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Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize by Year @ Woopidoo |
- 2009
Barack
Obama wins the 2009
Nobel Peace prize for his "efforts
to strengthen international diplomacy
and cooperation between peoples."
- 2008
Martti Ahtisaari from Finland was awarded
the famous Nobel Peace Prize for his
"important efforts, on several
continents and over more than three
decades, to resolve international conflicts."
- 2007
Al
Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) 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."
- 2006
Nobel Peace Prize Winner - Muhammad
Yunus and the Grameen Bank for their
"efforts to create economic and
social development from below."
- 2005
Mohamed ElBaradei and the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) won the
Nobel Peace Prize 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."
- 2004
Wangari Muta Maathai for her "contribution
to sustainable development, democracy
and peace."
- 2003
Shirin Ebadi was awarded the prize for
her "efforts for democracy and
human rights. She has focused especially
on the struggle for the rights of women
and children."
- 2002
Jimmy
Carter won the prestigious Nobel
Prize 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."
- 2001
Kofi Annan and the United Nations (U.N.)
were awarded for their "work for
a better organized and more peaceful
world."
- 2000
Kim Dae-jung won the peace prize 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."
- 1999
the organization Médecins Sans
Frontières was awarded the peace
prize for their "pioneering humanitarian
work on several continents."
- 1993
Nelson
Madela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
for their "work for the peaceful
termination of the apartheid regime,
and for laying the foundations for a
new democratic South
Africa."
- 1979
Mother
Teresa became a Nobel Peace Prize
laureate for her "work undertaken
in the struggle to overcome poverty
and distress, which also constitute
a threat to peace."
- 1952
Albert
Schweitzer. The chairman of the
Nobel committee said of Schweizer; "His
work has made the concept of brotherhood
a living one, and his words have reached
and taken root in the minds of countless
men."
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