Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize along with prizes in physics, chemistry, medicine and literature was established in 1901 with funds bequeathed by Alfred Nobel, a pioneer in the development of industrial explosives. The prize, which is generally considered the most prestigious in the world, is awarded each year to individuals and organizations who are deemed to have done the most to advance the cause of world peace. "In addition to humanitarian efforts and peace movements, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded for work in a wide range of fields including advocacy of human rights, mediation of international conflicts, and arms control." In recent years, Kofi Annan, Jimmy Carter, Muhammad Yunus, Al Gore and Barack Obama have numbered among those awarded the prize. Earlier recipients have included Nicholas Murray Butler and Jane Addams

Recipients

• 2009 Barack Obama
• 2008 Martti Ahtisaari
• 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
• 2006 Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
• 2005 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei
• 2004 Wangari Muta Maathai
• 2003 Shirin Ebadi
• 2002 Jimmy Carter
• 2001 United Nations (U.N.), Kofi Annan
• 2000 Kim Dae-jung
• 1999 Médecins Sans Frontières
• 1998 John Hume, David Trimble
• 1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), Jody Williams
• 1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
• 1995 Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
• 1994 Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
• 1993 Nelson Mandela, Frederik Willem de Klerk
• 1992 Rigoberta Menchú Tum
• 1991 Aung San Suu Kyi
• 1990 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
• 1989 The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)