault [1843-1918]   

1908 • Klas Pontus Arnoldson [1844-1916]   and Fredrik Bajer [1837-1922]   

1909 • Auguste Marie François Beernaert [1829-1912]   
and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque [1852-1924]   

1910 • Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau) [est. 1891]

1911 • Tobias Michael Carel Asser [1838-1913]   and Alfred Hermann Fried [1864-1921]   

  1912 • Elihu Root [1845-1937]

1913 • Henri La Fontaine [1854-1943]   

1914 • not awarded

1915 • not awarded

1916 • not awarded

1917 • Comité International de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) [est. 1863]

1918 • not awarded

  1919 • Thomas Woodrow Wilson

1920 • Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois [1851-1925]   

1921 • Karl Hjalmar Branting [1860-1925]   and Christian Lous Lange [1869-1938]   

1922 • Fridtjof Nansen [1861-1930]   

1923 • not awarded

1924 • not awarded

  1925 • Charles Gates Dawes [1865-1951] and Sir Austen Chamberlain [1863-1937]   

1926 • Aristide Briand [1862-1932]   and Gustav Stresemann [1878-1929]   

1927 • Ferdinand Buisson [1841-1932]   and Ludwig Quidde [1858-1941]   

1928 • not awarded

  1929 • Frank Billings Kellogg [1856-1937]

1930 • Lars Olof Jonathan 'Nathan' Söderblom [1866-1931]   

  1931 • Jane Addams [1860-1935] and Nicholas Murray Butler [1862-1947]

1932 • not awarded

1933 • Sir Norman Angell [1872-1967]   

1934 • Arthur Henderson [1863-1935]   

1935 • Carl von Ossietzky [1889-1938]   

1936 • Carlos Saavedra Lamas [1878-1959]   

1937 • Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood [1864-1958]   

1938 • Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)

1939 • not awarded

1940 • not awarded

1941 • not awarded

1942 • not awarded

1943 • not awarded

1944 • Comité International de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) [est. 1863]

  1945 • Cordell Hull [1871-1955]

  1946 • Emily Greene Balch [1867-1961] and John Raleigh Mott [1865-95]

1947 • Friends Service Council (The Quakers) [est. 1927]
and American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers) [est. 1917]

1948 • not awarded

1949 • Lord John Boyd Orr, Baron of Brechin Mearn [1880-1971]   

  1950 • Ralph Bunche [1903-71]

Laureates,  1951-2000

1951 • Léon Jouhaux [1879-1954]]   

1952 • Albert Schweitzer [1875-1965]     

  1953 • Gen. George C. Marshall [1880-1959]

1954 • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) [est. 1950]

1955 • not awarded

1956 • not awarded

1957 • Lester Bowles Pearson [1897-1972]   

1958 • Georges 'Dominique' Pire [1910-69]   

1959 • Baron Philip J. Noel-Baker [1889-1982]   

1960 • Albert John 'Mvumbi' Lutuli [1898-1967]   

1961 • Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld [1905-61]   

  1962 • Dr. Linus Pauling [1901-94]
Pauling is the only person to win two non-shared Nobel Prizes; he and Marie Curie are the only people to win a Nobel Prize in two different fields

1963 • Comité International de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) [est. 1863] and
Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies) [est. 1919]

  1964 • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-68]

1965 • United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) [est. 1946]

1966 • not awarded

1967 • not awarded

1968 • René Cassin [1887-1976]   

1969 • International Labour Organization (I.L.O.) [est. 1919]

  1970 • agronomist Norman E. Borlaug [1914-2009]

1971 • Willy Brandt [1913-92]   

1972 • not awarded

  1973 • Henry A. Kissinger [b. 1923] and Le Duc Tho [1911-90] of North VietNam   

1974 • Seán MacBride [1904-88]    and Eisaku Sato [1901-75]   

1975 • Soviet dissident Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov   

1976 • Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan   

1977 • Amnesty International

1978 • Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt     and Menachem Begin of Israel   

1979 • Mother Teresa [1910-97] of Calcutta   

1980 • Adolfo Pérez Esquivel [b. 1931] of Argentina   

1981 • Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

1982 • Alva Myrdal [1902-86]   
1982 • Alfonso García Robles [1911-91] of Mexico   

1983 • Lech Walesa [b. 1943] of Poland   

1984 • Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu [1931-2021] of South Africa   
Anglican archbishop and civil rights campaigner was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent activism in the anti-apartheid movement

1985 • International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

  1986 • Romanian-American writer & activist Elie Wiesel [1928-2016]

1987 • Óscar Arias Sánchez [b. 1940] of Costa Rica   
"for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year"

1988 • United Nations Peacekeeping Forces

1989 • The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) [b. 1935] in exile   

1990 • Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev of Russia   
"for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community"

1991 • Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma/Myanmar
"for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights"   

1992 • Rigoberta Menchú Tum of Guatemala   
"in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples"

1993 • Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk   
"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"

1994 • Yasser Arafat (Palestine)   
and Shimon Peres (of Israel) and Yitzhak Rabin (of Israel)   
"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East"

1995 • Joseph Rotblat [1908-2005]    and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs [est. 1955]
"for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugwash_Conferences_on_Science_and_World_Affairs

1996 • Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta of East Timor   
"for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Filipe_Ximenes_Belo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ramos-Horta

  1997 • International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams of USA
"for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel landmines"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Williams

1998 • John Hume and Baron William David Trimble (both of Northern Ireland)   
"for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hume
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Trimble

1999 • Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents"

2000 • Kim Dae-jung [1924-2009] of South Korea   
"for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dae-jung

Laureates,  2001 to today

2001 • United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan [1938-2018] of Ghana   
"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"

  2002 • Jimmy Carter
"for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights,
and to promote economic and social development"

2003 • Shirin Ebadi of Iran   
"for her efforts for democracy and human rights; she has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_Ebadi

2004 • Wangari Muta Maathai [1940-2011] of Kenya   
"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy, and peace"

2005 • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei
"for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure
that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way"

2006 • Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
"for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"

  2007 • Al Gore, Jr. and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)   
"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations
for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"

2008 • Martti Ahtisaari
"for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"

  2009 • Barack H. Obama
"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

2010 • Liu Xiaobo
"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"

2011 • Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakkol Karman
"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"

2012 • European Union (EU)
"for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe"

2013 • Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons"

2014 • Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
"for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"

2015 • National Dialogue Quartet
"for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011"

2016 • Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, President of Colombia
"for his resolute efforts to bring [his] country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end"

2017 • International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
"for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for
its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons"

2018 • Denis Mukwege of Congo   
Yazidi sex slave survivor Nadia Murad of Iraq   
"for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict"

2019 • Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed   
"for his efforts to end his country's long-running border conflict with Eritrea"
another leading contender was Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg

2020 • The World Food Programme [est. 1961]

2021 • Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov    and Philippine journalist Maria Ressa   
"for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace"
Ressa said in her acceptance speech: “Without facts, you can't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality,
no democracy, and it becomes impossible to deal with the existential problems of our times: climate, coronavirus, now, the battle for truth.”
Ressa in 2012 co-founded the news website Rappler; Muratov in 1993 co-founded the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.

2022 • human rights activist Ales Bialiatski of Belarus   
the Russian human rights organization Memorial [est. 1989]   
the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties [est. 2007]   
"for an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human rights abuses, and the abuse of power" in their countries . . . "They have for many years
promoted the right to criticize power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ales_Bialiatski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_(society)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Center_for_Civil_Liberties

2023 • imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi [b. 1972] of Iran   
Prize awarded "for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all"
currently jailed in Tehran, she has been a prisoner for most of the past two decades
entry at Wikipedia

2024 • anti-nuclear weapons group Nihon Hidankyo [est. 1956] of Japan   
survivors of U.S. atomic bombings formed 'Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations' (Nihon Gensuibaku Higaisha Dantai Kyögi-kai),
shortened to Nihon Hidankyo in 1956; the group has been pressuring the Japanese government to improve support of the victims and lobbying governments
for the abolition of nuclear weapons; Prize awarded "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony
that nuclear weapons must never be used again".
entry at Wikipedia • official website (English or Japanese)

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