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The first woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Bertha von Suttner in 1905. Of the 111 individual Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, 19 have been women. [6] The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the most Nobel Peace Prizes, having been awarded the Prize three times for its humanitarian work. [6]
Geir Lundestad, Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2006 said, "The greatest omission in our 106-year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize. Gandhi could do without the Nobel Peace prize, whether Nobel committee can do without Gandhi is the question."
For their efforts to create peace in the Middle East. [25] (Jointly awarded to three world leaders Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres) Yasser Arafat (1929–2004) Palestine: 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (2 April 1989 – 11 November 2004) 1st President of the State of Palestine (5 July 1994 – 11 November 2004 ...
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize is an international peace prize established according to Alfred Nobel's will [1] that will be announced in October 2025 by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway, and awarded on 10 December 2025.
Peace "for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity." [2] 1996 Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, S.D.B. 3 February 1948 Vemasse, Baucau, East Timor Peace "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor." [3] (awarded together with East Timorese politician José Ramos-Horta) Hilton Deakin, D.D. [4] (b. 1932) 2007
The 1971 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt (1913–1992) "for paving the way for a meaningful dialogue between East and West." [1] [2] [3] Because of his efforts to strengthen cooperation in western Europe through the European Economic Community (EEC) and to achieve reconciliation between West Germany and the countries of Eastern Europe, he became the ...
In total, the Norwegian Nobel Committee received 95 nominations for 37 individuals and 10 organizations such as Vinoba Bhave, Grenville Clark, Norman Cousins, Danilo Dolci, Pope Paul VI, Bertrand Russell (awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature), U Thant, the International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade and the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA).
The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the prime minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed (b. 1976) "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea." [1] The award was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on 11 October 2019.