Nobel Peace Prize timeline
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Rigoberta Menchú Tum is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992 to Rigoberta Menchú Tum. It is a particular pleasure for us to... Read more
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Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, born 18 July 1918 in Transkei, South Africa, is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in a fully... Read more
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Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Yasser Arafat Are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In the early 1990s, Arafat and leading Fatah officials engaged the Israeli government in a series of secret talks and negotiations that led to the... Read more
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Sir Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work... Read more
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Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In February 1989 he wrote to the President of Portugal, the Pope, and the UN Secretary-General, calling for a UN referendum on the future of East... Read more
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Mother Teresa Dies
Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial... Read more
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Jody Williams and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA) is an American teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize... Read more
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John Hume and David Trimble are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Hume is credited with being the thinker behind many of the recent political developments in Northern Ireland, from Sunningdale power-sharing to the... Read more
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Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders in English) is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
The organization actively provides health care and medical training to populations in more than 60 countries, and frequently insists on political... Read more
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Kim Dae-jung is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
There can be little doubt that to date Kim Dae-jung has been the prime mover behind the ongoing process of détente and reconciliation. Perhaps his... Read more
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The United Nations (U.N.) and Kofi Annan are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
In April 2001, he issued a five-point "Call to Action" to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic. As Secretary-General, Annan saw this pandemic as a... Read more
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President Carter Receives the Nobel Peace Prize
In 2002, President Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work "to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy... Read more
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Jimmy Carter is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Jimmy Carter should of course have been awarded the Peace Prize a long time ago. It is no secret today that the Norwegian Nobel Committee wished to... Read more
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Shirin Ebadi is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
On October 10 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her courageous efforts for democracy and human rights, especially for the rights of... Read more
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Wangari Muta Maathai is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
On October 8, 2004, Maathai received a cell phone call from the Norwegian ambassador to Kenya, telling her to keep the line open for a call from... Read more
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Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
This year's prize to the IAEA and ElBaradei links together the two principal major lines of thought that have governed selections for the award... Read more
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Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, divided into two equal parts, to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen... Read more
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Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee's announcement on the 12th of October of this year's Peace Prize award opened with the following words: "The... Read more
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Martti Ahtisaari Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (born 23 June 1937) is a former President of Finland (1994–2000), 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations... Read more
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Barack Obama Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
On October 9, 2009, the leader of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjørn Jagland, announced that Obama had won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize "for... Read more
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President Barack Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize
President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize here today, acknowledging the irony of winning it as a wartime president and calling his own... Read more
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Liu Xiaobo is Awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
Liu Xiaobo, an irrepressible, chain-smoking Chinese dissident imprisoned last year for subversion, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for... Read more
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Imprisoned Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo Receives Nobel Peace Prize in Absentia
This fact (Xiaobo's imprisonment) alone shows that the award was necessary and appropriate. Read more
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