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# Nobel Prize/Peace

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Here are the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize upto now:

1901
  [Jean Henri Dunant]? (CH), founder of the [Red Cross]? and initiator of the [Geneva Convention]?.
  [Frédéric Passy]? (F), founder and president of the [[Societe Francaise pour l'arbitrage entre nations]].
1902
  [Élie Ducommun]? (CH) and [Charles Albert Gobat]?, honorary secretaries of the [Permanent International Peace Bureau]? in Berne.
1903
  Sir [William Randal Cremer]? (UK), secretary of the [International Arbitration League]?.
1904
  [Institut De Droit International]? (Gent, BE).
1905
  [Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita Von Suttner]?, née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau]] (A), writer, honorary president of the [Permanent International Peace Bureau]?.
1906
  [Theodore Roosevelt]? (USA), president of the United States, for drawing up the peace treaty in the [Russo-Japanese War]?.
1907
  [Ernesto Teodoro Moneta]? (I), president of the [Lombard League of Peace]?.
  [Louis Renault]? (F), professor International Law.
1908
  [Klas Pontus Arnoldson]? (S), founder of the [Swedish Peace and Arbitration League]?.
  [Fredrik Bajer]? (DK), honorary president of the [Permanent International Peace Bureau]?.
1909
  [Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert]? (BE), member of the [Cour Internationale d'Arbitrage]?.
  [Paul Henribenjamin Balluet D'estournelles De Constant, Baron De Constant De Rebecque]? (F), founder and president of the French parliamentary group for international arbitration. Founder of the [Comité de défense des intérêts nationaux et de conciliation internationale]?
1910
  Bureau International Permanent De La Paix ([Permanent International Peace Bureau]?), Berne.
1911
  [Tobias Michael Carel Asser]? (NL), initiator of the [International Conferences of Private Law]? in The Hague.
  [Alfred Hermann Fried]? (A), founder of [Die Waffen Nieder]?.
1912
  [[Elihu Root] (USA), for initiating various arbitration agreements.
1913
  [Henri La Fontaine]? (BE), president of the [Permanent International Peace Bureau]?.
1914-1916
  Not awarded.
1917
  International [Red Cros]?, Geneva.
1918
  Not awarded.
1919
  [Thomas Woodrow Wilson]? (USA) for founding the League of Nations.
1920
  [Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois]?, president of the Council of the League of Nations.
1921
  [Karl Hjalmar Branting]? (S), prime minister, Swedish delegate to the Council of the League of Nations.
  [Christian Lous Lange]? (N), secretary-general of the [Inter-Parliamentary Union]?
1922
  [Fridtjof Nansen]? (N), Norwegian delegate to the League of Nations, originator of the [Nansen passports]? for refugees.
1923-1924
  Not awarded.
1925
  Sir [Austen Chamberlain]? (UK) for the [Locarno Treaty]?.
  [Charles Gates Dawes]? (USA), chairman of the [Allied Reparation Commission]? and originater of the [Dawes Plan]?.
1926
  [Artistide Briand]? (F) for the [Locarno Treaty]? and the [Briand-Kellogg Pact]?.
  [Gustav Stresemann]? (D) for the [Locarno Treaty]?.
1927
  [Ferdinand Buisson]? (F), founder and president of the [League for Human Rights]?.
  [Ludwig Quidde]? (D), delegate to numerous peace conferences.
1928
  Not awarded.
1929
  [Frank Billings Kellogg]? (USA) for the [Briand-Kellogg Pact]?.
1930
  Archbishop [Lars Olof Nathan (Jonathan) Söderblom]? (S), leader of the ecumenical movement.
1931
  [Jane Addams]? (USA), international president of the [Women's International League for Peace and Freedom]?
  [Nicholas Murray Butler]? (USA) for promoting the [Briand-Kellogg Pact]?.
1932
  Not awarded.
1933
  [Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane)]? (UK), writer, member of the Executive Committee of the League of Nations and the [National Peace Council]?.
1934
  [Arthur Henderson]? (UK), chairman of the League of Nations [Disarmament Conference]?
1935
  [Carl Von Ossietzky]? (D), pacifistic journalist.
1936
  [Carlos Saavedra Lamas]? (Arg), president of the League of Nations and mediator in a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia.
1937
  [Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)]?, founder and president of the [International Peace Campaign]?.
1938
  [Nansen International Office For Refugees]?, Geneva.
1939-1943
  Not awarded.
1944
  International Committee of the [Red Cross]?.
1945
  [Cordell Hull]? (USA) for co-initiating the United Nations.
1946
  [Emily Greene Balch]? (USA), honorary international president [Women's International League for Peace and Freedom]?
  [John Raleigh Mott]? (USA), chairman [International Missionary Council]? and president [World Alliance of Young Men's Christian Associations]?
1947
  The Friends Service Council (UK) and The American Friends Service Committee (USA), on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers?.
1948
  Not awarded.
1949
  [Lord John Boyd Orr of Brechin]? (UK), director [General Food and Agricultural Organization]?, president [National Peace Council]?, president [World Union of Peace Organizations]?.
1950
  [Ralph Bunche]? for mediating in Palestina? (1948).
1951
  [Léon Jouhaux]? (F), 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.
1952
  Albert Schweitzer (F) for founding the [Lambarene Hospital]? in Gabon.
1953
  [George Catlett Marshall]? (USA) for the [Marshall Plan]?.
1954
  The Office of the United Nations [High Commissioner For Refugees]?.
1955-1956
  Not awarded.
1957
  Lester Bowles Pearson (CAN), president of the 7th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
1958
  George Henri Pire (B), leader of [l'Europe du Coeur au Service du Monde]?, a relief organization for refugees.
1959
  [Philip J. Noel-Baker]? (UK), for his lifelong ardent work for international peace and co-operation.
1960
  [Albert John Lutuli]? (RSA), president of the ANC? (African National Congress).
1961
  [Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld]? (S), secretary-general of the UN (awarded posthumously).
1962
  [Linus Carl Pauling]? (USA) for his campaign against nuclear weapons test.
1963
  International Committee of the [Red Cross]?, Geneva.
  League of [Red Cross]? Societies, Geneva.
1964
  [Martin Luther King Jr]?, campaigner for civil rights.
1965
  [United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF)]?
1966-1967
  Not Awarded.
1968
  [René Cassin]? (F), president of the [European Court for Human Rights]?.
1969
  [International Labour Organization]? (I.L.O.), Geneva.
1970
  [Norman Borlaug]? (USA), for research at the [International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center]?.
1971
  [Willy Brandt]? (D), for [West Germany]?'s Ostpolitik, embodying a new attitude towards Eastern Europe and [East Germany]?.
1972
  Not awarded.
1973
  [Henry A. Kissinger]? (USA) and [LeDuc Tho]? (Vietnam, declined) for the Vietnam peace accord.
1974
  [Séan Mac Bride]? (IRL), president of the [International Peace Bureau]? and the Commission of Namabia? of the United Nations.
  [Eisaku Sato]? (J), prime minister.
1975
  [Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov]? (USSR) for his campaigning for human rights.
1976
  [Betty Williams]? and [Mairead Corrigan]?, founders of the [Northern Ireland Peace Movement]? (later renamed [Community of Peace People]?).
1977
  [Amnesty International]?, London.
1978
  [Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat]? (Egypt) and [Menachem Begin]? (Israel) for negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.
1979
  [Mother Theresa]? (India)
1980
  [Adolfo perez Esquivel]? (Argentina), human rights leader.
1981
  The Office of the United Nations [High Commissioner For Refugees]?.
1982
  [Alva Myrdal]? (S) and [Alfonso García Robles]? (Mexico), delegates to the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament.
1983
  [Lech Walesa]? (Poland), founder of Solidarnosc? and campaigner for human rights.
1984
  Bishop [Desmond Mpilo Tutu]? (South Africa) for his work against apartheid.
1985
  [International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War]?, Boston.
1986
  [Elie Wiesel]? (USA).
1987
  [Oscar Arias Sanchez]? (Costa Rica) for initiating peace negotations in [Central America]?.
1988
  The United Nations [Peace-Keeping Forces]?, New York.
1989
  Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
1990
  [Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev]? (USSR) for helping to end the Cold War.
1991
  [Aung San Suu Kyi]? (Burma), oppositional leader and human rights advocate.
1992
  [Rigoberta Menchu Tum]? (Guatemala), for campaigning for human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.
1993
  [Nelson Mandela]? (RSA) and [Frederik Willem De Klerk]? (RSA).
1994
  [Yasser Arafat]? (Palestina), [Shimon Peres]? (Israel) and [Yitzhak Rabin]? (Israel).
1995
  [Joseph Rotblat]? (Poland/UK) and the Pugwash? Conferences on Science and World Affairs, for their efforts in the fight against nuclear arms.
1996
  [Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo]? (East Timor) and [Jose Ramos-Horta]? (East Timor) for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
1997
  [International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)]? and [Jody Williams]? (USA) for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
1998
  [John Hume]? (UK) and [David Trimble]? (UK) for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
1999
  [Doctors Without Borders]?, Brussels.
2000
  [Kim Dae Jung]? (S.Korea) for his work for democracy and human rights, and in particular for peace and reconciliation with North Korea.

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