Peace, as we know, is an ‘elusive project’ that aspires to make this world a better place to live in. Peace is the umbrella term for harmonizing mankind and eliminating warfare or malicious acts that create unrest in the world. Sadly, the world was never peaceful, but today it has become intolerant and there is ardent need to restore peace.
Ever since its inception 116 years ago, Nobel Peace Prize attempts to honor the maestros who have initiated a positive change on humanitarian grounds. Nobel Peace Prize is one out of the six Nobel prizes awarded. Other categories of Nobel prizes include medicine, physics, literature, economics, and chemistry.
First awarded 116 years ago, Nobel Peace Prize is awarded for the outstanding contribution in to society. It is annual award ceremony with a few exceptions when the award was not presented. Among the Nobel prizes, it is the only Peace prize that is awarded in Norway. Rest are awarded in Sweden.
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege of Belgian Congo and Nadia Murad of Iraq, who have been noticed for their efforts towards ending sexual violence during a war. It was presented by 2017. Denis Mukwege Mukwege gave a speech at the UN in 2012, calling out the mass rape which prevails in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On the other hand, Nadia Murad has herself been a survivor of human trafficking, and is now a UN Goodwill Ambassador. Numerous activists around the world are highly appreciative of the awards and believe that the most deserving people have won the prize.
Following is the tabular representation of all the Nobel Peace Prize winners.
| Year | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Nadia Murad | Iraq |
| 2018 | Denis Mukwege | Belgian Congo |
| 2016 | Juan Manuel Santos | Colombia |
| 2014 | Kailash Satyarthi | India |
| 2014 | Malala Yousafzai | Pakistan |
| 2011 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Liberia |
| 2011 | Leymah Gbowee | Liberia |
| 2011 | 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 |
| 2005 | Mohamed ElBaradei | Egypt |
| 2004 | Wangari Muta Maathai | Kenya |
| 2003 | Shirin Ebadi | Iran |
| 2002 | Jimmy Carter | United States |
| 2001 | Kofi Annan | Ghana |
| 2000 | Kim Dae-jung | South Korea |
| 1998 | John Hume | United Kingdom |
| 1998 | David Trimble | United Kingdom |
| 1997 | Jody Williams | United States |
| 1996 | Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo | Timor-Leste |
| 1996 | José Ramos-Horta | Timor-Leste |
| 1995 | Joseph Rotblat | United Kingdom |
| 1994 | Yitzhak Rabin | Israel |
| 1994 | Shimon Peres | Israel |
| 1994 | Yasser Arafat | Palestine |
| 1993 | Nelson Mandela | South Africa |
| 1993 | Frederik Willem de Klerk | South Africa |
| 1992 | Rigoberta Menchú | Guatemala |
| 1991 | Aung San Suu Kyi | Burma |
| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet Union |
| 1989 | Tenzin Gyatso,14th Dalai Lama | India |
| 1987 | Óscar Arias | Costa Rica |
| 1986 | Elie Wiesel | United States |
| 1984 | Desmond Tutu | South Africa |
| 1983 | Lech Wałęsa | Poland |
| 1982 | Alva Myrdal | Sweden |
| 1982 | Alfonso García Robles | Mexico |
| 1980 | Adolfo Pérez Esquivel | Argentina |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa | India |
| 1978 | Menachem Begin | Israel |
| 1978 | Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat | Egypt |
| 1976 | Betty Williams | United Kingdom |
| 1976 | Mairead Corrigan | United Kingdom |
| 1975 | Andrei Sakharov | Soviet Union |
| 1974 | Seán MacBride | Ireland |
| 1974 | Eisaku Satō | Japan |
| 1973 | Henry Kissinger | United States |
| 1973 | Lê Đức Thọ | Vietnam |
| 1972 | Not awarded | |
| 1971 | Willy Brandt | West Germany |
| 1970 | Norman E. Borlaug | United States |
| 1968 | René Cassin | France |
| 1967 | Not awarded | |
| 1966 | Not awarded | |
| 1964 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | United States |
| 1962 | Linus Pauling | United States |
| 1961 | Dag Hammarskjöld | Sweden |
| 1960 | Albert Lutuli | South Africa |
| 1959 | Philip Noel-Baker | United Kingdom |
| 1958 | Dominique Pire | Belgium |
| 1957 | Lester Bowles Pearson | Canada |
| 1956 | Not awarded | |
| 1955 | Not awarded | |
| 1953 | George C. Marshall | United States |
| 1952 | Albert Schweitzer | France |
| 1951 | Léon Jouhaux | France |
| 1950 | Ralph Bunche | United States |
| 1949 | The Lord Boyd-Orr | United Kingdom |
| 1948 | Not awarded because “there was no suitable living candidate.” | |
| 1946 | Emily Greene Balch | United States |
| 1946 | John Raleigh Mott | United States |
| 1945 | Cordell Hull | United States |
| 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. | |
| 1937 | 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 |
| 1931 | Nicholas Murray Butler | United States |
| 1930 | Nathan Söderblom | Sweden |
| 1929 | Frank B. Kellogg[A] | United States |
| 1928 | Not awarded | |
| 1927 | Ferdinand Buisson | France |
| 1927 | Ludwig Quidde | Germany |
| 1926 | Aristide Briand | France |
| 1926 | Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| 1925 | Charles G. Dawes | United States |
| 1925 | Sir Austen Chamberlain | United Kingdom |
| 1924 | Not awarded | |
| 1923 | Not awarded | |
| 1922 | Fridtjof Nansen | Norway |
| 1921 | Hjalmar Branting | Sweden |
| 1921 | Christian Lange | Norway |
| 1920 | Léon Bourgeois | France |
| 1919 | Woodrow Wilson | United States |
| 1918 | Not awarded due to World War I. | |
| 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 | Alfred Fried | Austria |
| 1911 | Tobias Asser | Netherlands |
| 1909 | Paul Henri d’Estournelles de Constant | France |
| 1909 | Auguste Beernaert | Belgium |
| 1908 | Klas Pontus Arnoldson | Sweden |
| 1908 | Fredrik Bajer | Denmark |
| 1907 | Louis Renault | France |
| 1907 | Ernesto Teodoro Moneta | Italy |
| 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt | United States |
| 1905 | Bertha von Suttner | Austria |
| 1903 | William Randal Cremer | United Kingdom |
| 1902 | Élie Ducommun | Switzerland |
| 1902 | Charles Albert Gobat | Switzerland |
| 1901 | Frédéric Passy | France |
| 1901 | Henry Dunant | Switzerland |
Here is a list of the organizations that have won the Nobel Peace Prize.
| Year | organization/ unions | Headquarters/Founded in |
| 1910 | Permanent International Peace Bureau | Geneva |
| 1917 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Geneva |
| 1944 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Geneva |
| 1963 | International Committee of the Red Cross | Geneva |
| 1963 | League of Red Cross Societies | Geneva |
| 1997 | International Campaign to Ban Landmines | Geneva |
| 1999 | Médecins Sans Frontières | Geneva |
| 2017 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | Geneva |
| 1954 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | Geneva |
| 1969 | International Labour Organization | Geneva |
| 1981 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | Geneva |
| 2007 | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Geneva |
| 1965 | United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) | New York City |
| 1988 | United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces | New York City |
| 2001 | United Nations | New York City |
| 1938 | Nansen International Office for Refugees | London |
| 1977 | Amnesty International | London |
| 1985 | International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | Boston |
| 2012 | European Union | Brussels |
| 1995 | Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | Toronto |
| 2006 | Grameen Bank | Dhaka |
| 1947 | Friends Service Council | Philadelphia |
| 2013 | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons | The Hague |
| 2015 | Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet | Tunisia |
| 2005 | International Atomic Energy Agency | Vienna |
| 1947 | American Friends Service Committee | Washington, DC |
| 1904 | Institute of International Law | Ghent |
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