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• 1901 Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1901 Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, and Frédéric Passy, leader of the French peace movement — the first Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1902 Ducommun and Gobat win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1902 Élie Ducommun and Albert Gobat, leaders of the International Peace Bureau and the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
• 1903 Randal Cremer wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1903 William Randal Cremer, co-founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and champion of international arbitration.
• 1904 The Institute of International Law wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1904 The Institute of International Law, for its work on the codification of international law — the first organisation to win.
• 1905 Bertha von Suttner wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1905 Bertha von Suttner, author of Lay Down Your Arms — the first woman to win the Peace Prize.
• 1906 Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt, for mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
• 1907 Moneta and Renault win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1907 The Italian peace activist Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and the French jurist Louis Renault.
• 1908 Arnoldson and Bajer win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer, Scandinavian advocates of neutrality and arbitration.
• 1909 Beernaert and d'Estournelles de Constant win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1909 Auguste Beernaert and Paul d'Estournelles de Constant, delegates to the Hague peace conferences.
• 1910 The International Peace Bureau wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1910 The International Peace Bureau, linking peace societies across the world.
• 1911 Asser and Fried win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1911 Tobias Asser, initiator of the Hague conferences on private international law, and the Austrian pacifist Alfred Fried.
• 1912 Elihu Root wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1912 Elihu Root, for treaties of arbitration as US Secretary of State. Awarded in 1913 as the 1912 prize.
• 1913 Henri La Fontaine wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1913 Henri La Fontaine, president of the International Peace Bureau.
• 1917 The International Committee of the Red Cross wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1917 The International Committee of the Red Cross, for its work for prisoners of war during the First World War — the only Peace Prize of the war years.
• 1919 Woodrow Wilson wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1919 US President Woodrow Wilson, for founding the League of Nations. Awarded in 1920 as the 1919 prize.
• 1920 Léon Bourgeois wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1920 Léon Bourgeois, first president of the Council of the League of Nations.
• 1921 Branting and Lange win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1921 The Swedish prime minister Hjalmar Branting and the Norwegian internationalist Christian Lange, for their work in the League of Nations.
• 1922 Fridtjof Nansen wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1922 The polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen, for his work for refugees and prisoners of war, and the Nansen passport.
• 1925 Chamberlain and Dawes win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1925 Austen Chamberlain for the Locarno Treaties, and Charles Dawes for the Dawes Plan on German reparations. Awarded in 1926 as the 1925 prize.
• 1926 Briand and Stresemann win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1926 Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann, the French and German foreign ministers behind the Locarno Treaties.
• 1927 Buisson and Quidde win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1927 Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde, for Franco-German reconciliation.
• 1929 Frank Kellogg wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1929 Frank Kellogg, US Secretary of State, for the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war. Awarded in 1930 as the 1929 prize.
• 1930 Nathan Söderblom wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1930 Archbishop Nathan Söderblom, leader of the ecumenical movement.
• 1931 Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1931 Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, and Nicholas Murray Butler, champion of the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
• 1933 Norman Angell wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1933 Norman Angell, author of The Great Illusion. Awarded in 1934 as the 1933 prize.
• 1934 Arthur Henderson wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1934 Arthur Henderson, president of the Geneva Disarmament Conference.
• 1935 Carl von Ossietzky wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1935 The German journalist and pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, then a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. Awarded in 1936 as the 1935 prize — Hitler then forbade Germans to accept Nobel Prizes.
• 1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, for mediating the end of the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia — the first Latin American laureate.
• 1937 Robert Cecil wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1937 Robert Cecil, one of the architects of the League of Nations.
• 1938 The Nansen International Office for Refugees wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1938 The Nansen International Office for Refugees, continuing Fridtjof Nansens work.
• 1944 The International Committee of the Red Cross wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1944 The International Committee of the Red Cross, for its work during the Second World War — its second Peace Prize. Awarded in 1945 as the 1944 prize.
• 1945 Cordell Hull wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1945 Cordell Hull, US Secretary of State, for his role in founding the United Nations.
• 1946 Emily Greene Balch and John Mott win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1946 Emily Greene Balch of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, and John Mott of the YMCA.
• 1947 The Quakers win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1947 The Friends Service Council and the American Friends Service Committee, for Quaker relief work during and after the war.
• 1949 John Boyd Orr wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1949 John Boyd Orr, first director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
• 1950 Ralph Bunche wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1950 Ralph Bunche, for mediating the 1949 Arab-Israeli armistice — the first Black Nobel laureate.
• 1951 Léon Jouhaux wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1951 The French trade unionist Léon Jouhaux.
• 1952 Albert Schweitzer wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1952 Albert Schweitzer, for his philosophy of reverence for life and his hospital in Lambaréné. Awarded in 1953 as the 1952 prize.
• 1953 George C. Marshall wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1953 George C. Marshall, for the Marshall Plan that rebuilt post-war Europe.
• 1954 The UN High Commissioner for Refugees wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1954 The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, for its work for European refugees. Awarded in 1955 as the 1954 prize.
• 1957 Lester Pearson wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1957 Lester Pearson, for the UN peacekeeping force that ended the Suez Crisis.
• 1958 Georges Pire wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1958 The Dominican friar Georges Pire, for his work for refugees.
• 1959 Philip Noel-Baker wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1959 Philip Noel-Baker, campaigner for international disarmament.
• 1960 Albert Lutuli wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1960 Albert Lutuli, president of the African National Congress, for his non-violent struggle against apartheid. Awarded in 1961 as the 1960 prize.
• 1961 Dag Hammarskjöld wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1961 UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, awarded posthumously after his death in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia.
• 1962 Linus Pauling wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1962 Linus Pauling, for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing — his second unshared Nobel Prize. Awarded in 1963 as the 1962 prize.
• 1963 The Red Cross win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1963 The International Committee of the Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies, on the movements centenary.
• 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Recognised for nonviolent civil rights leadership King received the prize for his leadership of the nonviolent campaign against racial segregation in the United States, becoming the youngest laureate at the time. He donated the prize money to the civil rights movement.
• 1965 UNICEF wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1965 UNICEF, the United Nations Childrens Fund.
• 1968 René Cassin wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1968 René Cassin, a principal author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• 1969 The International Labour Organization wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1969 The International Labour Organization, on its 50th anniversary.
• 1970 Norman Borlaug wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, for high-yield crops against world hunger.
• 1971 Willy Brandt wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, for his Ostpolitik of reconciliation with Eastern Europe.
• 1973 Kissinger and Le Duc Tho awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Lê Đức Thọ for negotiating the Paris Peace Accords to end US involvement in the Vietnam War. The award was one of the most controversial in Nobel history.
• 1974 MacBride and Satō win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1974 Seán MacBride, human rights campaigner, and Eisaku Satō, the Japanese prime minister who adopted the non-nuclear principles.
• 1975 Andrei Sakharov wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1975 Andrei Sakharov, physicist and human rights campaigner. The Soviet authorities refused to let him travel to Oslo.
• 1976 Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1976 Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, founders of the Northern Ireland Peace People. Awarded in 1977 as the 1976 prize.
• 1977 Amnesty International wins Nobel Peace Prize Human rights organisation honoured Amnesty International was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1977 in recognition of its campaigns against torture and for the rights of political prisoners worldwide.
• 1978 Sadat and Begin win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1978 Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, for the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel.
• 1979 Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Recognition for work among Calcutta's poor Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on 10 December 1979 for her work with the destitute and dying in Calcutta. She asked that the traditional prize banquet be cancelled and its funds given to the poor instead. The award brought international attention to her charitable order.
• 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, for defending human rights in Argentina under military rule.
• 1981 The UN High Commissioner for Refugees wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1981 The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees — its second Peace Prize, for work with refugees in Asia and Africa.
• 1982 Myrdal and García Robles win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1982 Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles, for their work on disarmament at the United Nations.
• 1983 Lech Walesa Awarded Nobel Peace Prize Solidarity leader honored for nonviolent resistance Polish trade union leader Lech Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding and leading the Solidarity movement against communist rule. Fearing he would not be allowed to return, he did not travel to Oslo to accept it in person. He later became Poland's first post-communist president in 1990.
• 1984 Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1984 Bishop Desmond Tutu, for his non-violent leadership against apartheid.
• 1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, founded by American and Soviet doctors.
• 1986 Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1986 Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of Night.
• 1987 Óscar Arias wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1987 Costa Rican President Óscar Arias, for his peace plan for Central America.
• 1988 The UN Peacekeeping Forces win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1988 The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces.
• 1989 The 14th Dalai Lama wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1989 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet.
• 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize For his leading role in the peace process Celebrated abroad, resented at home, where the shops were empty.
• 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi, for her non-violent struggle for democracy in Burma, then under house arrest.
• 1992 Rigoberta Menchú wins the Nobel Peace Prize Guatemala A K'iche' woman who had lost most of her family in the violence was awarded the prize in the five hundredth year after Columbus, putting indigenous rights on the world's front pages.
• 1993 Mandela and de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize Joint honor for negotiating South Africa's transition from apartheid Nelson Mandela and South African President F.W. de Klerk jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize for their work ending apartheid and negotiating a peaceful transition to multiracial democracy. The award came months before South Africa's first democratic elections in April 1994. Both men had led rival sides through years of negotiation despite ongoing political violence.
• 1994 Arafat, Peres and Rabin win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, for the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians.
• 1995 Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1995 Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, for efforts to eliminate nuclear arms.
• 1996 Belo and Ramos-Horta win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1996 Bishop Carlos Belo and José Ramos-Horta, for working towards a peaceful solution in East Timor.
• 1997 The International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1997 The International Campaign to Ban Landmines and its coordinator Jody Williams, for the treaty banning anti-personnel mines.
• 1998 John Hume and David Trimble win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1998 John Hume and David Trimble, for the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.
• 1999 Doctors Without Borders wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 1999 Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), for its humanitarian work on several continents.
• 2000 Kim Dae-jung wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2000 South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, for democracy and reconciliation with North Korea.
• 2001 The United Nations and Kofi Annan win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2001 The United Nations and its Secretary-General Kofi Annan, for work for a better organised and more peaceful world.
• 2002 Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter, for decades of work for peaceful solutions, democracy and human rights.
• 2003 Shirin Ebadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2003 Shirin Ebadi, for her work for democracy and human rights, especially of women and children in Iran.
• 2004 Wangari Maathai wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2004 Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement — the first African woman to win the Peace Prize.
• 2005 The IAEA and Mohamed ElBaradei win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2005 The International Atomic Energy Agency and its director Mohamed ElBaradei, for preventing the military use of nuclear energy.
• 2006 Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2006 Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, for microcredit to fight poverty.
• 2007 Al Gore and IPCC awarded Nobel Peace Prize Honored for work on climate change awareness Former US Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to build and disseminate knowledge about man-made climate change. The award raised the profile of climate policy worldwide.
• 2008 Martti Ahtisaari wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2008 Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, for resolving international conflicts from Namibia to Aceh and Kosovo.
• 2009 Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize Prize cited efforts to strengthen international diplomacy The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize less than a year into his term, citing his efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation. The choice proved controversial given his short time in office. Obama accepted the award in Oslo that December.
• 2010 Liu Xiaobo wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2010 Liu Xiaobo, for his non-violent struggle for human rights in China. He was in prison and represented in Oslo by an empty chair.
• 2011 Sirleaf, Gbowee and Karman win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, for their non-violent struggle for the safety and rights of women.
• 2012 The European Union wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2012 The European Union, for six decades of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.
• 2013 The OPCW wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2013 The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague, for its efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.
• 2014 Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize Pakistani and Indian activists honored for children's rights work The Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian children's rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi. At 17, Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel laureate in history. The award recognized their work against the suppression of children and for children's right to education.
• 2015 The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2015 The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, for building a pluralistic democracy after the Jasmine Revolution.
• 2016 Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2016 Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, for his efforts to end more than 50 years of civil war.
• 2017 ICAN wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2017 The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, for its work towards the treaty banning nuclear weapons.
• 2018 Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2018 Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
• 2019 Abiy Ahmed wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2019 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, for ending the border conflict with Eritrea.
• 2020 The World Food Programme wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2020 The UN World Food Programme, for its efforts to combat hunger.
• 2021 Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2021 The journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, for safeguarding freedom of expression.
• 2022 Bialiatski, Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties win the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2022 Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, the Russian organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, for documenting war crimes and human rights abuses.
• 2023 Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2023 Narges Mohammadi, for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran. She was in prison at the time.
• 2024 Nihon Hidankyo wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2024 Nihon Hidankyo, the organisation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors, for its efforts towards a world free of nuclear weapons.
• 2025 María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2025 The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, for her work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela.
• 2026 Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize Nobel Peace Prize 2026 Navi Pillay, for her work for peace and international law, including making sure that war crimes and genocide are prosecuted. The South African judge presided over the Rwanda tribunal and served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.