Saturday, 8 October 2011

List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates

As of 2011, the Peace Prize has been awarded to 101 individuals and 20 organizations. Fifteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, more than any other Nobel Prize. Only two recipients have won multiple Prizes: the International Committee of the Red Cross has won three times (1917, 1944, and 1963) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has won twice (1954 and 1981). There have been 19 years since its creation in which the Peace Prize was not awarded, more times than any other Nobel Prize.


1901 Henry Dunant Switzerland For his role in founding the International Committee of the Red Cross
Frédéric Passy France "For being one of the main founders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and also the main organizer of the first Universal Peace Congress"




1902 Élie Ducommun Switzerland "For his role as the first honorary secretary of the International Peace Bureau"
Charles Albert Gobat "For his role as the first Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union"




1903 William Randal Cremer United Kingdom "For his role as the the 'first father' of the Inter-Parliamentary Union"




1904 Institute of International Law Belgium "For its efforts as an unofficial body to formulate the general principles of the science of international law"




1905 Bertha von Suttner Austria-Hungary For authoring Lay Down Your Arms and contributing to the creation of the Prize




1906 Theodore Roosevelt United States "For his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war and for his interest in arbitration, having provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case"




1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Italy "For his work as a] key leader of the Italian peace movement"
Louis Renault France "For his work as a leading French international jurist and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague"




1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson Sweden "For his work as founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League"
Fredrik Bajer Denmark "For being the foremost peace advocate in Scandinavia, combining work in the Inter-Parliamentary Union with being the first president of the International Peace Bureau"




1909 Auguste Beernaert Belgium "For being a representative to the two Hague conferences, and a leading figure in the Inter-Parliamentary Union"
Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant France "For combined diplomatic work for Franco-German and Franco-British understanding with a distinguished career in international arbitration"




1910 Permanent International Peace Bureau Switzerland "For acting as a link between the peace societies of the various countries"




1911 Tobias Asser Netherlands "[For being a] member of the Court of Arbitration as well as the initiator of the Conferences on International Private Law"
Alfred Fried Austria "For his work as founder of the German Peace Society"




1912 Elihu Root A United States "For his strong interest in international arbitration and for his plan for a world court"




1913 Henri La Fontaine Belgium "For his work as head of the International Peace Bureau"




1914 Not awarded
1915
1916




1917 International Committee of the Red Cross Switzerland "[For undertaking] the tremendous task of trying to protect the rights of the many prisoners of war on all sides of World War I, including their right to establish contacts with their families"


1918 Not awarded




1919 Woodrow Wilson United States "[F]or his crucial role in establishing the League"




1920 Léon Bourgeois France "[For his participation] in both the Hague Conferences of 




1899 and 1907" and for his work towards "what became the League to such an extent that he was frequently called its 'spiritual father'"




1921 Hjalmar Branting Sweden "For his work in the League of Nations"
Christian Lange Norway "For his work as the first secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee" and "the secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union"




1922 Fridtjof Nansen Norway "For his humanitarian work in Russia" and "on behalf of the League to repatriate a great number of prisoners of war"




1923 Not awarded
1924




1925 Austen Chamberlain A United Kingdom For work on the Locarno Treaties
Charles G. Dawes A United States "For [work on] the Dawes Plan for German reparations which was seen as having provided the economic underpinning of the Locarno Pact of 1925"




1926 Aristide Briand France For work on the Locarno Treaties
Gustav Stresemann Germany




1927 Ferdinand Buisson France For contributions to Franco-German popular reconciliation"
Ludwig Quidde Germany




1928 Not awarded
1929 Frank B. Kellogg[A] United States "[F]or the Kellogg-Briand pact, whose signatories agreed to settle all conflicts by peaceful means and renounced war as an instrument of national policy"




1930 Nathan Söderblom Sweden "For his efforts to involve the churches not only in work for ecumenical unity, but also for world peace"




1931 Jane Addams United States "For her social reform work" and "leading the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"
Nicholas Murray Butler "For his promotion of the Briand-Kellogg pact" and for his work as the "leader of the more establishment-oriented part of the American peace movement"




1932 Not awarded




1933 Norman Angell A United Kingdom For authoring The Great Illusion and for being a "supporter of the League of Nations as well as an influential publicist and educator for peace in general"




1934 Arthur Henderson United Kingdom "For his work for the League, particularly its efforts in disarmament"




1935 Carl von Ossietzky B Germany "For his struggle against Germany's rearmament"




1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas Argentina "For his mediation of an end to the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia"




1937 Robert Cecil United Kingdom For his work with the League of Nations




1938 Nansen International Office for Refugees Switzerland For its work in aiding refugees




1939 Not awarded
1940
1941
1942
1943




1944 International Committee of the Red Cross Switzerland "For the great work it has performed during the war in behalf of humanity"




1945 Cordell Hull United States "For his fight against isolationism at home, his efforts to create a peace bloc of states on the American continents, and his work for the United Nations Organization"




1946 Emily Greene Balch United States "Formerly Professor of History and Sociology; Honorary International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom"
John Raleigh Mott "Chairman, International Missionary Council; President, World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations"




1947 Friends Service Council United Kingdom "compassion for others and the desire to help them"
American Friends Service Committee United States




1948 Not awarded because "there was no suitable living candidate."




1949 The Lord Boyd-Orr United Kingdom "Physician; Alimentary Politician; Prominent organizer and Director, General Food and Agricultural Organization; President, National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations"




1950 Ralph Bunche United States "Professor, Harvard University Cambridge, MA; Director, division of Trusteeship, U.N.; Acting Mediator in Palestine, 1948"




1951 Léon Jouhaux France "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, member of the ILO Council, delegate to the United Nations"




1952 Albert Schweitzer France "Missionary surgeon; Founder of Lambaréné (République de Gabon)"




1953 George Catlett Marshall United States "General President American Red Cross; Former Secretary of State and of Defense; Delegate U.N.; Originator of the "Marshall Plan""




1954 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Switzerland "An international relief organization founded by the U.N. in 1951"




1955 Not awarded
1956




1957 Lester Bowles Pearson Canada "former Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada; former President of the 7th Session of the United Nations General Assembly"; "for his role in trying to end the Suez conflict and to solve the Middle East question through the United Nations."




1958 Georges Pire Belgium "Father in the Dominican Order; Leader of the relief organization for refugees "L'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde""




1959 Philip J. Noel-Baker United Kingdom "Member of Parliament; lifelong ardent worker for international peace and co-operation"




1960 Albert Lutuli South Africa "President of the African National Congress," "was in the very forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa."




1961 Dag Hammarskjöld C Sweden "Secretary General of the U.N.," awarded "for strengthening the organization."




1962 Linus Carl Pauling United States "for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing"




1963 International Committee of the Red Cross Switzerland 
League of Red Cross Societies




1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. United States Campaigner for civil rights, "first person in the Western world to have shown us that a struggle can be waged without violence."




1965 United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) United Nations "An international aid organization." 




1966 Not awarded
1967




1968 René Cassin France "President of the European Court for Human Rights"




1969 International Labour Organization United Nations 




1970 Norman E. Borlaug United States "International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center;" "for his contributions to the "green revolution" that was having such an impact on food production particularly in Asia and in Latin America."




1971 Willy Brandt West Germany "Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany; for West Germany's Ostpolitik"


1972 Not awarded




1973 Henry Kissinger United States "For the 1973 Paris agreement intended to bring about a cease-fire in the Vietnam war and a withdrawal of the American forces"
Le Duc Tho North Vietnam




1974 Seán MacBride Ireland "President of the International Peace Bureau; President of the Commission of Namibia." "For his strong interest in human rights: piloting the European Convention on Human Rights through the Council of Europe, helping found and then lead Amnesty International and serving as secretary-general of the International Commission of Jurists"
Eisaku Satō Japan "Prime Minister of Japan," "for his renunciation of the nuclear option for Japan and his efforts to further regional reconciliation"




1975 Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Soviet Union "for his struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations"




1976 Betty Williams United Kingdom "Founde[s of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)"
Mairead Corrigan




1977 Amnesty International United Kingdom "for protecting the human rights of prisoners of conscience"




1978 Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat Egypt "for the Camp David Agreement, which brought about a negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel"
Menachem Begin Israel




1979 Mother Teresa India "Founder of Missionaries of Charity"




1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel Argentina "Human rights leader;" "founded non-violent human rights organizations to fight the military junta that was ruling his country (Argentina)."




1981 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees United Nations "An international relief organization founded by the U.N. in 1951"




1982 Alva Myrdal Sweden "for their magnificent work in the disarmament negotiations of the United Nations, where they have both played crucial roles and won international recognition"
Alfonso García Robles Mexico




1983 Lech Walesa Poland "Founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights"[78]




1984 Desmond Tutu South Africa "Bishop of Johannesburg; former Secretary General, South African Council of Churches"




1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War United States For "authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare. The committee believes that this in turn contributes to an increase in the pressure of public opposition to the proliferation of atomic weapons and to a redefining of priorities, with greater attention being paid to health and other humanitarian issues."




1986 Elie Wiesel United States "Chairman of "The President's Commission on the Holocaust""


1987 Óscar Arias 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 Peace-Keeping Forces United Nations "for their efforts that have made important contributions towards the realization of one of the fundamental tenets of the United Nations"




1989 Tenzin Gyatso,
14th Dalai Lama Tibet "In his struggle for the liberation of Tibet [he] consistently has opposed the use of violence. He has instead advocated peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people."




1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Soviet Union President of the Soviet Union, "for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community"




1991 Aung San Suu Kyi Burma "for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights"[




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




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




1994 Yasser Arafat Palestine "to honour a political act which called for great courage on both sides, and which has opened up opportunities for a new development towards fraternity in the Middle East."
Yitzhak Rabin Israel
Shimon Peres




1995 Joseph Rotblat United Kingdom "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms"
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Canada




1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo East Timor "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor."
José Ramos-Horta




1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines Switzerland "for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines"
Jody Williams United States




1998 John Hume United Kingdom "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland"
David Trimble United Kingdom




1999 Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland "in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents"




2000 Kim Dae Jung 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"




2001 United Nations United Nations "for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"
Kofi Annan Ghana




2002 Jimmy Carter United States "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 Iran "for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children."




2004 Wangari Muta Maathai Kenya "for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"




2005 International Atomic Energy Agency United Nations "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"
Mohamed ElBaradei Egypt




2006 Muhammad Yunus Bangladesh "for advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, especially women, through their pioneering microcredit work"
Grameen Bank




2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change United Nations "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"
Al Gore United States




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




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




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




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

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