A committee of five elected by the Norwegian Storting (Parliament) is responsible for choosing the recipient(s) of the Nobel Prize for Peace.
The face of the Peace Prize shows Alfred Nobel in a pose slightly different from that of the other medals. The obverse depicts a group of three men forming a fraternal bond. The inscription reads Pro pace et fraternitate gentium, which translates to "For the peace and brotherhood of men." The medal was designed by Gustav Vigeland.
1901-1910 | 1911-1920 | 1921-1930 | 1931-1940 | 1941-1950 | 1951-1960 | 1961-1970 | 1971-1980 | 1981-1990 | 1991-2000 | 2001-
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1901 Jean Henri
Dunant for founding the Red Cross and originating the
Geneva Convention, and Frédéric Passy for founding a
French peace society.
1902 Élie Ducommun for his work as
honorary secretary of the International Peace Bureau, and
Charles Albert Gobat for his work as administrator of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union.
1903 Sir William R. Cremer for his
activities as founder and secretary of the International
Arbitration League.
1904 The Institute of International Law
for its studies on the laws of neutrality and other
phases of international law.
1905 Baroness Bertha von Suttner for
promoting pacifism and founding an Austrian peace
society.
1906 Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace
in the Russo-Japanese War.
1907 Ernesto T. Moneta for his work as
president of the Lombard League for Peace, and Louis
Renault for organizing international conferences and
representing France at two peace conferences.
1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson for founding
the Swedish Society for Arbitration and Peace, and
Fredrik Bajer for his work on the International Peace
Bureau.
1909 Auguste M.F. Beernaert for his work
on the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and Paul
d'Estournelles for founding and directing the French
Parliamentary Arbitration Committee and League of
International Conciliation.
1910 The International Peace Bureau for
promoting international arbitration and organizing many
peace conferences.
1911 Tobias M.C.
Asser for organizing conferences on international law,
and Alfred H. Fried for his writings on peace as editor
of Die Friedenswarte.
1912 Elihu Root for peacefully settling
the problem of Japanese immigration to California and
organizing the Central American Peace Conference.
1913 Henri Lafontaine for his work as
president of the International Peace Bureau.
1914-1916 No award given.
1919 The International Red Cross for
doing relief work during World War I.
1918 No award given.
1919 Woodrow Wilson for attempting a
just settlement of World War I and advocating the League
of Nations.
1920 Léon Bourgeois for his
contribution as president of the Council of the League of
Nations.
1921 Karl Hjalmar
Branting for promoting social reforms in Sweden and
serving as the Swedish delegate to the League of Nations,
and Christian Louis Lange for his contribution as
secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
1922 Fridtjof Nansen for doing relief
work among Russian prisoners of war and in famine areas
in Russia.
1923-1924 No award given.
1925 Sir Austen Chamberlain for helping
to work out the Locarno Peace Pact, and Charles G. Dawes
for originating a plan for payment of German reparations.
1926 Aristide Briand for his part in
forming the Locarno Peace Pact, and Gustav Stresemann for
persuading Germany to accept plans for reparations.
1927 Ferdinand Buisson for his work as
president of the League of Human Rights, and Ludwig
Quidde for writing on peace and participating in many
international peace congresses.
1928 No award given.
1929 Frank Billings Kellogg for
negotiating the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
1930 Nathan Söderblom for writing on
and working for peace.
1931 Jane Addams
for her work with the Women's International League for
Peace and Freedom, and Nicholas M. Butler for his work
with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
1932 No award given.
1933 Sir Norman Angell for his work with
the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the League
of Nations, and the National Peace Council.
1934 Arthur Henderson for his
contribution as president of the World Disarmament
Conference.
1935 Carl von Ossietzky for promoting
world disarmament. (Award delayed until 1936)
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas for
negotiating a peace settlement between Bolivia and
Paraguary in the Chaco War.
1937 Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne
Cecil for promoting the League of Nations and working
with peace movements.
1938 The International Office for
Refugees for directing relief work among refugees.
1939-1943 No award given.
1944 The
International Red Cross for doing relief work during
World War II.
1945 Cordell Hull for his peace efforts
as Secretary of State.
1946 John R. Mott for his YMCA work and
for aiding displaced persons, and Emily G. Balch for her
work with the Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom.
1947 The Friends Service Council and the
American Friends Service Committee for humanitarian work.
1948 No award given.
1949 John Boyd Orr for directing the
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
1950 Ralph J. Bunche for his work as
U.N. mediator in Palestine in 1948 and 1949.
1951 Léon Jouhaux
for his work helping to organize national and
international labor unions.
1952 Albert Schweitzer for his
humanitarian work in Africa. (Award delayed until 1953.)
1953 George C. Marshall for his work in
promoting peace through the European Recovery Program.
1954 Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees for providing international
protection for millions of refugees and seeking permanent
solutions to their problems. (Award delayed until 1955.)
1955-1956 No award given.
1957 Lester B. Pearson for organizing a
United Nations force in Egypt.
1958 Dominique Georges Pire for his work
in resettling displaced persons.
1959 Philip Noel-Baker for his work in
promoting peace and disarmament.
1960 Albert John Luthuli for his
peaceful campaign against racial restrictions in South
Africa.
1961 Dag Hammarskjöld for his efforts to
bring peace to the Congo (awarded posthumously).
1962 Linus Pauling for trying to effect
a ban on nuclear weapons.
1963 The International Committee of the
Red Cross and The League of Red Cross Societies for
humanitarian work.
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr., for
leading the black struggle for equality in the United
States through nonviolent means.
1965 United Nations Children's Fund
(UNICEF) for its aid to children.
1966-1967 No award given.
1968 René Cassin for furthering the
cause of human rights.
1969 International Labor Organization
(ILO) for its efforts to improve working conditions.
1970 Norman E. Borlaug for his role in
developing high-yield grains that increased food
production in developing countries.
1971 Willy Brandt
for his efforts to improve relations between Communist
and non-Communist nations.
1972 No award given.
1973 Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho
for negotiating the Vietnam War cease-fire agreement. (Le
Duc Tho declined the prize.)
1974 Sean MacBride for working to
guarantee human rights through international law, and Eisaku Sato for his efforts to improve
international relations and stop the spread of nuclear
weapons.
1975 Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov
for his efforts in support of peace and in opposition to
violence and brutality.
1976 Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams
for organizing a movement to end Protestant-Catholic
fighting in Northern Ireland. (Award delayed until 1977.)
1977 Amnesty International for its work
to help political prisoners.
1978 Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin for
their signing of the first peace treaty between Israel
and an Arab nation.
1979 Mother Teresa for her work among
the poorest of the poor in India.
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1981 Office of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1982 Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles
1983 Lech Walesa for his role in improving
the rights of workers in Poland.
1984 Desmond Tutu for his work to end
apartheid in South Africa.
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention
of Nuclear War
1986 Elie Wiesel
1987 Oscar Arias Sánchez
1988 United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1989 The 14th Dalai Lama
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev
1991 Aung San Suu
Kyi
1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum
1993 Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk
1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak
Rabin
1995 Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences
on Science and World Affairs
1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José
Ramos-Horta
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines and
Jody Williams
1998 John Hume and David Trimble
1999 Médecins Sans Frontičres
2000 Kim Dae-jung
2001 United
Nations and Kofi Annan
2002 James Earl Carter
2003 Shirin Ebadi
2004 Wangari Maathai
2005 International Atomic Energy Agency and
Mohamed El Baradei
2006 Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) and Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.
2008 Martti Ahtisaari
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