Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel peace
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Year | Awardee(s) |
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2021 |
Awarded to: Maria Ressa (Manila, Philippines, 1963– ) and Dmitry Muratov [Kuybyshev (now Samara), USSR (now Russia), 1961– ] for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. |
2020 |
Awarded to: World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas, and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. |
2019 |
Awarded to: Abiy Ahmed Ali (Ethiopia, 1976– ) for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea. |
2018 |
Awarded jointly to: Denis Mukwege (Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1955– ) and Nadia Murad (Iraq, 1993– ) for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. |
2017 |
Awarded to: 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. |
2016 |
Awarded to: Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos (Columbia, 1951– ) for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220 000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people. |
2015 |
Awarded to: 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. |
2014 |
Awarded jointly to: Kailash Satyarthi (India, 1954– ) and Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan, 1997- ) for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. |
2013 |
Awarded to: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons. |
2012 |
Awarded to: European Union (EU) for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe. |
2011 |
Awarded jointly to: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia, 1938– ), Leymah Gbowee (Liberia, 1972– ), and Tawakkul Karman (Yemen, 1979– ) for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work. |
2010 |
Awarded to: Liu Xiaobo (China, 1955–2017) for his non-violent efforts toward fundamental human rights. |
2009 |
Awarded to: Barack H. Obama (U.S.A., 1961– ) for his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation. |
2008 |
Awarded to: Martti Ahtisaari (Finland, 1937– ) for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts. |
2007 |
Awarded jointly to: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Geneva, Switzerland, founded in 1988) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore, Jr. (U.S.A., 1948– ) for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundation for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
2006 |
Awarded jointly to: Muhammad Yunus, (Bangladesh, 1940– ) Grameen Bank (Dhaka, Bangladesh, founded in 1976) for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. |
2005 |
Awarded jointly to: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt, 1942– ) 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. |
2004 |
Awarded to: Wangari Maathai (Kenya, 1940–2011) for her contributions to sustainable development, democracy, and peace. |
2003 |
Awarded to: Shirin Ebadi (Iran, 1947– ) for her efforts for democracy and human rights. |
2002 |
Awarded to: Jimmy Carter (U.S.A. , 1924– ) 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. |
2001 |
Divided equally between: The United Nations and U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, (Ghana,1938–2018) for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world. |
2000 |
Awarded to: Kim Dae Jung, (South Korea, 1924–2009) 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. |
1999 |
Awarded to: Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents. |
1998 |
Divided equally between: John Hume (Northern Ireland, 1937–2020) and David Trimble (Northern Ireland, 1944– ) for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. |
1997 |
Divided equally between: International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams (U.S.A., 1950– ) for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines. |
1996 |
Divided equally between: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (East Timor, 1948– ) and José Ramos-Horta (East Timor, 1949– ) for their work toward a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor. |
1995 |
Divided equally between: Joseph Rotblat (England, 1908–2005) and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics. |
1994 |
Divided equally between: Yasser Arafat (Palestine, 1929–2004), Chairman of the PLO, and Shimon Peres (Israel, 1923–2016), Foreign Minister of Israel, and Yitzhak Rabin (Israel, 1922–1995), Prime Minister of Israel, for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East. |
1993 |
Divided equally between Nelson Mandela (South Africa, 1918–2013), Leader of the ANC, and Frederik Willem de Klerk (South Africa, 1936– ), President of the Republic of South Africa, for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa. |
1992 |
Awarded to: Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Guatemala, 1959– ) in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples. |
1991 |
Awarded to: Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma, 1945– ) for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights. |
1990 |
Awarded to: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev [Soviet Union (now Russia), 1931– ], President of the Soviet Union, for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community. |
1989 |
Awarded to: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama (Tibet, 1935– ), religious and political leader of the Tibetan people. |
1988 |
Awarded to: The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces. |
1987 |
Awarded to: Oscar Arias Sánchez (Costa Rica, 1941– ), President of Costa Rica, for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7, 1987. |
1986 |
Awarded to: Elie Wiesel (U.S.A., 1928–2016), author, humanitarian. |
1985 |
Awarded to: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (U.S.A.). |
1984 |
Awarded to: Desmond Mpilo Tutu (South Africa, 1931– ), bishop, former Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches. |
1983 |
Awarded to: Lech Walesa (Poland, 1943– ), founder of Solidarity, campaigner for human rights. |
1982 |
Divided equally between: Alva Myrdal (Sweden, 1902–1986), former Minister, diplomat and delegate to U.N. disarmament conferences and Alfonso García Robles (Mexico, 1911–1991), diplomat and campaigner for disarmament. |
1981 |
Awarded to: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva). |
1980 |
Awarded to: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (Argentina, 1931– ), architect, campaigner for human rights. |
1979 |
Awarded to: Mother Teresa (India, 1914–1997), leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. |
1978 |
Divided equally between: Mohammad Anwar Al-Sadat (Egypt, 1918–1981), President of Egypt, and Menachem Begin (Israel, 1913–1992), Prime Minister. Jointly negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel. |
1977 |
Awarded to: Amnesty International (London), a worldwide organization for the protection of the rights of prisoners of conscience. |
1976 |
Divided equally between: Betty Williams (Northern Ireland, 1943–2020) and Mairead Corrigan (Northern Ireland, 1944– ), co-founders of the Peace People. |
1975 |
Awarded to: Andrei Sakharov [Soviet Union (now Russia), 1921–1989], campaigner for human rights. |
1974 |
Divided equally between: Seán MacBride (Ireland, 1904–1988), president of the International Peace Bureau, Geneva; U.N. Commissioner for Namibia, and Eisaku Sato (Japan, 1901–1975), former Prime Minister. |
1973 |
Divided equally between: Henry A. Kissinger (U.S.A., 1923– ), former Secretary of State and Le Duc Tho (North Vietnam, 1910–1990) (declined the prize.) Jointly negotiated the Vietnam peace accord in 1973. |
1972 |
No prize awarded. |
1971 |
Awarded to: Willy Brandt (West Germany, 1913–1992), former Chancellor, initiator of West Germany's "Ostpolitik", embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and East Germany. |
1970 |
Awarded to: Norman Ernest Borlaug (U.S.A., 1914–2009), led research at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City. |
1969 |
Awarded to: The International Labour Organization (ILO) (Geneva). |
1968 |
Awarded to: René Cassin (France, 1887–1976), President of the European Court of Human Rights. |
1967 |
No prize awarded. |
1966 |
No prize awarded. |
1965 |
Awarded to: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (U.S.A.), established by the U.N. in 1946. An international aid organization. |
1964 |
Awarded to: Martin Luther King, Jr (U.S.A., 1929–1968), leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights. |
1963 |
Divided equally between: The International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva) and the League of Red Cross Societies. |
1962 |
Awarded to: Linus Carl Pauling (U.S.A., 1901–1994), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California. Campaigner especially for an end to nuclear weapons tests. |
1961 |
Awarded to: Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (Sweden, 1905–1961) (awarded the Prize posthumously), U.N. Secretary General. |
1960 |
Awarded to: Albert John Lutuli (South Africa, 1898–1967) (born in Southern Rhodesia), president of the South African liberation movement the African National Congress. |
1959 |
Awarded to: Philip John Noel-Baker (Great Britain, 1889–1982), member of Parliament. Campaigner for international cooperation and peace. |
1958 |
Awarded to: Georges Pire (Belgium, 1910–1969), Dominician, head of the aid organization for refugees L'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde. |
1957 |
Awarded to: Lester Bowles Pearson (Canada, 1897–1972), Foreign Minister, President of the UN General Assembly 1952. |
1956 |
No prize awarded. |
1955 |
No prize awarded. |
1954 |
Awarded to: The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (Geneva), an international aid organization established by the U.N. in 1951. |
1953 |
Awarded to: George Catlett Marshall (U.S.A.,1880–1959), General, President of the American Red Cross, former Secretary of State and of Defense, delegate to the U.N., originator of the Marshall Plan. |
1952 |
Awarded to: Albert Schweitzer (France, 1875–1965) (born in Kaysersberg, Alsace, then part of Germany), physician and missionary, founder of the Lambarene Hospital in Gabon. |
1951 |
Awarded to: Leon Jouhaux (France, 1879–1954), president of the trade union CGT-Force Ouvriere, President of the International Committee of the European Council, Vice President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Vice President of the World Federation of Trade Unions. |
1950 |
Awarded to: Ralph Bunche (U.S.A., 1904–1971), professor at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Director of the U.N. Division of Trusteeship, mediator in Palestine in 1948. |
1949 |
Awarded to: Baron Jonh Boyd Orr of Brechin (Great Britain, 1880–1971), physician, nutritionist, leading organizer and Director General or the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, President of the National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations. |
1948 |
No prize awarded. |
1947 |
Divided equally between: The Friends Service Council (United Kingdom) and The American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers) (U.S.A.). |
1946 |
Divided equally between: John Raleigh Mott (U.S.A., 1865–1955), chairman of the first International Missionary Council in 1910, president of the World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations, and Emily Greene Balch (U.S.A., 1867–1961), former Professor of History and Sociology, International President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. |
1945 |
Awarded to: Cordell Hull (U.S.A., 1871–1955), former Secretary of State, one of the initiators of the United Nations. |
1944 |
Awarded to: The International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneva). |
1943 |
No prize awarded. |
1942 |
No prize awarded. |
1941 |
No prize awarded. |
1940 |
No prize awarded. |
1939 |
No prize awarded. |
1938 |
Awarded to: The Nansen International Office fro Refugees (Office International Nansen pour les Refugies) (Geneva), an international aid organization established by Fridtjof Nansen in 1921. |
1937 |
Awarded to: Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil) (Great Britain, 1864–1958), writer, former Lord Privy Seal, founder and president of the International Peace Campaign. |
1936 |
Awarded to: Carlos Saavedra Lamas (Argentina, 1878–1959), Foreign Minister, President of the League of Nations, arbitrator in the dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia in 1935. |
1935 |
Awarded to: Carl von Ossietzky (Germany, 1889–1938), journalist, pacifist. |
1934 |
Awarded to: Arthur Henderson (Great Britain, 1863–1935), former Foreign Secretary. Chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1932–1934. |
1933 |
Awarded to: Sir (Ralph) Norman Angell (Lane) (Great Britain,1874–1967), writer. member of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations and the National Peace Council. Author of the book The Great Illusion, among others. |
1932 |
No prize awarded. |
1931 |
Divided equally between: Jane Addams (U.S.A., 1860–1935), sociologist, International President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and Nicholas Murray Butler (U.S.A., 1862–1947), president of Columbia University, promoter of the Briand-Kellogg Pact. |
1930 |
Awarded to: Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Soderblom (Sweden, 1866–1931), archbishop, leader of the ecumenical movement. |
1929 |
Awarded to: Frank Billings Kellogg (U.S.A., 1856–1937), former Secretary of State. Negotiated the Briand-Kellogg Pact. |
1928 |
No prize awarded. |
1927 |
Divided equally between: Ferdinand Edouard Buisson (France, 1841–1932), former Professor at the Sorbonne, Paris, founder and president of the League of Human Rights (Ligue des Droits de l'Homme), and Ludwig Quidde (Germany, 1858–1941), historian, professor honoris causa, member of the Bavarian Parliament, member of Germany's constituent assembly 1919, delegate to numerous peace conferences. |
1926 |
Divided equally between: Aristide Briand (France, 1862–1932), Foreign Minister, a negotiator of the Locarno Treaty and the Briand-Kellogg Pact and Gustav Stresemann (Germany, 1878–1929), former Chancellor, Foreign Minister, a negotiator of the Locarno Treaty. |
1925 |
Divided equally between: Sir (Joseph) Austen Chamberlain (Great Britain, 1863–1937), Foreign Minister, a negotiator of the Locarno Treaty, and Charles Gates Dawes (U.S.A., 1865–1951), Vice President of the U.S.A., chairman of the Allied Reparation Commission, and originator of the Dawes Plan. |
1924 |
No prize awarded. |
1923 |
No prize awarded. |
1922 |
Awarded to: Fridjtof Nansen (Norway, 1861–1930), explorer, scientist, and humanitarian. Norway's delegate to the League of Nations. Initiator of the Nansen Passport (for refugees). |
1921 |
Divided equally between: Karl Hjalmar Branting (Sweden, 1860–1925), Prime Minister, Swedish delegate to the Council of the League of Nations, and Christian Lous Lange (Norway, 1869–1938), Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (Burea interparlementaire), Brussels. |
1920 |
Awarded to: Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (France, 1851–1925), former Minister of Culture, Minister of Justice, and Prime Minister, President of Parliament, President of the Council of the League of Nations. |
1919 |
Awarded to: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (U.S.A., 1856–1924), President of the U.S.A., founder of the League of Nations. |
1918 |
No prize awarded. |
1917 |
Awarded to: The International Committee of the Red Cross (Comité International de la Croix-Rouge) Geneva. |
1916 |
No prize awarded. |
1915 |
No prize awarded. |
1914 |
No prize awarded. |
1913 |
Awarded to: Henri La Fontaine (Belgium, 1854–1943), member of the Belgian parliament (Senateur), president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau (Bureau International Permanent de la Paix), Bern. |
1912 |
Awarded to: Elihu Root (U.S.A., 1845–1937), former Secretary of State, initiator of several arbitration agreements. |
1911 |
Divided equally between: Tobias Michael Carel Asser (The Netherlands, 1838–1913), lawyer, Cabinet Minister. Initiator of the Conferences on International Private Law (Conferences de Droit International Prive) at the Hague, and Alfred Hermann Fried (Austria, 1864–1921), journalist, founder of the peace journal Die Waffen Nieder. |
1910 |
Awarded to: The Permanent International Peace Bureau (Bureau International Permanent de la Paix) (Bern). |
1909 |
Divided equally between: Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert (Belguim, 1829–1912), former Prime Minister, member of the Belgian parliament, member of the International Court of Arbitration (Court Internationale d'Arbitrage) at the Hague, and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d'Estournelles de ConstantBaron De Constant de Rebecque (France, 1852–1924), member of the French parliament (Senateur), founder and president of the French parliamentary group for international arbitration (Groupe Parlementaire de L'arbitrage International), founder of the Committee for the Defense of National Interests and International Conciliation |
1908 |
Divided equally between: Klas Pontus Arnoldson (Sweden,1844–1916), writer, former member of the Swedish Parliament, founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League, and Fredrik Bajer (Denmark, 1837–1922), member of the Danish parliament, honorary president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau (Bureau International Permanent de la Paix), Bern. |
1907 |
Divided equally between: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (Italy, 1833–1918), president of the Lombard League of Peace and Louis Renault (France, 1843–1918), Professor of International Law, the Sorbonne, Paris. |
1906 |
Awarded to: Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.A., 1858–1919), President of the U.S.A. Drew up the 1905 peace treaty between Russia and Japan. |
1905 |
Awarded to: Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, nee Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau (Austria, 1843–1914) (born in Prague, then part of Austria). Writer. honorary president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau (Bureau International Permanent de la Paix), Bern. Author of the book Die Waffen Nieder (Lay Down your Arms). |
1904 |
Awarded to: Institut de Droit International (Institute of International Law) (Gent, Belgium). |
1903 |
Awarded to: Sir William Randal Cremer (Great Britain, 1831–1908), member of Parliament, secretary of the International Arbitration League. |
1902 |
Divided equally between: Elie Ducommun (Switzerland, 1833–1906), honorary secretary of the Permanent International Peace Bureau, and Charles Albert Gobart (Switzerland, 1843–1914), Secretary General of the Interparliamentary Union (Union Interparlementaire), Bern, honorary secretary of the Permanent International Peace Bureau (Bureau International Permanent de la Paix), Bern. |
1901 |
Divided equally between: Jean Henri Dunant (Switzerland, 1828–1910), founder of the Red Cross (Comite International de la Croix-Rouge), Geneva, initiator of the Geneva Convention, and Frederic Passy (France, 1822–1912), founder and president of the first French peace society (Ligue Internationale et Permanente de la Paix, later known as Societe Francaise pour L'arbitrage Entre Nations), and The League of the Red Cross Societies (Geneva). |