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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the person " who shall have done the most or the good work for fraternity between land , the abolishment or step-down of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of pacification relation . "

Here are the Nobel Peace Prize winners from 1901 to present :

Ethiopia�s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks during mediating talks with a delegation of the Alliance of Freedom and Change, after ruling military council intervened the pro-democracy demonstrators that left more than 100 people dead, at the Ethiopian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 7, 2019.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks during mediating talks with a delegation of the Alliance of Freedom and Change, after ruling military council intervened the pro-democracy demonstrators that left more than 100 people dead, at the Ethiopian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, on 19 February 2025.

2019 : Abiy Ahmed Ali , Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia , " for his efforts to achieve peace and external cooperation , and in particular for his critical initiative to correct the border struggle with neighboring Eritrea , " consort to the Norwegian Nobel Committee . When Olav Njølstad , secretary of the Nobel Committee , called Ali to tell him the news , the prime minster responded : " I was so humbled and thrilled when I just get word the news . "

2018 : Denis MukwegeandNadia Murad"for their efforts to terminate the employment of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict . "

2017 : outside Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ( ICAN)“for its body of work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any utilisation of nuclear weapon and for its ground - break efforts to achieve a accord - base proscription of such weapons . "

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2016 : Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos " for his resolute drive to institute the country ’s more than 50 - year - long civic warfare to an end , a war that has cost the life of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced tight to 6 million the great unwashed , " allot toa statement by the Nobel Foundation .

2015 : The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for " its decisive share to the edifice of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011,“according to the Swedish Academy .

2014 : Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay , " for their struggle against the suppression of childrenand young people and for the rightfulness of all children to didactics . "

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2013 : organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ) , " for its all-embracing efforts toeliminate chemical arm . "

2012 : European Union , " for over six decades add to the advancement of peace and reconciliation , democracy and human right in Europe . "

2011 :   Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman " for their non - crimson strugglefor the safety of womenand for women ’s rightfield to full participation in peacefulness - building body of work . "

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2010 : Liu Xiaobo , " for his long and non - violent struggle for key human right wing inChina . "

2009 : Barack H. Obama , " for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international statesmanship and cooperation between people . "

2008 : Martti Ahtisaari , " for his important efforts , on several continents and over more than three decades , to resolve external conflicts . "

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2007 : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) , Albert Arnold ( Al ) Gore Jr. , " for their efforts to construct up and circularise large knowledge about man - made clime alteration , and to lay the foundations for the measures that are ask to counteract such change . "

2006 : Muhammad Yunus , Grameen Bank , " for their endeavor to make economic and societal development from below . "

2005 : International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , Mohamed ElBaradei , " for their efforts to keep nuclear energy from being used for military design and to ensure that atomic energy for peaceful function is used in the safest potential way . "

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2004 : Wangari Muta Maathai , " for her donation to sustainable evolution , republic and peacefulness . "

2003 : Shirin Ebadi , " for her attempt for republic and human rights . She has focalize especially on the struggle for the rights of charwoman and children . "

2002 : Jimmy Carter , " for his decades of untiring effort to retrieve passive solutions to external conflicts , to make headway democracy and human right , and to promote economic and social development . "

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2001 : United Nations ( U.N. ) , Kofi Annan , " for their work for a well organized and more peaceable world . "

2000 : Kim Dae - jung , " for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in ecumenical , and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular . "

1999 : Médecins Sans Frontières , " in recognition of the establishment ’s initiate humanitarian work on several Continent . "

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1998 : John Hume , David Trimble , " for their elbow grease to encounter a passive solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland . "

1997 : external crusade to Ban Landmines ( ICBL ) , Jody Williams , " for their work for the forbiddance and clearing of anti - personnel mine . "

1996 : Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo , José Ramos - Horta , " for their work towards a just and passive solution to the dispute in East Timor . "

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1995 : Joseph Rotblat , Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs , " for their effort to belittle the part played by nuclear sleeve in international politics and , in the longer run , to excrete such arms . "

1994 : Yasser Arafat , Shimon Peres , Yitzhak Rabin , " for their efforts to produce peace in the Middle East . "

1993 : Nelson Mandela , Frederik Willem de Klerk , " for their workplace for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regimen , and for set the foundations for a Modern democratic South Africa . "

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1992 : Rigoberta Menchú Tum , " in recognition of her work for social judge and ethno - cultural reconciliation based on respectfulness for the right of autochthonic people . "

1991 : Aung San Suu Kyi , " for her non - red battle for democracy and human right . "

1990 : Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev , " for his leading part in the peace treaty process which today characterizes important function of the international community . "

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1989 : The 14th Dalai Lama ( Tenzin Gyatso )

1988 : United Nations Peacekeeping Forces

1987 : Oscar Arias Sánchez , " for his work for peace in Central America , efforts which led to the accord sign in Guatemala on August 7 this class . "

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1986 : Elie Wiesel

1985 : International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

1984 : Desmond Mpilo Tutu

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1983 : Lech Walesa

1982 : Alva Myrdal , Alfonso García Robles

1981 : Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR )

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1980 : Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

1979 : Mother Teresa

1978 : Mohamed Anwar al - Sadat , Menachem Begin

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1977 : Amnesty International

1976 : Betty Williams , Mairead Corrigan

1975 : Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

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1974 : Seán MacBride , Eisaku Sato

1973 : Henry A. Kissinger , Le Duc Tho

1972 : NoNobel Prizeawarded

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1971 : Willy Brandt

1970 : Norman E. Borlaug

1969 : International Labour Organization ( I.L.O. )

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1968 : René Cassin

1967 : No Nobel Prize award

1966 : No Nobel Prize awarded

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1965 : United Nations Children ’s Fund ( UNICEF )

1964 : Martin Luther King Jr.

1963 : Comité international de la Croix Rouge ( International Committee of the Red Cross ) , Ligue des Sociétés de la Croix - Rouge ( League of Red Cross Societies )

1962 : Linus Carl Pauling

1961 : Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

1960 : Albert John Lutuli

1959 : Philip J. Noel - Baker

1958 : Georges Pire

1957 : Lester Bowles Pearson

1956 : No Nobel Prize grant

1955 : No Nobel Prize awarded

1954 : Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR )

1953 : George Catlett Marshall

1952 : Albert Schweitzer

1951 : Léon Jouhaux

1950 : Ralph Bunche

1949 : Lord ( John ) Boyd Orr of Brechin

1948 : No Nobel Prize awarded

1947 : Friends Service Council ( The Quakers ) , American Friends Service Committee ( The Quakers )

1946 : Emily Greene Balch , John Raleigh Mott

1945 : Cordell Hull

1944 : Comité international de la Croix Rouge ( International Committee of the Red Cross )

1943 : No Nobel Prize grant

1942 : No Nobel Prize award

1941 : No Nobel Prize award

1940 : No Nobel Prize awarded

1939 : No Nobel Prize present

1938 : agency international Nansen pour les Réfugiés ( Nansen International Office for Refugees )

1937 : Cecil of Chelwood , Viscount ( Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil )

1936 : Carlos Saavedra Lamas

1935 : Carl von Ossietzky

1934 : Arthur Henderson

1933 : Sir Norman Angell ( Ralph Lane )

1932 : No Nobel Prize award

1931 : Jane Addams , Nicholas Murray Butler

1930 : Lars Olof Jonathan ( Nathan ) Söderblom

1929 : Frank Billings Kellogg

1928 : No Nobel Prize present

1927 : Ferdinand Buisson , Ludwig Quidde

1926 : Aristide Briand , Gustav Stresemann

1925 : Sir Austen Chamberlain , Charles Gates Dawes

1924 : No Nobel Prize awarded

1923 : No Nobel Prize present

1922 : Fridtjof Nansen

1921 : Karl Hjalmar Branting , Christian Lous Lange

1920 : Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois

1919 : Thomas Woodrow Wilson

1918 : No Nobel Prize award

1917 : Comité international de la Croix Rouge ( International Committee of the Red Cross )

1916 : No Nobel Prize present

1915 : No Nobel Prize awarded

1914 : No Nobel Prize award

1913 : Henri La Fontaine

1912 : Elihu Root

1911 : Tobias Michael Carel Asser , Alfred Hermann Fried

1910 : Bureau international permanent de la Paix ( Permanent International Peace Bureau )

1909 : Auguste Marie François Beernaert , Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant , Baron de Constant de Rebecque

1908 : Klas Pontus Arnoldson , Fredrik Bajer

1907 : Ernesto Teodoro Moneta , Louis Renault

1906 : Theodore Roosevelt

1905 : Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner , née Countess Kinsky von Chinic und Tettau

1904 : Institut de droit international ( Institute of International Law )

1903 : William Randal Cremer

1902 : Élie Ducommun , Charles Albert Gobat

1901 : Jean Henry Dunant , Frédéric Passy