The Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine and Literature.

Since March 1901, it has been awarded🎨 annually (with some exceptions) to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".

Mahatma Gandhi Statue on Marina Chennai, India 1954 | Roy Chowdhury (1899-1975) | Indian sculptor

Mahatma Gandhi Statue on Marina Chennai, India 1954 | D. P. Roy Chowdhury 1899-1975 | Indian sculptor

Mahatma Gandhi Statue on Marina Chennai, India 1954, Roy Chowdhury (1899-1975) | Indian sculptor

Mahatma Gandhi Statue on Marina Chennai, India 1954 | Roy Chowdhury (1899-1975) | Indian sculptor

Nobel Prize medal

All Nobel Peace Prizes

The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 - The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has not been awarded yet. It will be announced on Friday 11 October, 11:00 a.m.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2018 - Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2017 - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) “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”
The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 - Juan Manuel Santos “for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 - National Dialogue Quartet “for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 - Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2013 - Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) “for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 - European Union (EU) “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2011 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 - Liu Xiaobo “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 - Barack H. Obama”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2008 - Martti Ahtisaari “for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. “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”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2006 - Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei “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”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2004 - Wangari Muta Maathai “for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2003 - Shirin Ebadi “for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2002 - Jimmy Carter “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”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2001 - United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2000 - Kim Dae-jung “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”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières “in recognition of the organization’s pioneering humanitarian work on several continents”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1998 - John Hume and David Trimble “for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and Jody Williams “for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta “for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1995 - Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1993 - Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk “for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum “in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1990 - Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev “for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez “for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year”.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1986 - Elie Wiesel.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1984 - Desmond Mpilo Tutu.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1983 - Lech Walesa.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1982 - Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1979 - Mother Teresa.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1978 - Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat and Menachem Begin.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1977 - Amnesty International.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1976 - Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1975 - Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1974 - Seán MacBride and Eisaku Sato.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1973 - Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1972 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1971 - Willy Brandt.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 - Norman E. Borlaug.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1969 - International Labour Organization (I.L.O.)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1968 - René Cassin.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1967 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1966 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1965 - United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 - Martin Luther King Jr.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1963 - Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) and Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1962 - Linus Carl Pauling.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1961 - Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1960 - Albert John Lutuli.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1959 - Philip J. Noel-Baker.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1958 - Georges Pire.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1957 - Lester Bowles Pearson.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1956 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1955 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1954 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1953 - George Catlett Marshall.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1952 - Albert Schweitzer.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1951 - Léon Jouhaux.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1950 - Ralph Bunche.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1949 - Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1948 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1947 - Friends Service Council (The Quakers) and American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1946 - Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1945 - Cordell Hull.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1944 - Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1943 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1942 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1941 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1940 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1939 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1938 - Office international Nansen pour les Réfugiés (Nansen International Office for Refugees)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1937 - Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1936 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1935 - Carl von Ossietzky.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1934 - Arthur Henderson.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1933 - Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)
The Nobel Peace Prize 1932 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1931 - Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1930 - Lars Olof Jonathan (Nathan) Söderblom.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1929 - Frank Billings Kellogg.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1928 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1927 - Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1926 - Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1925 - Sir Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1924 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1923 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1922 - Fridtjof Nansen.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1921 - Karl Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1920 - Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1919 - Thomas Woodrow Wilson.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1918 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1917 - Comité international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1916 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1915 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1914 - No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1913 - Henri La Fontaine.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1912 - Elihu Root.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser and Alfred Hermann Fried.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1910 - Bureau international permanent de la Paix (Permanent International Peace Bureau).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1909 - Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant, Baron de Constant de Rebecque.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1908 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1907 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1905 - Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1904 - Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law).
The Nobel Peace Prize 1903 - William Randal Cremer.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1902 - Élie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat.
The Nobel Peace Prize 1901 - Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy.

Mahatma Gandhi Statue on Marina Chennai, India 1954 | Roy Chowdhury (1899-1975) | Indian sculptor

Il Premio Nobel per la Pace è stato previsto nel testamento di Alfred Nobel 1833-1896 nel 1895 ed è stato assegnato per la prima volta nel 1901, come gli altri premi previsti da Nobel stesso.

La cerimonia di consegna del Nobel per la Pace si tiene ad Oslo.

L'assegnazione del premio non si è svolta in 19 occasioni:

Durante la prima guerra mondiale: 1914, 1915, 1916 e nel 1918, mentre nel 1917 venne assegnato alla Croce Rossa Internazionale;
Negli anni difficili tra le due guerre mondiali: 1923, 1924, 1928 e 1932;
Durante la seconda guerra mondiale: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942 e 1943, mentre nel 1944 venne assegnato alla Croce Rossa Internazionale, come durante il primo conflitto mondiale;
Negli anni della guerra fredda, 1948, 1955, 1956 e la guerra del Vietnam 1966, 1967, 1972.

Nazioni - Numero di Premi