The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel awards started by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. From March 1901, it has been presented yearly to those who have “done the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”. According to Alfred Nobel’s will, the winner is elected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, a five-member committee appointed by the Parliament of Norway. From 1990, the award is presented on 10 December in Oslo City Hall annually. The Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee give the Nobel Peace Prize in the presence of the King of Norway. It is given on 10 December annually. The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm. The Nobel winner gets a diploma, a medal and a document confirming the prize amount. Alfred Nobel born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers. He was a engineer, chemist and inventor who amassed a fortune during his lifetime, most of it from his 355 inventions of which dynamite is the most famous.
List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates–
Year | Name | Country |
2018 | Denis Mukwege | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Nadia Murad | Iraq | |
2017 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | Switzerland |
2016 | Juan Manuel Santos | Colombia |
2015 | Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet | Tunisia |
2014 | Kailash Satyarthi | India |
Malala Yousafzai | Pakistan | |
2013 | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | Netherlands |
2012 | European Union | European Union |
2011 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Liberia |
Leymah Gbowee | Liberia | |
Tawakkul Karman | Yemen | |
2010 | Liu Xiaobo | China |
2009 | Barack Obama | United States |
2008 | Martti Ahtisaari | Finland |
2007 | Al Gore | United States |
2006 | Muhammad Yunus | Bangladesh |
Grameen Bank | Bangladesh | |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | United Nations | |
2005 | International Atomic Energy Agency | United Nations |
Mohamed ElBaradei | Egypt | |
2004 | Wangari Muta Maathai | Kenya |
2003 | Shirin Ebadi | Iran |
2002 | Jimmy Carter | United States |
2001 | United Nations | United Nations |
Kofi Annan | Ghana | |
2000 | Kim Dae-Jung | South Korea |
1999 | Medecins Sans Frontieres | Switzerland |
1998 | John Hume | Ireland |
David Trimble | United Kingdom | |
1997 | International Campaign to Ban Landmines | Switzerland |
Jody Williams | United States | |
1996 | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo | East Timor |
Jose Ramos-Horta | East Timor | |
1995 | Joseph Rotblat | Poland |
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | Canada | |
1994 | Yasser Arafat | Palestine (Born in Egypt) |
Yitzhak Rabin | Israel | |
Shimon Peres | Israel (Born in Poland) | |
1993 | Nelson Mandela | South Africa |
Frederik Willem de Klerk | South Africa | |
1992 | Rigoberta Menchu | Guatemala |
1991 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Burma |
1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet Union |
1989 | Tenzin Gyatso | India (Born in Tibet) |
1988 | United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces | United Nations |
1987 | Oscar Arias | Costa Rica |
1986 | Elie Wiesel | United States (Born in Romania) |
1985 | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | United States |
1984 | Desmond Tutu | South Africa |
1983 | Lech Walesa | Poland |
1982 | Alva Myrdal | Sweden |
Alfonso Garcia Robles | Mexico | |
1981 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | United Nations |
1980 | Adolfo Perez Esquivel | Argentina |
1979 | Mother Teresa | India (Born in Skopje, now Republic of Macedonia) |
1978 | Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat | Egypt |
Menachem Begin | Israel/Poland (Born in Russia) | |
1977 | Amnesty International | United Kingdom |
1976 | Betty Williams | United Kingdom |
Mairead Corrigan | United Kingdom | |
1975 | Andrei Sakharov | Soviet Union |
1974 | Sean MacBride | Ireland (Born in France) |
Eisaku Sato | Japan | |
1973 | Henry Kissinger | United States (Born in Germany) |
Le Dec Tho | Vietnam (North) | |
1972 | Not awarded | |
1971 | Willy Brandt | West Germany |
1970 | Norman E. Borlaug | United States |
1969 | International Labour Organization | United Nations |
1968 | Rene Cassin | France |
1967 | Not awarded | |
1966 | Not awarded | |
1965 | United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) | United Nations |
1964 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | United States |
1963 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland |
League of Red Cross Societies | Switzerland | |
1962 | Linus Pauling | United States |
1961 | Dag Hammarskjold | Sweden |
1960 | Albert Lutuli | South Africa (Born in Southern Rhodesia) |
1959 | Philip Noel-Baker | United Kingdom |
1958 | Dominique Pire | Belgium |
1957 | Lester Bowles Pearson | Canada |
1956 | Not awarded | |
1955 | Not awarded | |
1954 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
United Nations |
1953 | George C. Marshall | United States |
1952 | Albert Schweitzer | France |
1951 | Leon Jouhaux | France |
1950 | Ralph Bunche | United States |
1949 | The Lord Boyd-Orr | United Kingdom |
1948 | Not awarded because “there was no suitable living candidate. (A tribute to the recently assassinated Gandhi in India) | |
1947 | The Quakers (represented by Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee) | |
1946 | Emily Greene Balch | United States |
John Raleigh Mott | United States | |
1945 | Cordell Hull | United States |
1944 | international Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland |
1943 | Not awarded due to World War II | |
1942 | Not awarded due to World War II | |
1941 | Not awarded due to World War II | |
1940 | Not awarded due to World War II | |
1939 | Not awarded due to World War II | |
1938 | Nansen International Office for Refugees | League of Nations |
1937 | The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood | United Kingdom |
1936 | Carlos Saavedra Lamas | Argentina |
1935 | Carl von Ossietzky | Germany |
1934 | Arthur Henderson | United Kingdom |
1933 | Sir Norman Angell | United Kingdom |
1932 | Not awarded | |
1931 | Jane Addams | United States |
Nicholas Murray Butler | United States | |
1930 | Nathan Soderblom | Sweden |
1929 | Frank B. Kellogg | United States |
1928 | Not awarded | |
1927 | Ferdinand Buisson | France |
Ludwig Quidde | Germany | |
1926 | Aristide Briand | France |
Gustav Stresemann | Germany | |
1925 | Sir Austen Chamberlain | United Kingdom |
Charles G. Dawes | United Kingdom | |
1924 | Not awarded | |
1923 | Not awarded | |
1922 | Fridtjof Nansen | Norway |
1921 | Hjalmar Branting | Sweden |
Christian Lange | Norway | |
1920 | Leon Bourgeois | France |
1919 | Woodrow Wilson | United States |
1918 | Not awarded due to World War I | |
1917 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Switzerland |
1916 | Not awarded due to World War I | |
1915 | Not awarded due to World War I | |
1914 | Not awarded due to World War I | |
1913 | Henri La Fontaine | Belgium |
1912 | Elihu Root | United States |
1911 | Tobias Asser | Netherlands |
Alfred Fried | Austria-Hungary | |
1910 | Permanent International Peace Bureau | Switzerland |
1909 | Auguste Beernaert | Belgium |
Paul Henri d’Estournelles de Constant | France | |
1908 | Klas Pontus Arnoldson | Sweden |
Fredrik Bajer | Denmark | |
1907 | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta | Italy |
Louis Renault | France | |
1906 | Theodore Roosevelt | United States |
1905 | Bertha von Suttner | Austria-Hungary |
1904 | Institute of International Law | Belgium |
1903 | William Randal Cremer | United Kingdom |
1902 | Elie Ducommun | Switzerland |
Charles Albert Gobat | Switzerland | |
1901 | Henry Dunant | Switzerland |
Frederic Passy | France |