Nobel Peace Prize

for its long-standing efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through survivor testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again, as well as for its extraordinary contribution to establishing the nuclear taboo

for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all

Narges Mohammadi

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

for representing civil society in their home countries, for many years promoting the right to criticise those in power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens, and for their outstanding efforts to document war crimes, human-rights abuses and abuses of power, thereby demonstrating the importance of civil society for peace and democracy

Ales Bialiatski

Belarus

Memorial

Russian Federation

Center for Civil Liberties

Ukraine

for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace

Maria Ressa

Philippines

Dmitry Muratov

Russian Federation

for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas, and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict

World Food Programme

World

for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea

Abiy Ahmed

Ethiopia

for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict

Denis Mukwege

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Nadia Murad

Iraq

for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Switzerland

for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end

Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia

for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the 2011 Jasmine Revolution

Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet

Tunisia

for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistan

Kailash Satyarthi

India

for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons

for over six decades of contributions to peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe

European Union

European Union

for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Liberia

Leymah Gbowee

Liberia

Tawakkol Karman

Yemen

for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China

Liu Xiaobo

China

for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples, and for giving people around the world hope for a better future

Barack Obama

United States of America

for his efforts to resolve the armed conflict in Aceh, Indonesia

Martti Ahtisaari

Finland

for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

World

Al Gore

United States of America

for their contribution to building the economic and social foundations of the poor through bottom-up development initiatives

Muhammad Yunus

Bangladesh

Grameen Bank

Bangladesh

for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way

International Atomic Energy Agency

World

Mohamed ElBaradei

Egypt

for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace

Wangari Maathai

Kenya

for her efforts for democracy and human rights, with particular focus on the struggle for the rights of women and children

Shirin Ebadi

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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

Jimmy Carter

United States of America

for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world

United Nations

World

Kofi Annan

Ghana

for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular

Kim Dae-jung

Korea (the Republic of)

in recognition of the organisation's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents, in Africa, Asia, and South America

for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland

John Hume

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

David Trimble

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel landmines

International Campaign to Ban Landmines

World

Jody Williams

United States of America

for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor

Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

Timor-Leste

José Ramos-Horta

Timor-Leste

for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms

Joseph Rotblat

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

World

for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East

Yasser Arafat

Palestine, State of

Yitzhak Rabin

Israel

Shimon Peres

Israel

for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa

Nelson Mandela

South Africa

F. W. de Klerk

South Africa

for her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples

Rigoberta Menchú

Guatemala

for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights in Myanmar

Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar

for his leading role in ending the Cold War, signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and encouraging democratization in the Eastern Bloc through Perestroika

Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet Union

for advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people

The 14th Dalai Lama

Tibet

for their important contribution toward fulfilling the basic ideals of the United Nations

United Nations Peacekeeping Forces

World

for his dedicated efforts to achieve lasting peace in Central America, including mediation in the conflicts involving Nicaragua and El Salvador

Óscar Arias Sánchez

Costa Rica

for serving as Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Holocaust

Elie Wiesel

United States of America

for spreading authoritative information and creating awareness of the catastrophic consequences of nuclear war

for his role as a unifying leader figure in the non-violent campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa

Desmond Tutu

South Africa

for founding the trade union "Solidarity" and initiating the movement for democratization

Lech Wałęsa

Poland

for their monumental achievements and internationally recognized contributions in playing a pivotal role in United Nations disarmament negotiations

Alva Myrdal

Sweden

Alfonso García Robles

Mexico

for its efforts to improve the relocation, settlement and treatment of refugees and to promote their fundamental rights

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

World

for being a source of inspiration to repressed people, especially in Latin America

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

Argentina

for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity

Mother Teresa

India

for jointly having negotiated the Camp David Accords, achieving peace between Egypt and Israel

Anwar Sadat

Egypt

Menachem Begin

Israel

for denouncing the repression of the population under the Pinochet regime in Chile

for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland

Betty Williams

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Mairead Corrigan

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union, for disarmament and cooperation between all nations

Andrei Sakharov

Soviet Union

for his deep commitment to human rights, his role in drafting the European Convention on Human Rights through the Council of Europe, his help in founding Amnesty International, and his service as Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists

Seán MacBride

Ireland

for having jointly negotiated a ceasefire in Vietnam in 1973

Henry Kissinger

United States of America

Le Duc Tho

North Vietnam

for his Ostpolitik aimed at normalizing relations with East Germany and other Eastern European countries, paving the way for a meaningful dialogue between East and West

Willy Brandt

West Germany

for his efforts to alleviate the world food shortage through the Green Revolution

Norman Borlaug

United States of America

for creating international legislation ensuring certain norms for working conditions in every country

International Labour Organization

World

for the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

René Cassin

France

for its effort to enhance solidarity between nations and reduce the difference between rich and poor states as an international aid organization

United Nations Children's Fund

World

for his non-violent struggle to end racial prejudice in the United States

Martin Luther King Jr.

United States of America

for promoting the principles of the Geneva Conventions and cooperation with the United Nations

International Committee of the Red Cross

World

League of Red Cross Societies

World

for his fight against the nuclear arms race between East and West and for leading an international movement demanding a halt to nuclear testing and the pursuit of disarmament

Linus Pauling

United States of America

for developing the United Nations into an effective and constructive international organization, capable of giving life to the principles and aims expressed in the UN Charter

Dag Hammarskjöld

Sweden

As president of the African National Congress, Albert John Lutuli was at the forefront of South Africa’s non-violent struggle against apartheid.

Albert Lutuli

Union of South Africa

for his longstanding contribution to the cause of disarmament and peace

Philip Noel-Baker

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

for his efforts to help post-World War II refugees in Europe leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity

Dominique Pire

Belgium

for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis

Lester B. Pearson

Canada

for providing political and legal protection to refugees during the Cold War

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

World

for proposing and supervising the Marshall Plan for the economic recovery of Europe

George C. Marshall

United States of America

for his altruism, reverence for life, and tireless humanitarian work as a surgeon and physician in Lambaréné, which helped make the idea of brotherhood between men and nations a living one

Albert Schweitzer

West Germany

for his contribution to the establishment of the International Labour Organization

Léon Jouhaux

France

for his successful mediation in Palestine and his contribution to the armistice negotiations between the Arab states and Israel

Ralph Bunche

United States of America

for his service as Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and as chairman of the National Peace Council

John Boyd Orr

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

for their pioneering work in the international peace movement and compassionate effort to relieve human suffering, thereby promoting the fraternity between nations

Friends Service Council

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

American Friends Service Committee

United States of America

as Honorary International President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Emily Greene Balch

United States of America

for his pivotal role in drafting the United Nations Charter and his indefatigable work for international understanding

Cordell Hull

United States of America

for the great work it has performed during the war on behalf of humanity

International Committee of the Red Cross

World

for having carried on the work of Fridtjof Nansen to the benefit of refugees across Europe

Nansen International Office for Refugees

World

for his tireless effort in support of the League of Nations, disarmament and peace

Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

for mediating the conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Argentina

in recognition of his pacifist journalistic activities

Carl von Ossietzky

Greater German Reich

for his untiring struggle and courageous efforts as Chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1931–34

Arthur Henderson

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

for his authorship of “The Great Illusion,” his active support of the League of Nations, and his wide dissemination of anti-war arguments that fostered international peace

Norman Angell

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

for her leadership of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and her pioneering social reforms

Jane Addams

United States of America

for promoting Christian unity (ecumenism) and for his efforts to involve the Christian churches in the work for world peace

Nathan Söderblom

Sweden

for his crucial role in bringing about the Briand–Kellogg Pact

Frank B. Kellogg

United States of America

for their contribution to Franco-German reconciliation and the nurturing of public opinion favouring peaceful international cooperation

Ferdinand Buisson

France

Ludwig Quidde

German Reich

for their crucial role in bringing about the Locarno Treaty

Aristide Briand

France

Gustav Stresemann

German Reich

for his crucial role in bringing about the Locarno Treaties

Austen Chamberlain

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

for his leading role in the repatriation of prisoners of war and the relief of famine refugees

Fridtjof Nansen

Norway

for his contribution to the League of Nations

Karl Hjalmar Branting

Sweden

for his longstanding contribution to the cause of peace and justice and his prominent role in the establishment of the League of Nations, including serving as President of its first Assembly

Léon Bourgeois

France

for his role in founding the League of Nations

Woodrow Wilson

United States of America

for the efforts to take care of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war and their families

International Committee of the Red Cross

World

as a representative of the International Peace Bureau

Henri La Fontaine

Belgium

for his strong commitment to international arbitration and his draft proposal for an international court

Elihu Root

United States of America

Establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration

Tobias Asser

Netherlands

for acting as a link between the peace societies of the various countries and helping them to organize the world rallies of the international peace movement

International Peace Bureau

World

for serving as a delegate to two Hague Peace Conferences and for leading the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Auguste Beernaert

Belgium

for founding the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

Sweden

for his leadership as President of the Lombardy League for Peace and Arbitration

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Kingdom of Italy

for his role in bringing to an end the bloody war recently waged between two of the world's great powers, Japan and Russia

Theodore Roosevelt

United States of America

for her novel “Lay Down Your Arms!” and for her outstanding contribution to the peace movement

Bertha von Suttner

Austro-Hungarian Empire

for the Institute’s efforts to formulate general principles of international law and to draw attention to the need for clearer and more humane laws of war

Institut de Droit International

World

as Secretary of the International Arbitration League

William Randal Cremer

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

for his untiring and skilful directorship of the Bern Peace Bureau (International Peace Bureau)

Élie Ducommun

Switzerland

for founding the International Committee of the Red Cross and inspiring the adoption of the Geneva Convention

Henry Dunant

Switzerland