Nobel Prizes Peace

2000

Kim Dae-jung

"for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular"

2001

"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"

Kofi Annan

"for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world"

2002

Jimmy Carter

"for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development"

2003

Shirin Ebadi

"for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children"

2004

Wangari Maathai

"for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"

2005

"for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way"

Mohamed ElBaradei

"for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way"

2006

Muhammad Yunus

"for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"

"for their efforts to create economic and social development from below"

2007

"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"

Al Gore

"for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change"

2008

Martti Ahtisaari

"for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"

2009

Barack H. Obama

"for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"

2010

Liu Xiaobo

"for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"

2011

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"

Leymah Gbowee

"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"

Tawakkol Karman

"for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work"

2012

"for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe"

2013

"for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons"

2014

Kailash Satyarthi

"for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"

Malala Yousafzai

"for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"

2015

"for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011"

2016

Juan Manuel Santos

"for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end"

2017

"for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons"

2018

Denis Mukwege

"for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict"

Nadia Murad

"for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict"

2019

Abiy Ahmed Ali

"for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea"

2020

"for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict"

2021

Maria Ressa

"for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace"

Dmitry Muratov

"for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace"

2022

Ales Bialiatski

"The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy."

"The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy."

"The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy."

2023

Narges Mohammadi

"for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all"

2024

"for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again"

2025