Peace Museum in Ukraine

Peace Museum in Kyiv

Музей Миру в Києві

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Vasyl Yan Library
13 Myru Avn., Kyiv, 02105
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List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates

The Nobel Peace Prize 2022

This year’s Peace Prize is awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties.

Presentation Speech by Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Oslo, 10 December 2022.
Nobel Lecture given by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2022 Center for Civil Liberties, delivered by Oleksandra Matviichuk, Oslo, 10 December 2022.

List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates

Year	Laureate	Country	Rationale
1901	Henry Dunant	Switzerland	"for his humanitarian efforts to help wounded soldiers and create international understanding"
1901	Frédéric Passy	France	"for his lifelong work for international peace conferences, diplomacy and arbitration."
1902	Élie Ducommun	Switzerland	"for his role as the first honorary secretary of the International Peace Bureau."
1902	Charles Albert Gobat	Switzerland	"for his role as the first Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Union."
1903	William Randal Cremer	United Kingdom	"for his role as the "first father" of the Inter-Parliamentary Union."
1904	Institute of International Law	Belgium	"for its efforts as an unofficial body to formulate the general principles of the science of international law."
1905	Bertha von Suttner	Austria-Hungary	"for writing Lay Down Your Arms and contributing to the creation of the Prize."
1906	Theodore Roosevelt	United States	"for his successful mediation to end the Russo-Japanese war and for his interest in arbitration, having provided the Hague arbitration court with its very first case."
1907	Louis Renault	France	"for his work as a leading French international jurist and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague."
1907	Ernesto Teodoro Moneta	Italy	"for his work as a key leader of the Italian peace movement."
1908	Klas Pontus Arnoldson	Sweden	"for his work as founder of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration League."
1908	Fredrik Bajer	Denmark	"for being the foremost peace advocate in Scandinavia, combining work in the Inter-Parliamentary Union with being the first president of the International Peace Bureau."
1909	Auguste Beernaert	Belgium	"for being a representative to the two Hague conferences, and a leading figure in the Inter-Parliamentary Union."
1909	Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant	France	"for combined diplomatic work for Franco-German and Franco-British understanding with a distinguished career in international arbitration."
1910	Permanent International Peace Bureau	Switzerland	"for acting as a link between the peace societies of the various countries."
1911	Tobias Asser	Netherlands	"for being a member of the Court of Arbitration as well as the initiator of the Conferences on International Private Law."
1911	Alfred Fried	Austria-Hungary	"for his work as founder of the German Peace Society."
1912	Elihu Root	United States	"for his strong interest in international arbitration and for his plan for a world court."
1913	Henri La Fontaine	Belgium	"for his work as head of the International Peace Bureau."
1914	Not awarded due to World War I.
1915	Not awarded due to World War I.
1916	Not awarded due to World War I.
1917	International Committee of the Red Cross		"for the efforts to take care of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war and their families."
1918	Not awarded due to World War I.
1919	Woodrow Wilson	United States	"for his crucial role in establishing the League of Nations"
1920	Léon Bourgeois	France	"for his participation in both the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907 and for his work towards what became the League to such an extent that he was frequently called its 'spiritual father'."
1921	Hjalmar Branting	Sweden	"for his work in the League of Nations."
1921	Christian Lange	Norway	"for his work as the first secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary Union."
1922	Fridtjof Nansen	Norway	"for his work in aiding the millions in Russia struggling against famine and for the refugees in Asia Minor and Thrace."
1923	Not awarded
1924	Not awarded
1925	Sir Austen Chamberlain	United Kingdom	"for his work on the Locarno Treaties."[
1925	Charles Gates Dawes	United States	"for his work on the Dawes Plan for German reparations which was seen as having provided the economic underpinning of the Locarno Pact of 1925."
1926	Aristide Briand	France	"for their work on the Locarno Treaties."
1926	Gustav Stresemann	Germany	"for their work on the Locarno Treaties."
1927	Ferdinand Buisson	France	"for their contributions to Franco-German popular reconciliation."
1927	Ludwig Quidde	Germany
1928	Not awarded
1929	Frank Billings Kellogg	United States	"for the Kellogg-Briand pact, whose signatories agreed to settle all conflicts by peaceful means and renounced war as an instrument of national policy."
1930	Nathan Söderblom	Sweden	"for his efforts to involve the churches not only in work for ecumenical unity, but also for world peace."
1931	Jane Addams	United States	"for her social reform work and leading the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom."
1931	Nicholas Murray Butler	United States	"for his promotion of the Briand-Kellogg pact and for his work as the leader of the more establishment-oriented part of the American peace movement."
1932	Not awarded
1933	Sir Norman Angell	United Kingdom	"for authoring The Great Illusion and for being a supporter of the League of Nations as well as an influential publicist and educator for peace in general."
1934	Arthur Henderson	United Kingdom	"for his work for the League, particularly its efforts in disarmament."
1935	Carl von Ossietzky	Germany	"for his struggle against Germany's rearmament."
1936	Carlos Saavedra Lamas	Argentina	"for his mediation of an end to the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia."
1937	The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood	United Kingdom	"for his work with the League of Nations."
1938	Nansen International Office for Refugees	League of Nations	"for its work in aiding refugees."
1939	Not awarded due to World War II.
1940	Not awarded due to World War II.
1941	Not awarded due to World War II.
1942	Not awarded due to World War II.
1943	Not awarded due to World War II.
1944	International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland	"for the great work it has performed during the war in behalf of humanity."
1945	Cordell Hull	United States	"for his fight against isolationism at home, his efforts to create a peace bloc of states on the American continents, and his work for the United Nations Organization."
1946	Emily Greene Balch	United States	"for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom."
1946	John Raleigh Mott	United States	"for establishing and strengthening international Protestant Christian student organizations that worked to promote peace."
1947	The Quakers (represented by Friends Service Council and American Friends Service Committee)	United States & United Kingdom	"for their work in assisting and rescuing victims of the Nazis."
1948	Not awarded because "there was no suitable living candidate." (A tribute to the recently assassinated Gandhi in India.)
1949	The Lord Boyd-Orr	United Kingdom	"for his scientific research into nutrition and his works as the first Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization."
1950	Ralph Bunche	United States	"for his works in resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine."
1951	Léon Jouhaux	France	"for his work on social equality and Franco-German renconciliation."
1952	Albert Schweitzer	France	"for his propagation for the reverence of life, the very foundations of a lasting peace between individuals, nations, and races."
1953	George Catlett Marshall Jr.	United States	"for his work on the post-war European recovery."
1954	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	United Nations	"for protecting refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people, and assisting in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country."
1955	Not awarded
1956	Not awarded
1957	Lester Bowles Pearson	Canada	"for his role in helping end the Suez conflict and trying to solve the Middle East question through the United Nations."
1958	Dominique Pire	Belgium	"for his work in helping refugees in the post-World War II Europe."
1959	Philip Noel-Baker	United Kingdom	"for his lifelong work for international peace and cooperation."
1960	Albert Lutuli	South Africa	"for his role in the non-violent struggle against apartheid in South Africa."
1961	Dag Hammarskjöld	Sweden	"for strengthening the foundations of the United Nations Organization."
1962	Linus Pauling	United States	"for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing."
1963	International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland	"for their work in the protection of human rights in the ICRC's 100 years of existence."
1963	League of Red Cross Societies	Switzerland
1964	Martin Luther King, Jr.	United States	"for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance."
1965	United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)	United States	"for their efforts in providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide."
1966	Not awarded
1967	Not awarded
1968	René Cassin	France	"for creating the first full draft of the Universal Declaration and his work in the European Court for Human Rights."
1969	International Labour Organization	United Nations	"for improving fraternity and peace among nations, pursuing decent work and justice for workers, and providing technical assistance to other developing nations."
1970	Norman Ernest Borlaug	United States	"for his contributions to the 'green revolution' that was having such an impact on food production, particularly in Asia and Latin America."
1971	Willy Brandt	Germany	"for his efforts to strengthen cooperation in Western Europe through the European Economic Community and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the other countries of Eastern Europe."
1972	Not awarded
1973	Henry Kissinger	United States	"for the 1973 Paris agreement intended to bring about a cease-fire in the Vietnam war and a withdrawal of the American forces."
1973	Lê Đức Thọ	North Vietnam
1974	Seán MacBride	Ireland	"for his strong interest in human rights by piloting the European Convention on Human Rights through the Council of Europe, helping found and then lead Amnesty International and serving as secretary-general of the International Commission of Jurists."
1974	Eisaku Satō	Japan	"for his renunciation of the nuclear option for Japan and his efforts to further regional reconciliation."
1975	Andrei Sakharov	Soviet Union	"for his struggle for human rights, for disarmament, and for cooperation between all nations."
1976	Betty Williams	United Kingdom	"for their works as cofounders of Community of Peace People, an organization dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland."
1976	Mairead Corrigan	United Kingdom
1977	Amnesty International	United Kingdom	"for protecting the human rights of prisoners of conscience."
1978	Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat	Egypt	"for the Camp David Agreement, which brought about a negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel" Sadat was assassinated in 1981."
1978	Menachem Begin	Israel
1979	Mother Teresa	India (Born in Macedonia)	"for her work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace."
1980	Adolfo Pérez Esquivel	Argentina	"for his efforts in the defense of human rights and for his opposition to Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship."
1981	Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	United Nations	"for its effective and continuous work on refugees."
1982	Alva Myrdal	Sweden	"for their magnificent work in the disarmament negotiations of the United Nations, where they have both played crucial roles and won international recognition."
1982	Alfonso García Robles	Mexico
1983	Lech Wałęsa	Poland	"for his contribution and considerable personal sacrifice to ensure the workers' right to establish their own organizations."
1984	Desmond Tutu	South Africa	"for his role as a unifying leader-figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa."
1985	International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War	United States	"for their authoritative information and by creating an awareness of the catastrophic consequences of atomic warfare."
1986	Elie Wiesel	United States	"for his tireless efforts and speaking out against violence, repression and racism."
1987	Óscar Arias	Costa Rica	"for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year."
1988	United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces	United Nations	"for their efforts [that] have made important contributions towards the realization of one of the fundamental tenets of the United Nations."
1989	Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama	India (Born in Tibet)	"for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet and advocating peaceful solutions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people."
1990	Mikhail Gorbachev	Soviet Union	"for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community."
1991	Aung San Suu Kyi	Burma	"for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights."
1992	Rigoberta Menchú	Guatemala	"for her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples."
1993	Nelson Mandela	South Africa	"for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa."
1993	Frederik Willem de Klerk	South Africa
1994	Yasser Arafat	Palestine	"to honour a political act which called for great courage on both sides, and which has opened up opportunities for a new development towards fraternity in the Middle East."
	Yitzhak Rabin	Israel
	Shimon Peres	Israel
1995	Joseph Rotblat	Poland	"for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms."
1995	Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs	Canada
1996	Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo	East Timor	"for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor."
1996	José Ramos-Horta	East Timor
1997	International Campaign to Ban Landmines	Switzerland	"for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines."
1997	Jody Williams	United States
1998	John Hume	Ireland	"for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland."
1998	David Trimble	United Kingdom
1999	Médecins Sans Frontières	France	"in recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents."
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."
2001	United Nations	United Nations	"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world."
2001	Kofi Annan	Ghana
2002	Jimmy Carter	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."
2003	Shirin Ebadi	Iran	"for her efforts for democracy and human rights, focused especially on the rights of women and children."
2004	Wangari Muta Maathai	Kenya	"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace."
2005	International Atomic Energy Agency	United Nations	"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."
2005	Mohamed ElBaradei	Egypt
2006	Muhammad Yunus	Bangladesh	"for advancing economic and social opportunities for the poor, especially women, through their pioneering microcredit work."
2006	Grameen Bank	Bangladesh
2007	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change	United Nations	"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."
2007	Al Gore	United States
2008	Martti Ahtisaari	Finland	"for his efforts on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts."
2009	Barack Obama	United States	"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
2010	Liu Xiaobo	China	"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China."
2011	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf	Liberia	"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."
	Leymah Gbowee	Liberia
	Tawakkul Karman	Yemen
2012	European Union	European Union	"for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe."
2013	Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons	Netherlands	"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons."
2014	Kailash Satyarthi	India	"for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."
2014	Malala Yousafzai	Pakistan
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."
2016	Juan Manuel Santos	Colombia	"for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people."
2017	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons	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 of such weapons."
2018	Denis Mukwege	Democratic Republic of the Congo	"for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."
2018	Nadia Murad	Iraq
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."
2020	World Food Programme	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."