Nobel Prizes
in Peace Prizes
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 97 times to 130 Nobel
Laureates between 1901 and 2016, 104 individuals and 26 organizations. Since
the International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize three times (in 1917, 1944 and 1963), and the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
two times (in 1954 and 1981), there are 23 individual organizations which have been
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Click on the links to get more information.
2016
Juan Manuel Santos: “for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s
more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”
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”
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”
2013
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW): “for its extensive
efforts to eliminate chemical weapons”
2012
European Union (EU): “for over six decades contributed to the
advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”
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”
2010
Liu Xiaobo: “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human
rights in China”
2009
Barack H. Obama: “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen
international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”
2008
Martti Ahtisaari: “for his important efforts, on several
continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international
conflicts”
2007
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert
Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.: “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”
2006
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank: “for their efforts to create economic and social
development from below”
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”
2004
Wangari Muta Maathai: “for her contribution to sustainable
development, democracy and peace”
2003
Shirin Ebadi: “for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has
focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children”
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”
2001
United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan: “for their work for a
better organized and more peaceful world”
2000
Kim Dae-jung: “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
Médecins Sans Frontières: “in recognition of the organization’s pioneering
humanitarian work on several continents”
1998
John Hume and
David Trimble: “for
their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland”
1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody
Williams: “for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel
mines”
1996
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta: “for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the
conflict in East Timor”
1995
Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on
Science and World Affairs: “for their
efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics
and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms”
1994
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin: “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle
East”
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”
1992
Rigoberta Menchú Tum: “in recognition of her work for social justice
and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous
peoples”
1991
Aung San Suu Kyi: “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and
human rights”
1990
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev: “for his leading role in the peace
process which today characterizes important parts of the international
community”
1989
The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
1988
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987
Oscar Arias Sánchez: “for his work for peace in Central America,
efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year”
1986
Elie Wiesel
1985
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1984
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
1983
Lech Walesa
1982
Alva Myrdal and
Alfonso García Robles
1981
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1980
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1979
Mother Teresa
1978
Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin
1977
Amnesty International
1976
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
1975
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
1974
Seán MacBride and
Eisaku Sato
1973
Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho
1972
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money for 1972 was
allocated to the Main Fund.
1971
Willy Brandt
1970
Norman E. Borlaug
1969
International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)
1968
René Cassin
1967
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
section.
1966
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was
allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1965
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
1964
Martin Luther King Jr.
1963
Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of
the Red Cross) and Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross
Societies)
1962
Linus Carl Pauling
1961
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
1960
Albert John Lutuli
1959
Philip J. Noel-Baker
1958
Georges Pire
1957
Lester Bowles Pearson
1956
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
section.
1955
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was
allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1954
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1953
George Catlett Marshall
1952
Albert Schweitzer
1951
Léon Jouhaux
1950
Ralph Bunche
1949
Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin
1948
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
section.
1947
Friends Service Council (The Quakers) and American
Friends Service Committee (The Quakers)
1946
Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott
1945
Cordell Hull
1944
Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of
the Red Cross)
1943
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
section.
1942
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
section.
1941
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
section.
1940
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
section.
1939
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
section.
1938
Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International
Office for Refugees)
1937
Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne
Cecil)
1936
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
1935
Carl von Ossietzky
1934
Arthur Henderson
1933
Sir Norman Angell (Ralph
Lane)
1932
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was
allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1931
Jane Addams and
Nicholas Murray Butler
1930
Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom
1929
Frank Billings
Kellogg
1928
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was
allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1927
Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde
1926
Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann
1925
Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes
1924
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was
allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1923
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was
allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1922
Fridtjof Nansen
1921
Karl Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange
1920
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
1919
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
1918
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was
allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1917
Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of
the Red Cross)
1916
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was
allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1915
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was
allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1914
Note: No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated
to the Special Fund of this prize section.
1913
Henri La Fontaine
1912
Elihu Root
1911
Tobias Michael Carel Asser and Alfred Hermann Fried
1910
Bureau international permanent de la Paix (Permanent International
Peace Bureau)
1909
Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul
Henri Benjamin Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de
Rebecque
1908
Klas Pontus
Arnoldson and
Fredrik Bajer
1907
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault
1906
Theodore Roosevelt
1905
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von
Chinic und Tettau
1904
Institut de droit international (Institute of International
Law)
1903
William Randal Cremer
1902
Élie Ducommun and
Charles Albert Gobat
1901
Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy
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