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Nobel Peace Prize 

YearLaureateCountryKey Contribution
1901Henry DunantSwitzerland• Founder of International Committee of the Red Cross
 • Humanitarian work for wounded soldiers
1901Frédéric PassyFrance• Promoted international peace conferences & arbitration
1905Bertha von SuttnerAustria-Hungary• Opposed horrors of war
1906Theodore RooseveltUSA• Mediated Russo-Japanese War peace
1917International Committee of the Red CrossInternational• Helped wounded soldiers & POWs during WWI
1919Woodrow WilsonUSA• Founder of League of Nations
1922Fridtjof NansenNorway• Refugee relief work under League of Nations
1929Frank B. KelloggUSA• Architect of Kellogg-Briand Pact (anti-war treaty)
1935Carl von OssietzkyGermany• Exposed Nazi militarization
1944International Committee of the Red CrossInternational• Humanitarian work during World War II
1945Cordell HullUSA• Role in founding United Nations
1950Ralph BuncheUSA• Mediated Arab-Israel conflict
1960Albert LuthuliSouth Africa• Non-violent struggle against apartheid
1964Martin Luther King Jr.USA• Civil rights movement using non-violence
1969International Labour OrganizationUN• Global labour standards
1970Norman BorlaugUSA• Father of Green Revolution
1979Mother TeresaIndia• Humanitarian work for poor and sick
1984Desmond TutuSouth Africa• Anti-apartheid movement
1989Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)Tibet/India• Non-violent struggle for Tibetan rights
1990Mikhail GorbachevUSSR• End of Cold War tensions
1993Nelson MandelaSouth Africa• End of apartheid
1994Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon PeresPalestine & IsraelMiddle East peace efforts
2001United Nations & Kofi AnnanInternational• Strengthening global peace & cooperation
2007Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change & Al GoreUN / USA• Awareness on climate change
2014Kailash Satyarthi & Malala YousafzaiIndia & Pakistan• Fight for child rights & education
2019Abiy AhmedEthiopia• Peace agreement with Eritrea
2020World Food ProgrammeUN• Fighting global hunger
2021Maria Ressa & Dmitry MuratovPhilippines & Russia• Protection of press freedom
2022Ales Bialiatski, Memorial, Centre for Civil LibertiesBelarus/Russia/Ukraine• Human rights activism
2023Narges MohammadiIran• Fight for women’s rights & freedom
2024Nihon HidankyoJapan• Campaign against nuclear weapons
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