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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

David Trimble

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

John Hume

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

Shimon Peres

Israel

Yasser Arafat

Palestine, State of

Yitzhak Rabin

Israel

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

F. W. de Klerk

South Africa

Nelson Mandela

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

Alfonso García Robles

Mexico

Alva Myrdal

Sweden

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 advocating the Three Non-Nuclear Principles

Eisaku Sato

Japan

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