Kailash Satyarthi

The Nobel Peace Prize 2014

Co-nobelist: Malala Yousafzai

Prize motivation: “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.”

Leymah Gbowee MA [Major: Conflict Transformation]

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011

Nobel Co-recipients Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Tawakkol Karman

Liberian peace activist, social worker, women’s rights advocate. Brought together Christian and Muslim women in a nonviolent movement that played a pivotal role in ending Liberia’s civil war. Founder, Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa.

“Went from being an angry, broke, virtually homeless, 25-year-old mother to listening to the voice of God.”

Tawakkol Karman

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011

Co-nobelists: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee

Prize motivation: “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.”

Ellen Sirleaf

The Nobel Peace Prize 2011

Co-nobelists: Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman

Prize motivation: “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.”

Barack H. Obama J.D.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2008

US President, Attorney, Democrat. Award: ‘Extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy, cooperation between peoples.’
Prevented Iran acquiring nuclear weapon. Reopened relations with Cuba. Saved auto industry. Deal: slow climate change. Obamacare. Voter registration drive. African American. Orator

“Our actions matter, can bend history in direction of justice.”
“Yes we can!”

Martti Ahtisaari

The Nobel Peace Prize 2008

Peace broker. Peacefully ended conflicts worldwide. Namibia’s independence from South Africa following war. Yugoslavia – end to the war in Kosovo. Indonesia – Aceh Peace Accord following war.
Founded Crisis Management Initiative.

“Peace is question of will. All conflicts can be settled. No excuses for allowing them to become eternal.”

Mohamed ElBaradei JSD

The Nobel Peace Prize 2005

Joint awardee: International Atomic Energy Agency

Attorney, Egyptian Diplomat. ‘Prevent military use of nuclear energy, ensure nuclear energy used safely for peace.’ Worked in UN. Director General, IAEA. IAEA:
‘to accelerate, enlarge atomic energy contribution to peace, health, prosperity throughout world.’

“Durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.”

Kofi Annan

The Nobel Peace Prize 2001

“The Arab Spring reminds me of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

“The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.” – Kofi Annan

Kim Dae-jung

The Nobel Peace Prize 2000

President, S. Korea, ‘Sunshine Politician’. ‘Democracy, human rights in South Korea, East Asia; peace, reconciliation with North Korea.’ Assassination attempts. Jailed. Exiled in US.

“King is son of heaven. Heaven sent him to serve people with just rule. If he unjust, oppresses people, people have right to dispose of him.”

Jody Williams

The Nobel Peace Prize 1997

Nobel co-recipient: International Campaign to Ban Landmines ,

“for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.”

Carlos Belo

The Nobel Peace Prize 1996

Co-nobelists: José Ramos-Horta

“Nations will proclaim his wisdom; the assembly will celebrate his praises. If he lives long, his name will be more glorious than a thousand others, and if he dies, that will satisfy him just as well”
(Wisdom 39, 10-11)

“… it expresses with deep significance the memory of the man we remember this day whose esteemed Peace Prize bears his name. Today, 10th December, we celebrate the centennial anniversary of the death of
a wise benefactor of humanity, a peace worker, Alfred Nobel.” – Nobel Lecture, Nobel foundation.

Nelson Mandela

The Nobel Peace Prize 1993

Co-Nobelist F.W. de Klerk

Award: “for work regarding peaceful termination of apartheid regime and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.”

Nelson Mandela’s Nobel co-recipient was President Frederik Willem de Klerk who released him from prison. They had agreed to transitioning to majority rule peacefully.

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Nobel Peace Prize 1991

Prize motivation: “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.”

The 14^th Dalai Lama

The Nobel Peace Prize 1980

Religious and Political Leader of Tibet

Head of nonviolent opposition to China’s occupation of Tibet.

“Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.”

Alva Myrdal

The Nobel Peace Prize 1980

Diplomat, Innovator, Writer. Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons-Free Zones. Technology and growth in violence. Women’s rights. Swedish Ambassador to India. Insightful.

“Never forget trampling down of human dignity, rights, increase in acts of violence, torture use, testifies to persistence in contempt for suffering of individual men and women.”
“Down with nuclear weapons!”

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

The Nobel Peace Prize 1980

Human Rights Leader, Architect, Sculptor. Believed in nonviolence. Fought for indigenous peoples.

“It is essential to have inner peace and the serenity of prayer to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.”

Mairead Corrigan

The Nobel Peace Prize 1976

Co-nobelist: Betty Williams

Role: Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1977.

Betty Williams

The Nobel Peace Prize 1976

Co-nobelist: Mairead Corrigan

Role: Founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People)
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan received their Nobel Prize one year later, in 1977.

Sean MacBride

The Nobel Peace Prize 1974

Co-nobelist: Eisaku Sato

Role: President of the Commission of Namibia, United Nations, New York, USA, President of the International Peace Bureau, Geneva, Switzerland

Norman E. Borlaug

The Nobel Peace Prize 1970
National Medal of Sciences Biological Sciences 2004

Award: “For his success in breeding semi-dwarf, disease-resistant high-yield wheat and instructing farmers in its cultivation under harsh growing conditions, thus providing a new high-quality food source for millions of people around the world.”

International Peace Organization

The Nobel Peace Prize 1969

‘The only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 the ILO brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 member States,
to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.’

René Cassin

The Nobel Peace Prize 1968

Jurist, Judge, Humanitarian, Internationalist. Father of the Declaration of Human Rights.

‘As a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.” – René Cassin

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1964

Award: The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr.

International Committee of the Red Cross

The Nobel Peace Prize 1917, 1944, 1963

The Prize in 1963 was awarded jointly with the League of Red Cross Societies

In innumerable countries, neutral, impartial, independent. Worldwide, help people affected by conflict, armed violence; promote rules of war –
International humanitarian law. Geneva Conventions, Additional Protocols protect civilians, define parameters – what is acceptable and unacceptable on battlefield and beyond.

“All civilians should be protected and respected. It’s the law.”

Linus Pauling Ph.D.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954
The Nobel Peace Prize 1962
National Medal of Sciences – Physical Sciences 1974

Award: “for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances.”

Also awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1962. As of Sept. 2019, only four persons and two organizations have been awarded the Nobel Prize multiple times.

George Marshall

The Nobel Peace Prize 1953

Delegate U.N., ex-Secretary of State and of Defense, General President American Red Cross, Originator of “Marshall Plan”

Ralph Bunche

The Nobel Peace Prize 1950

Role: Acting Mediator in Palestine, 1948, Director, division of Trusteeship, U.N., Professor, Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Boyd Orr

The Nobel Peace Prize 1949

Role: Alimentary Politician, Physician, President, National Peace Council and World Union of Peace Organizations, Prominent organizer and Director, General Food and Agricultural Organization

Mahathma Gandhi

‘Missing Laureate’ 1948 [Nobel Peace Prize]

Hero to innumerable peace activists including Nobelists: Martin Luther King Jr., Pérez Esquivel, Dalai Lama, Suu Kyi, Nelson Mandela.

1948, Nobel Committee diplomatically declared, “no suitable living candidate”.

Geir Lundestad, Secretary, Norwegian Nobel Committee, 2006: Gandhi could do without Nobel, whether Nobel committee can do without Gandhi is the question.

Emily Balch

The Nobel Peace Prize 1946

Nobel co-recipient: John R. Mott

Role: Formerly Professor of History and Sociology, Honorary International President, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Carlos Lamas

The Nobel Peace Prize 1936

Role: Foreign Minister, Mediator in a conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia, President of the Assembly of the League of Nations

Carl von Ossietzky

The Nobel Peace Prize 1935

Role: Journalist (i.a. die Weltbühne), Pacifist

Arthur Henderson

The Nobel Peace Prize 1934

Role: ex-Foreign Secretary, President, Disarmament Conference in 1932

Norman Angell

The Nobel Peace Prize 1933

Co-Nobelists: Nicholas Murray Butler

Role: International President, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Sociologist

Jane Addams

The Nobel Peace Prize 1931

Co-Nobelists: Nicholas Murray Butler

Role: International President, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Sociologist

Ludwig Quidde

The Nobel Peace Prize 1927

Nobel co-recipient Ferdinand Buisson

Historian. Member, German Parliament. Professor, Berlin University

“…Kant found the only assurance for peace in the idea that war would become so terrible and unbearable that human beings, even though they remain as morally weak as they now are, would be forced to work together for peace…”

Ferdinand Buisson

The Nobel Peace Prize 1927

Nobel co-recipient: Ludwig Quidde

Role: Formerly Professor, Sorbonne University, Paris, Founder and President, Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (League for Human Rights)

Aristide Briand

The Nobel Peace Prize 1922

Role: Foreign Minister, Part-originator of Locarno Pact and Briand-Kellogg Pact

Fridtjof Nansen

The Nobel Peace Prize 1922

Zoologist – Neuroscientist, Polar Explorer, Oceanographer, Humanitarian. ‘Nansen Passports’ for stateless refugees. Despite Russia then being suspect in Western nations, relief for 7,000,000 to 22,000,000 Russians dying of famine.

Ministered to refugees – methods became classic: custodial care, repatriation, rehabilitation, resettlement, emigration, integration.

Love of mankind is politics in practice.

Woodrow Wilson

The Nobel Peace Prize 1919

Role: Founder of the League of Nations, President of United States of America

Woodrow Wilson received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1920.

Henri La Fontaine

The Nobel Peace Prize 1913

Lawyer, Socialist, Parliamentarian, Peace Activist. International Peace Bureau. Internationalism, “An Intellectual Parliament” for Humanity. Cofounder, Institut international de bibliographie. Education. Women’s rights. Labor. Cultural achievements.

When Germany invaded Belgium, 1914, “Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.”

Alfred Fried

The Nobel Peace Prize 1911

Nobel Co-recipient Tobias Asser

Publisher, Philosopher. Founder, Die Friedenswarte (peace publication). Permanent Court of Arbitration, Netherlands. Collaborator, Nobelist Bertha von Suttner. Propaganda for peace: war was proof of validity of pacifistic analysis of world politics.

War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy.

Tobias Asser

The Nobel Peace Prize 1911

Nobel co-recipient: Alfred Fried

Role: Cabinet Minister, Initiator of the Conferences on International Private Law at the Hague, Lawyer

Klas Pontus Arnoldson

The Nobel Peace Prize 1908

Nobel Co-recipient Fredrik Bajer

Parliamentarian, writer. Founder, Swedish Peace and Arbitration League. Inspiring orator.

Without peace there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery. Under such conditions, laws are silent. Without peace there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. Harmony is the highest ideal of life.

Louis Renault

The Nobel Peace Prize 1907

Nobel Co-recipient: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

‘Oracle of International Law’. Practical Promoter of Peace. Teacher, judge, diplomat. International: private law, transport, military aviation, naval affairs, commercial paper used in international transactions.

Jurists, journalists can pave way for reform of nefarious practices, influencing nation to give up barbaric measures which its government has been unwilling to renounce.

Ernesto Moneta

The Nobel Peace Prize 1907

Nobel Co-recipient: Louis Renault

Award: President, Lombard League of Peace

Theodore Roosevelt

The Nobel Peace Prize 1906

President, USA. International Peace Arbitrator, various treaties. Vigorous, businesslike. “We abhor bully, oppressor, in private or public life”. Conservationist, protected 230,000,000 acres of public land.

After camping in Yosemite National Park, “It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by man.”

Bertha von Suttner

The Nobel Peace Prize 1905

Generalissimo, Peace Movement. Author, ‘Lay Down Your Arms‘. Permanent International Peace Bureau. Vigorously opposed militaristic traditions. Eternal truth: happiness created, developed in peace. Eternal right: individual’s right to live.

“Inform me, convince me, and then I will do something great for the movement”, Alfred Nobel said to Bertha von Suttner.”

Randal Cremer

The Nobel Peace Prize 1903

Co-founder, Inter-Parliamentary Union. Secretary, International Arbitration League. British Parliamentarian. World organizing. Prevent war. Founder, Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners.

Upon entering into treaties of arbitration, the disputants would have time for reflection, for while arbitrators were deliberating, passions of contending parties would cool and chances of war greatly diminished.

Élie Ducommun

The Nobel Peace Prize 1902

Nobel co-recipient Albert Gobat

Permanent International Peace Bureau [1910 Nobel Peace Prize]. Nobelist Passy’s description: “exactitude, firmness.” History Demonstrates War’s Futility. Predicted, 1901: Despite modern weapons’ destructiveness, wars will ebb, flow. Alfred Nobel’s Contemporary.

Nobel Chairperson Løvland, “You Swiss, with your sense of life’s realities, have special gift for taking ideas from realm of dreams and turning them into realities.”

Frédéric Passy

The Nobel Peace Prize 1901

Nobel co-recipient: Henry Dunant

Alfred Nobel’s contemporary. Apostle of Peace, Humanitarian, Economist, Lawyer, Politician. Founder, French peace society. Free trade between independent nations promotes peace. Inspired by Nobelist Randal Cremer.

Opposed France’s colonial policy. 1905 Sweden-Norway conflict, declared, ‘…peaceful solution will make me hundred times happier than when I received Nobel Prize…’ Wish fulfilled.

Henry Dunant

The Nobel Peace Prize 1901

Nobel co-recipient: Frédéric Passy

Role: Founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Originator Geneva Convention (Convention de Genève)

Kofi Annan

The Nobel Peace Prize 1901

“The Arab Spring reminds me of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

“The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.” – Kofi Annan

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

The Nobel Peace Prize 1901

“in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him”