Nobel Prizes in Peace Prizes

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