Nobel Peace Prize

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List of Nobel Prize laureates in Peace from 1901 to the present day.

1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

1900s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 1900s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
1901	Jean Henri Dunant (Switzerland)	founder of the Red Cross and initiator of the Geneva Convention.
1901	Fr�d�ric Passy (France)	founder and president of the Soci�t� Fran�aise pour l'arbitrage entre nations.
1902	�lie Ducommun (Switzerland) and Charles Albert Gobat	honorary secretaries of the Permanent International Peace Bureau in Berne.
1903	Sir William Randal Cremer (UK)	secretary of the International Arbitration League.
1904	Institut de droit international (Gent, Belgium).
1905	Bertha Sophie Felicitas Baronin von Suttner, n�e Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau (Austria)	writer, honorary president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
1906	Theodore Roosevelt (USA)	president of the United States, for drawing up the peace treaty in the Russo-Japanese War.
1907	Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (Italy)	president of the Lombard League of Peace.
1907	Louis Renault (France)	professor of International Law.
1908	Klas Pontus Arnoldson (Sweden)	founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League.
1908	Fredrik Bajer (Denmark)	honorary president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
1909	Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert (Belgium)	member of the Cour Internationale d'Arbitrage.
1909	Paul Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque (France)	founder and president of the French parliamentary group for international arbitration. Founder of the Comit� de d�fense des int�rets nationaux et de conciliation internationale

1910s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 1910s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
1910	Bureau International Permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau), Berne.
1911	Tobias Michael Carel Asser (Netherlands)	initiator of the International Conferences of Private Law in The Hague.
1911	Alfred Hermann Fried (Austria)	founder of Die Waffen Nieder.
1912	Elihu Root (USA)	for initiating various arbitration agreements.
1913	Henri la Fontaine (Belgium)	president of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
1914	Not awarded
1915
1916
1917	International Red Cross, Geneva.
1918	Not awarded
1919	Woodrow Wilson (USA) for founding the League of Nations.

1920s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 1920s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
1920	L�on Victor Auguste Bourgeois	president of the Council of the League of Nations.
1921	Hjalmar Branting (Sweden)	prime minister, Swedish delegate to the Council of the League of Nations.
1921	Christian Lous Lange (Norway)	secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
1922	Fridtjof Nansen (Norway)	Norwegian delegate to the League of Nations, originator of the Nansen passports for refugees.
1923	Not awarded
1924	Not awarded
1925	Sir Austen Chamberlain (UK) for the Locarno Treaty.
1925	Charles Gates Dawes (USA)	chairman of the Allied Reparation Commission and originator of the Dawes Plan.
1926	Aristide Briand (France) for the Locarno Treaties.
1926	Gustav Stresemann (Germany)	for the Locarno Treaties.
1927	Ferdinand Buisson (France)	founder and president of the League for Human Rights.
1927	Ludwig Quidde (Germany)	delegate to numerous peace conferences.
1928	Not awarded
1929	Frank B. Kellogg (USA)	for the Briand-Kellogg Pact.

1930s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 1930s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
1930	Archbishop Lars Olof Nathan (Jonathan) S�derblom (Sweden)	leader of the ecumenical movement.
1931	Jane Addams (USA)	international president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
1931	Nicholas Murray Butler (USA)	for promoting the Briand-Kellogg Pact.
1932	Not awarded
1933	Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) (UK)	writer, member of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations and the National Peace Council.
1934	Arthur Henderson (UK)	chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference
1935	Carl von Ossietzky (Germany)	pacifist journalist.
1936	Carlos Saavedra Lamas (Argentina)	president of the League of Nations and mediator in a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia.
1937	The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood	founder and president of the International Peace Campaign.
1938	Nansen International Office For Refugees, Geneva.
1939	Not awarded

1940s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 1940s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
1940	Not awarded
1941
1942
1943
1944	International Committee of the Red Cross (awarded retroactively in 1945).
1945	Cordell Hull (USA)	for co-initiating the United Nations.
1946	Emily Greene Balch (USA)	honorary international president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
1946	John R. Mott (USA)	chairman of the International Missionary Council and president of the World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations
1947	The Friends Service Council (UK) and The American Friends Service Committee (USA)	on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers.
1948	Not awarded
1949	The Lord Boyd-Orr (UK)	director General Food and Agricultural Organization, president National Peace Council, president World Union of Peace Organizations.

1950s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 1950s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
1950	Ralph Bunche	for mediating in Palestine (1948).
1951	L�on 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 UN.
1952	Albert Schweitzer (France)	for founding the Lambarene Hospital in Gabon.
1953	American Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall	for the Marshall Plan.
1954	The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
1955	Not awarded
1956	Not awarded
1957	Lester Bowles Pearson	Then Prime Minister of Canada and president of the 7th session of the United Nations General Assembly for introducing peacekeeping forces to resolve the Suez Crisis.
1958	Georges Pire (Belgium)	leader of L'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde, a relief organization for refugees.
1959	Philip Noel-Baker (UK)	for his lifelong ardent work for international peace and co-operation.

1960s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 1960s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
1960	Albert Lutuli (South Africa)	president of the ANC (African National Congress).
1961	Dag Hammarskj�ld (Sweden)	secretary-general of the UN (awarded posthumously).
1962	Linus Carl Pauling (USA)	for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing.
1963	International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva.
1963	League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva.
1964	Martin Luther King Jr (USA)	campaigner for civil rights.
1965	United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF)
1966	Not awarded
1967	Not awarded
1968	Ren� Cassin (France)	president of the European Court of Human Rights.
1969	International Labour Organization (I.L.O.), Geneva.

1970s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 1970s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
1970	Norman Borlaug (USA)	for research at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.
1971	Chancellor Willy Brandt (Germany)	for West Germany's Ostpolitik, embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and East Germany.
1972	Not awarded
1973	Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger (USA) and Foreign Minister Le Duc Tho (Vietnam, declined)	for the Vietnam peace accord.
1974	Se�n MacBride (Ireland)	president of the International Peace Bureau and the Commission of Namibia of the United Nations.
1974	Eisaku Sato (Japan)	prime minister.
1975	Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (USSR)	for his campaigning for human rights.
1976	Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan	founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People).
1977	Amnesty International, London	for its campaign against torture.
1978	President Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat (Egypt) and Prime Minister Menachem Begin (Israel)	for negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.
1979	Mother Teresa	poverty awareness campaigner (India)

1980s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 1980s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
1980	Adolfo P�rez Esquivel (Argentina)	human rights
1981	The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
1982	Alva Myrdal (Sweden) and Alfonso Garc�a Robles (Mexico)	delegates to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament.
1983	Lech Wałęsa (Poland)	founder of Solidarność and campaigner for human rights. Served as the first president of Poland after the fall of Communism
1984	Bishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu (South Africa)	for his work against apartheid.
1985	International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Boston.
1986	Elie Wiesel (USA)	author, Holocaust survivor
1987	�scar Arias S�nchez (Costa Rica)	for initiating peace negotiations in Central America.
1988	The United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces, New York.
1989	Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.

1990s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 1990s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
1990	President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (USSR)	for helping to end the Cold War.
1991	Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma)	opposition leader and human rights advocate.
1992	Author Rigoberta Mench� (Guatemala)	for campaigning for human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.
1993	President Nelson Mandela (South Africa) and Former President Frederik Willem de Klerk (South Africa)	"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"
1994	PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat (Palestine), Foreign Minister Shimon Peres (Israel) and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)	for concluding the Oslo peace accords.
1995	J�zef Rotblat (Poland/UK) and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs	for their efforts in the fight against nuclear arms.
1996	Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo (East Timor) and Jos� Ramos Horta (East Timor)	for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
1997	International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams	for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
1998	John Hume (UK) and David Trimble (UK)	for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
1999	M�decins Sans Fronti�res, Brussels.

2000s

**Nobel Prize in Peace, 2000s**
Year	Individual or Organization	Notes
2000	President Kim Dae Jung (South Korea)	for his work for democracy and human rights, and in particular for peace and reconciliation with North Korea.
2001	The United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan (Ghana)
2002	Jimmy Carter - former President of the 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, Iranian	human rights activist and democracy campaigner

External links

The Nobel Foundation (http://www.nobel.se/)
The Norwegian Nobel Institute (http://www.nobel.no/)
Nobel Prize Winners in Peace (http://www.nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace)

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