Nobel Peace Prize winners
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Nobel Peace Prize winners
The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to end Colombia's long-running civil war.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet for its "decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in the country in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011." From left to right: the Secretary General of the Tunisian General Labour Union Houcine Abbassi, the President of the National Order of Tunisian Lawyers Fadhel Mahfoudh, the Tunisian Human Rights League Abdessatar Ben Moussa and the President of the Tunisian employers union Wided Bouchamaoui.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Malala Yousafzai split the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with India's Kailash Satyarthi for their struggles against the suppression of children and for young people's rights. Yousafzai came to global attention after she was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 for her efforts to promote education for girls in Pakistan.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Nobel Peace Prize winners
The European Union won the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, from left, Tawakkol Karman of Yemen and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
U.S. President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Muhammed Yunus and Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Wangari Muta Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, Kenya, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Former United Nations Secretary General Koffi Annan, center, with French Forces commander Gen. Alain Pellegrini, right, review UNIFIL soldiers upon Annan's arrival to the U.N. peacekeeping base in the southern Lebanese town of Naqura, on August 29, 2006. Annan and the United Nations won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000.
Nobel Peace Prize winners
A flag bearing the logo of Medecins sans Frontieres (also known as Doctors Without Borders) stands in the middle of a makeshift clinic at Kenya's Dadaab refuge on October 16, 2011. Medicins sans...
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