List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates
Laureates

List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates

Section Title: Laureates
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Year	Laureate	Country	Rationale

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 'first father' of the Inter-Parliamentary Union"

1904	-	Institute of International Law	Belgium	"[F]or its efforts as an unofficial body to formulate the general principles of the science of international law"

1905	-	Bertha von Suttner	Austria-Hungary	For writing 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-Hungary	"[For his work as] founder of the German Peace Society"

1912	-	Elihu Root	United States	"[F]or 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 due to World War I.

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 due to World War I.

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

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	"[F]or 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	"[For] his work in aiding the millions in Russia struggling against famine" and "his work for the refugees in Asia Minor and Thrace"

1923	Not awarded

1924

1925	-	Sir Austen Chamberlain	United Kingdom	For work on the Locarno Treaties

-	Charles G. Dawes	United States	"[F]or [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	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	"[F]or his efforts to involve the churches not only in work for ecumenical unity, but also for world peace"

1931	-	Jane Addams	United States	"[F]or 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	-	Sir Norman Angell	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	"[F]or his work for the League, particularly its efforts in disarmament"

1935	-	Carl von Ossietzky	Germany	"[For his] struggle against Germany's rearmament"

1936	-	Carlos Saavedra Lamas	Argentina	"[F]or his mediation of an end to the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia"

1937	-	The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood	United Kingdom	For his work with the League of Nations

1938	-	Nansen International Office for Refugees	League of Nations	For its work in aiding refugees

1939	Not awarded due to World War II.

1940

1941

1942

1943

1944	-	International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland	"[F]or 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	"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	-	The Quakers (represented by Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee)	"compassion for others and the desire to help them"

1948	Not awarded because "there was no suitable living candidate." (A tribute to the recently assassinated Gandhi in India.)

1949	-	The Lord Boyd-Orr	United Kingdom	"Physician; Alimentary Politician; Prominent organizer and Director, General Food and Agriculture 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	"Missionary surgeon; Founder of Lambaréné (République de Gabon)"

1953	General George C. Marshall, official military photo, 1946.JPEG	George C. Marshall	United States	"General President American Red Cross; Former Secretary of State and of Defense; Delegate U.N.; Originator of [the] 'Marshall Plan'"

1954	-	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	United Nations	"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 helping to end the Suez conflict and trying to solve the Middle East question through the United Nations."

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

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

1960	-	Albert Lutuli	South Africa (Born in Southern Rhodesia)	"President of the African National Congress," "was in the very forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa."

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

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

1963	-	International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland	For their work in the protection of human rights in the ICRC's 100 years of existence.

-	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." King spent his time working in various areas of the civil rights movement; from equal education to economic disenfranchisement of minorities.

1965	-	United Nations Children's 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 (Born in Germany)	"For the 1973 Paris agreement intended to bring about a cease-fire in the Vietnam war and a withdrawal of the American forces"

-	Lê Đức Thọ	Vietnam (North)

1974	-	Seán MacBride	Ireland (Born in France)	"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 Sakharov	Soviet Union	"[for his] struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations"

1976	-	Betty Williams	United Kingdom	"Founder[s] of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)"

-	Mairead Corrigan

1977	Amnesty International	"[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 Poland (Born in Russia)

1979	-	Mother Teresa	India (Born in Skopje, now North Macedonia)	"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	-	Office of the 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 Wałęsa	Poland	"Founder of Solidarność; campaigner for human rights"

1984	-	Desmond Tutu	South Africa	"... as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa.

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 (Born in Romania)	"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	India (Born in 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 Gorbachev	Soviet Union	General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and 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 Menchu Tum.JPG	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 (Born in Egypt)	"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	Israel (Born in Poland)

1995	-	Joseph Rotblat	Poland	"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	Ireland	"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, Photo: Harry Wad	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"

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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 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

-	Tawakkul Karman	Yemen

2012	-	European Union	European Union	"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	Netherlands	"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons."

2014	-	Kailash Satyarthi	India	"for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"

-	Malala Yousafzai	Pakistan

2015	-	Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet	Tunisia	"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	Colombia	"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"

2017	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons	Switzerland	"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	Democratic Republic of the Congo	"for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict"

-	Nadia Murad	Iraq

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AFSC of the Quakers received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947.

final_sentence: AFSC of the Quakers received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947.