Winners of Nobel Peace Prize since 1980
OSLO, Norway — The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was announced today (Oct 09). Here is a list of winners of the award since 1980:
Members of Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet (seated) look on as Tunisia's President Moncef Marzouki addresses the National Conference for Dialogue in Tunis on Oct 5. Photo: Reuters
OSLO, Norway — The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was announced today (Oct 09). Here is a list of winners of the award since 1980:
2015: Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, Tunisia.
2014: Kailash Satyarthi, India, and Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan.
2013: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
2012: European Union.
2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia, Leymah Gbowee, Liberia, and Tawakkol Karman, Yemen.
2010: Liu Xiaobo, China.
2009: Barack Obama, United States.
2008: Martti Ahtisaari, Finland.
2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore, United States.
2006: Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh and Grameen Bank, Bangladesh.
2005: International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt.
2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya.
2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran.
2002: Jimmy Carter, United States.
2001: United Nations and Kofi Annan, Ghana.
2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea.
1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres.
1998: John Hume, United Kingdom, and David Trimble, United Kingdom.
1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams, United States.
1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor, and Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor.
1995: Joseph Rotblat, United Kingdom, and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1994: Yasser Arafat, Palestine territories, Shimon Peres, Israel, and Yitzhak Rabin, Israel.
1993: Nelson Mandela, South Africa, and Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa.
1992: Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Guatemala.
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma.
1990: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, USSR (now Russia).
1989: The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), China.
1988: United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica.
1986: Elie Wiesel, United States.
1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
1984: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South Africa.
1983: Lech Walesa, Poland.
1982: Alva Myrdal, Sweden, and Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexico.
1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina.
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