Nobel Prize Winners - Peace:-

Nobel Prize Winners - Peace:-

Nobel Prize Winners in Peace.

                

Year	Laureate	Country	Contribution
2012	European Union		advancement of peace, democracy, and human rights in Europe
2011	Tawakel Karman	Yemen
	Leymah Gbowee
	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	Liberia	non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work
2010	Liu Xiaobo	China	long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China
2009	Barack Obama	United States	efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation
2008	Martti Ahtisaari	Finland	efforts to resolve international conflicts
2007	Al Gore	United States
	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change	United Nations	creating awareness about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change
2006	Grameen Bank
	Muhammad Yunus	Bangladesh	microcredit and microfinance for the poor
2005	Mohamed ElBaradei	Egypt
	International Atomic Energy Agency	United Nations	efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purpose
2004	Wangari Muta Maathai	Kenya	contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace
2003	Shirin Ebadi	Iran	efforts for democracy and human rights especially for women and children
2002	Jimmy Carter	United States	efforts for peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development
	Kofi Annan	Ghana
2001	United Nations	United Nations	for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world
2000	Kim Dae Jung	South Korea	work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia work for peace and reconciliation with North Korea
1999	Médecins Sans Frontières	Switzerland	humanitarian work
	David Trimble	United Kingdom
1998	John Hume	United Kingdom	efforts to ease conflict in Northern Ireland
1997	Jody Williams	United States
	International Campaign to Ban Landmines	Switzerland	work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines
1996	José Ramos-Horta
	Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo	East Timor	peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor
1995	Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs	Canada
	Joseph Rotblat	United Kingdom	efforts to diminish the role of nuclear arms in international politics
1994	Shimon Peres
	Yitzhak Rabin	Israel
	Yasser Arafat	Palestine
1993	Frederik Willem de Klerk
	Nelson Mandela	South Africa	work against apartheid Work towards establishment of a new democratic South Africa
1992	Rigoberta Menchú	Guatemala	work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation
1991	Aung San Suu Kyi	Burma	non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights
1990	Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Soviet Union	President of the Soviet Union leading role in the peace processes
1989	14th Dalai Lama
	Tenzin Gyatso,	Tibet	struggle for the liberation of Tibet opposition of violence
1988	United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces	United Nations
1987	Óscar Arias	Costa Rica	work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year
1986	Elie Wiesel	United States	Chairman of The President's Commission on the Holocaust
1985	International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War	United States	For creating awareness of consequences of atomic warfare.
1984	Desmond Tutu	South Africa	Bishop of Johannesburg former Secretary General, South African Council of Churches
1983	Lech Walesa	Poland	Founder of Solidarność campaigner for human rights
1982	Alfonso García Robles	Mexico
	Alva Myrdal	Sweden	their magnificent work in the disarmament negotiations of the United Nations, where they have both played crucial roles and won international recognition
1981	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	United Nations	An international relief organization founded by the U.N. in 1951
1980	Adolfo Pérez Esquivel	Argentina	Human rights leader; founded non-violent human rights organizations to fight the military junta that was ruling his country (Argentina).
1979	Mother Teresa	India	Founder of Missionaries of Charity
1978	Menachem Begin	Israel
	Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat	Egypt	Camp David Agreement, peace between Egypt and Israel
1977	Amnesty International	United Kingdom	human rights of prisoners
1976	Mairead Corrigan
	Betty Williams	United Kingdom	Founded Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)
1975	Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov	Soviet Union	human rights, disarmament, and cooperation between all nations
1974	Eisaku Satō	Japan	Prime Minister of Japan renunciation of the nuclear option for Japan
	Seán MacBride	Ireland	founding member of Amnesty International
1973	Le Duc Tho	North Vietnam
	Henry Kissinger	United States	1973 Paris agreement
1972	Not awarded
1971	Willy Brandt	West Germany	Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
1970	Norman E. Borlaug	United States	green revolution
1969	International Labour Organization	United Nations
1968	René Cassin	France	President of the European Court for Human Rights
1967	Not awarded
1966	Not awarded
1965	United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)	United Nations	An international aid organization
1964	Martin Luther King, Jr.	United States	Campaign for civil rights
1963	League of Red Cross Societies
	International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland
1962	Linus Carl Pauling	United States	campaign against nuclear weapons testing
1961	Dag Hammarskjöld	Sweden	Secretary General of the U.N.
1960	Albert Lutuli	South Africa	President of the African National Congress struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
1959	Philip J. Noel-Baker	United Kingdom	international peace and co-operation
1958	Georges Pire	Belgium	Father in the Dominican Order Leader of the relief organization for refugees L'Europe du Coeur au Service   du Monde
1957	Lester Bowles Pearson	Canada	efforts in resolving Suez conflict and Middle East
1956	Not awarded
1955	Not awarded
1954	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	Switzerland	An international relief organization founded by the U.N. in 1951
1953	George Catlett Marshall	United States	Originator of  Marshall Plan
1952	Albert Schweitzer	France	Missionary surgeon; Founder of Lambaréné (République de Gabon)
1951	Léon 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 United Nations
1950	Ralph Bunche	United States	Director, division of Trusteeship, U.N. Acting Mediator in Palestine, 1948
1949	The Lord Boyd-Orr	United Kingdom	Organizer and Director, General Food and Agricultural Organization; President, National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations
1948	Not awarded because "there was no suitable living candidate."
1947	American Friends Service Committee	United States
	Friends Service Council	United Kingdom	compassion
1946	John Raleigh Mott		Chairman, International Missionary Council; President, World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations
	Emily Greene Balch	United States	Honorary International President, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
1945	Cordell Hull	United States	peace bloc of states on the American continents role at the United Nations Organization
1944	International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland	role in World War II
1943	Not awarded
1942	Not awarded
1941	Not awarded
1940	Not awarded
1939	Not awarded
1938	Nansen International Office for Refugees	Switzerland	role in aiding refugees
1937	Robert Cecil	United Kingdom	work with the League of Nations
1936	Carlos Saavedra Lamas	Argentina	mediation for ending Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia
1935	Carl von Ossietzky	Germany	struggle against Germany's rearmament
1934	Arthur Henderson	United Kingdom	disarmament
1933	Norman Angell	United Kingdom	For authoring "The Great Illusion" supporter of the League of Nations
1932	Not awarded
1931	Nicholas Murray Butler		promotion of the Briand-Kellogg pact
	Jane Addams	United States	Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
1930	Nathan Söderblom	Sweden	involving the churches in work towards world peace
1929	Frank B. Kellogg	United States	Kellogg-Briand pact
1928	Not awarded
	Ludwig Quidde	Germany
1927	Ferdinand Buisson	France	role in Franco-German popular reconciliation
1926	Gustav Stresemann	Germany
	Aristide Briand	France	For work on the Locarno Treaties
1925	Charles G. Dawes	United States	Dawes Plan for German reparations role in Locarno Pact of 1925
	Austen Chamberlain	United Kingdom	Role in Locarno Treaties
1924	Not awarded
1923	Not awarded
1922	Fridtjof Nansen	Norway	aiding the people affected by famine in n Russia work for the refugees in Asia Minor and Thrace
1921	Christian Lange	Norway	first secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
	Hjalmar Branting	Sweden	role in the League of Nations
1920	Léon Bourgeois	France	role in Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907 'spiritual father' of the League
1919	Woodrow Wilson	United States	establishment of the League
1918	Not awarded
1917	International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland	protecting the rights of prisoners of war in World War I
1916	Not awarded
1915	Not awarded
1914	Not awarded
1913	Henri La Fontaine	Belgium	head of the International Peace Bureau
1912	Elihu Root	United States	international arbitration and plan for a world court
1911	Alfred Fried	Austria	founder of the German Peace Society
	Tobias Asser	Netherlands	Conferences on International Private Law
1910	Permanent International Peace Bureau	Switzerland	coordination between peace societies of various countries
1909	Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant	France	international arbitration
	Auguste Beernaert	Belgium	representative to the two Hague conferences leading figure in the Inter-Parliamentary Union
1908	Fredrik Bajer	Denmark	peace advocate in Scandinavia first president of the International Peace Bureau
	Klas Pontus Arnoldson	Sweden	founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League
1907	Louis Renault	France	French international jurist and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague
	Ernesto Teodoro Moneta	Italy	Italian peace movement
1906	Theodore Roosevelt	United States	successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case
1905	Bertha von Suttner	Austria-Hungary	Author of "Lay Down Your Arms" and contributing to the creation of the Nobel Peace Prize
1904	Institute of International Law	Belgium	an unofficial body to formulate the general principles of the science of international law
1903	William Randal Cremer	United Kingdom	first father' of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
1902	Charles Albert Gobat		first Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
	Élie Ducommun	Switzerland	first honorary secretary of the International Peace Bureau
1901	Frédéric Passy	France	one of the main founders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union main organizer of the first Universal Peace Congress
	Henry Dunant	Switzerland	founding the International Committee of the Red Cross