Nobel Peace Prizes since 1901:

1901 H. Dunant (Switzerland), F. Passy (France)
1902 E. Ducommun (Switzerland), A. Gobat (Switzerland)
1903 W. R. Cremer (UK)
1904 Institute of International Law
1905 B. von Suttner (Austria)
1906 T. Roosevelt (USA)
1907 E. T. Moneta (Italy), L. Renault (France)
1908 K. P. Arnoldson (Sweden), F. Bajer (Denmark)
1909 A. M. F. Beernaert (Belgium), P. H. B. Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant (France)
1910 International Peace Bureau, Bern
1911 T. M. C. Asser (Netherlands), A. H. Fried (Austria)
1912 E. Root (USA)
1913 H. La Fontaine (Belgium)
1914 Not awarded
1915 Not awarded
1916 Not awarded
1917 International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva
1918 Not awarded
1919 T. W. Wilson (USA)
1920 L. Bourgeois (France)
1921 K. H. Branting (Sweden), C. L. Lange (Norway)
1922 F. Nansen (Norway)
1923 Not awarded
1924 Not awarded
1925 J. A. Chamberlain (UK), C. G. Dawes (USA)
1926 A. Briand (France), G. Stresemann (Germany)
1927 F. Buisson (France), L. Quidde (Germany)
1928 Not awarded
1929 F. B. Kellogg (USA)
1930 N. Söderblom (Sweden)
1931 J. Addams (USA), N. M. Butler (USA)
1932 Not awarded
1933 N. Angell (UK)
1934 A. Henderson (UK)
1935 C. von Ossietzky (Germany)
1936 C. Saavedra Lamas (Argentina)
1937 Viscount E. Cecil of Chelwood (UK)
1938 Nansen International Office for Refugees
1939 Not awarded
1940 Not awarded
1941 Not awarded
1942 Not awarded
1943 Not awarded
1944 International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva
1945 C. Hull (USA)
1946 E. G. Balch (USA), J. R. Mott (USA)
1947 The Friends Service Council (UK), The American Friends Service Committee (USA)
1948 Not awarded
1949 J. Boyd Orr (UK)
1950 R. Bunche (USA)
1951 L. Jouhaux (France)
1952 A. Schweitzer (France)
1953 G. C. Marshall (USA)
1954 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva
1955 Not awarded
1956 Not awarded
1957 L. B. Pearson (Canada)
1958 D. Pire (Belgium)
1959 P. Noel-Baker (UK)
1960 A. Luthuli (South Africa)
1961 D. Hammarskjöld (Sweden)
1962 Linus C. Pauling (USA)
1963 International Committee of the Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
1964 M. L. King (USA)
1965 UNICEF
1966 Not awarded
1967 Not awarded
1968 R. Cassin (France)
1969 International Labour Organization
1970 N. E. Borlaug (USA)
1971 W. Brandt (West Germany)
1972 Not awarded
1973 H. Kissinger (USA), Le Duc Tho (Vietnam) (he refused the prize)
1974 Sato Eisaku (Japan), S. MacBride (Ireland)
1975 A. Sakharov (USSR)
1976 M. Corrigan (Ireland), B. Williams (Ireland)
1977 Amnesty International
1978 M. Begin (Israel), A. el-Sadat (Egypt)
1979 Mother Teresa (India)
1980 A. Pérez Esquivel (Argentina)
1981 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1982 A. Myrdal (Sweden), A. Garcia Robles (Mexico)
1983 Lech Walesa (Poland)
1984 D. Tutu (South Africa)
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1986 E. Wiesel (USA)
1987 Ó. Arias Sánchez (Costa Rica)
1988 United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1989 Dalai Lama (Tibet)
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev (USSR)
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma)
1992 R. Menchú (Guatemala)
1993 F. de Klerk (South Africa), N. Mandela (South Africa)
1994 Y. Arafat (Palestine), S. Peres (Israel), Y. Rabin (Israel)
1996 C. F. Ximenes Belo (East Timor), J. Ramos-Horta (East Timor)
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams (campaign coordinator, born 1950)
1998 David Trimble (born 1944) and John Hume (born 1937)
1999 Doctors Without Borders
2000 Kim Dae-jung, President of South Korea since 1997, launched the “Sunshine Policy” toward reunification with North Korea.
2001 Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General - Learn more
2002 Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President, turned peace ambassador.
2003 Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi.
2004 Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai.
2005 Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where he serves as Director General.
2006 Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh) and the Grameen Bank, the microcredit institution he founded in 1976.
2007 Al Gore (former U.S. Vice President) and the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
2008 Martti Ahtisaari, former Finnish President, mediated international conflicts, notably in Kosovo.
2009 Barack Obama, U.S. President. Since taking office, he has sought cooperative solutions among nations.
2010 Liu Xiaobo, Chinese dissident detained since 2008. Liu seeks democracy in China through Charter 08. He moderated the Tiananmen Square protests, likely saving thousands by urging students to leave in time. He advocates gradual, peaceful political change.
2011 Three women from Liberia and Yemen receive the Nobel for their non-violent struggle for women’s safety and full participation in peace-building: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman.
2012 The European Union receives the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize for establishing lasting peace across a continent long plagued by war, culminating in World War II. This is an encouragement at a time when solidarity between wealthier northern European countries and less affluent southern ones appears stalled.
2013 The OPCW, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, receives the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. Founded in 1997, it oversees the destruction of chemical weapons in 190 signatory countries of the January 13, 1993, convention.
2014 - October 10: The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi. On the eve of International Day of the Girl, this sends a powerful message about equal opportunities for girls and boys through education.
Malala (17, Muslim), shot by the Taliban in 2012 for attending school despite their ban, became a global advocate through her courage and eloquent speeches and books, despite her young age.
Her book in French I Am Malala is available here. She sets a record as the youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient in history.
Kailash Satyarthi (58), a human rights activist from New Delhi, born in 1954 in India, has fought child slavery since 1990 (age 26).
2015 - October 9 - The prize is awarded to a quartet of Tunisian civil society organizations that advanced pluralistic democracy after the 2011 Jasmine Revolution:
- UGTT (Tunisian General Labour Union)
- UTICA (Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts)
- Tunisian Human Rights League
- National Bar Association
This group created a roadmap leading to a progressive constitution adopted in January 2014.
2016 - October 7, The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for securing a peace agreement with the FARC, despite its rejection in a referendum. This is international support for Santos to pursue peace and gain acceptance from Colombians, who have suffered from FARC violence for 50 years, though forgiveness will take time.
2017 - October 6, The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to ICAN. ICAN is a coalition of NGOs and celebrities behind a campaign for a treaty banning nuclear weapons possession, signed by 122 countries.
2018 - October 5, The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
2019 - October 11, The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Abiy Ahmed for his efforts to establish peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
2020 - October 9, The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the UN’s World Food Programme for combating hunger and preventing its use as a weapon of war.
2021 - October 8, The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to journalists Dmitry Muratov (Russia) and Maria Ressa (Philippines) for their courageous fight for freedom of expression. This is the first Nobel Peace Prize recognizing freedom of information.
2022 - October 7, The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Russian NGO Memorial, the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, and Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski. This is a symbolic act against Vladimir Putin and his allies, who launched a war on Ukraine in February 2022 under the guise of a criminal “special operation.”
2023 - October 6 - The prize is awarded to Narges Mohammadi for her work to abolish the death penalty and combat violence against women.
2024 - October 11, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its fight against nuclear weapons.