| 2023 |
Narges Mohammadi |
Iran |
“for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.” |
| 2022 |
Ales Bialiatski, Memorial, Centre for Civil Liberties |
Belarus, Russia, Ukraine |
"The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy." |
| 2021 |
Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov |
Philippines, Russia |
“for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a condition for democracy and lasting peace.” |
| 2020 |
World Food Programme (WFP) |
United Nations |
“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.” |
| 2019 |
Abiy Ahmed |
Ethiopia |
“for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.” |
| 2018 |
Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad |
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq |
“for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.” |
| 2017 |
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) |
Switzerland |
“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 on such weapons.” |
| 2016 |
Juan Manuel Santos |
Colombia |
“for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end.” |
| 2015 |
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet |
Tunisia |
“for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.” |
| 2014 |
Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai |
India, Pakistan |
“for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.” |
| 2013 |
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
Netherlands |
"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons." |
| 2012 |
European Union |
Europe |
"for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe." |
| 2011 |
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman |
Liberia, Liberia, Yemen |
"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work." |
| 2010 |
Liu Xiaobo |
China |
"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." |
| 2009 |
Barack Obama |
United States |
"for extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." |
| 2008 |
Martti Ahtisaari |
Finland |
"for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts." |
| 2007 |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Albert Arnold (Al) Gore, Jr. |
United Nations, United States |
"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." |
| 2006 |
Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank |
Bangladesh |
"for their efforts to create economic and social development from below" |
| 2005 |
International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei |
United Nations, Egypt |
"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." |
| 2004 |
Wangari Maathai |
Kenya |
"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace." |
| 2003 |
Shirin Ebadi |
Iran |
"for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children." |
| 2002 |
James Earl (Jimmy) Carter, Jr. |
United States |
"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" |
| 2001 |
United Nations, Kofi Annan |
United Nations, Ghana |
"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world." |
| 2000 |
Kim Dae Jung |
South Korea |
"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." |
| 1999 |
Médecins Sans Frontières |
Belgium |
"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents." |
| 1998 |
John Hume, David Trimble |
Ireland, United Kingdom |
"for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland" |
| 1997 |
International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams |
United States |
"for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines." |
| 1996 |
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta |
Timor-Leste |
"for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor." |
| 1995 |
Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs |
Poland, United Kingdom, Canada |
"for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms." |
| 1994 |
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin |
Palestinian Territories, Israel, Israel |
"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East." |
| 1993 |
Nelson Mandela, Frederik Willem de Klerk |
South Africa |
"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa." |
| 1992 |
Rigoberta Menchú |
Guatemala |
"in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples." |
| 1991 |
Aung San Suu Kyi |
Myanmar |
"for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights." |
| 1990 |
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev |
Soviet Union |
"for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community" |
| 1989 |
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama |
Tibet |
"for his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his people's struggle to regain their liberty." |
| 1988 |
United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces |
United Nations |
For participation in numerous conflicts since 1956. At the time of the award, 733 people from a variety of nations had lost their lives in peacekeeping efforts. |
| 1987 |
Óscar Arias Sánchez |
Costa Rica |
"for his 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 |
author, Holocaust survivor for his message of peace. |
| 1985 |
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War |
United States |
"for spreading authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare." |
| 1984 |
Desmond Mpilo Tutu |
South Africa |
for his leadership in the campaign to solve South Africa's apartheid problem by peaceful means. |
| 1983 |
Lech Wałęsa |
Poland |
Founder of Solidarność, campaigner for human rights |
| 1982 |
Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles |
Sweden, Mexico |
for their work in the disarmament negotiations of the United Nations, and informing world opinion on the problems of armaments. |
| 1981 |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
United Nations |
|
| 1980 |
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel |
Argentina |
for devoting many years of his life to the cause of human rights in Argentina and the whole of Latin America. |
| 1979 |
Mother Teresa |
Albania |
Poverty awareness campaigner |
| 1978 |
Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat, Menachem Begin |
Egypt, Israel |
for their contribution to the two frame agreements on peace in the Middle East, and on peace between Egypt and Israel. |
| 1977 |
Amnesty International |
United Kingdom |
to secure the release of political prisoners, and campaigning rigorously that no prisoner must be subjectd to torture or cruel and humiliating treatment, and finally for its campaign against capital punishment. |
| 1976 |
Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan |
United Kingdom |
Founders of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People). |
| 1975 |
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov |
Soviet Union |
Campaigns for human rights |
| 1974 |
Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato |
Ireland, Japan |
president of the International Peace Bureau the Commission of Namibia of the United Nations. |
| 1973 |
Henry A. Kissinger, Lê Ðức Thọ (declined) |
United States, North Vietnam |
The Vietnam peace accord |
| 1971 |
Willy Brandt |
West Germany |
"for West Germany's Ostpolitik, embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and East Germany." |
| 1970 |
Norman Borlaug |
United States |
"for research at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center." |
| 1969 |
International Labour Organization |
United Nations |
|
| 1968 |
René Cassin |
France |
President, European Court of Human Rights. |
| 1965 |
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) |
United Nations |
|
| 1964 |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
United States |
Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights. |
| 1963 |
International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross societies |
Switzerland |
|
| 1962 |
Linus Carl Pauling |
United States |
"for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing." |
| 1961 |
Dag Hammarskjöld |
Sweden |
Secretary-General, United Nations (posthumous) |
| 1960 |
Albert Lutuli |
South Africa |
President, African National Congress |
| 1959 |
Philip Noel-Baker |
United Kingdom |
"for his lifelong ardent work for international peace and co-operation." |
| 1958 |
Georges Pire |
Belgium |
leader of L'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde, a relief organization for refugees. |
| 1957 |
Lester Bowles Pearson |
Canada |
President of the 7th session of the United Nations General Assembly for introducing peacekeeping forces to resolve the Suez Crisis. |
| 1954 |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees |
United Nations |
|
| 1953 |
George Catlett Marshall |
United States |
for the Marshall Plan |
| 1952 |
Albert Schweitzer |
France |
for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding the Lambaréné Hospital in 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 UN. |
| 1950 |
Ralph Bunche |
United States |
for mediating in Palestine (1948) |
| 1949 |
Lord Boyd-Orr |
United Kingdom |
director general Food and Agricultural Organization, president National Peace Council, president World Union of Peace Organizations. |
| 1947 |
Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee |
United Kingdom, United States |
on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers. |
| 1946 |
Emily Greene Balch |
United States |
honorary international president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |
| 1946 |
John R. Mott |
United States |
chairman of the International Missionary Council and president of the World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations |
| 1945 |
Cordell Hull |
United States |
for co-initiating the United Nations. |
| 1944 |
International Committee of the Red Cross |
Switzerland |
awarded retroactively in 1945 |
| 1938 |
Nansen International Office For Refugees |
Switzerland |
|
| 1937 |
Robert Cecil |
United Kingdom |
founder and president of the International Peace Campaign |
| 1936 |
Carlos Saavedra Lamas |
Argentina |
president of the League of Nations and mediator in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia. |
| 1935 |
Carl von Ossietzky |
Germany |
pacifist journalist. |
| 1934 |
Arthur Henderson |
United Kingdom |
chairman of the League of Nations Disarmament Conference |
| 1933 |
Sir Norman Angell |
United Kingdom |
writer, member of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations and the National Peace Council. |
| 1931 |
Jane Addams |
United States |
international president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |
| 1931 |
Nicholas Murray Butler |
United States |
for promoting the Kellogg-Briand Pact. |
| 1930 |
Nathan Söderblom |
Sweden |
leader of the ecumenical movement. |
| 1929 |
Frank B. Kellogg |
United States |
for the Kellogg-Briand Pact. |
| 1927 |
Ferdinand Buisson |
France |
founder and President of the League for Human Rights. |
| 1927 |
Ludwig Quidde |
Germany |
delegate to numerous peace conferences. |
| 1926 |
Aristide Briand |
France |
for the Locarno Treaties. |
| 1926 |
Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
for the Locarno Treaties. |
| 1925 |
Austen Chamberlain |
United Kingdom |
for the Locarno Treaties. |
| 1925 |
Charles Gates Dawes |
United States |
chairman of the Allied Reparations Commission and originator of the Dawes Plan. |
| 1922 |
Fridtjof Nansen |
Norway |
Norwegian delegate to the League of Nations, originator of the Nansen passports for refugees. |
| 1921 |
Hjalmar Branting |
Sweden |
prime minister, Swedish delegate to the Council of the League of Nations. |
| 1921 |
Christian Lous Lange |
Norway |
Secretary-General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union |
| 1920 |
Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois |
France |
President of the Council of the League of Nations. |
| 1919 |
Woodrow Wilson |
United States |
President of the United States, as foremost promoter of the League of Nations. |
| 1917 |
International Committee of the Red Cross |
Switzerland |
|
| 1913 |
Henri La Fontaine |
Belgium |
President of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
| 1912 |
Elihu Root |
United States |
for initiating various arbitration agreements. |
| 1911 |
Tobias Michael Carel Asser |
Netherlands |
initiator of the International Conferences of Private Law in The Hague. |
| 1911 |
Alfred Hermann Fried |
Austria-Hungary |
founder of Die Waffen Nieder. |
| 1910 |
International Peace Bureau |
Switzerland |
Berne |
| 1909 |
Auguste Marie François Beernaert |
Belgium |
Member of the Cour Internationale d'Arbitrage. |
| 1909 |
Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant |
France |
Founder and president of the French parliamentary group for international arbitration. Founder of the Comité de défense des intérets nationaux et de conciliation internationale |
| 1908 |
Klas Pontus Arnoldson |
Sweden |
Founder, Swedish Peace and Arbitration Association |
| 1908 |
Fredrik Bajer |
Denmark |
Honorary President, Permanent International Peace Bureau |
| 1907 |
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta |
Italy |
President, Lombard League of Peace |
| 1907 |
Louis Renault |
France |
Professor of International Law |
| 1906 |
Theodore Roosevelt |
United States |
President of the United States, peace treaty collaborations (brokering the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War) |
| 1905 |
Bertha Sophie Felicitas Baronin von Suttner |
Austria-Hungary |
Honorary President, Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
| 1904 |
Institut de Droit International |
Belgium |
|
| 1903 |
William Randal Cremer |
United Kingdom |
Secretary, International Arbitration League. |
| 1902 |
Élie Ducommun, Charles Albert Gobat |
Switzerland |
Honorary secretaries, Permanent International Peace Bureau in Berne. |
| 1901 |
Frédéric Passy |
France |
Founder and President, Société d'arbitrage entre les Nations. |
| 1901 |
Henry Dunant |
Switzerland |
Founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva. |
