About
the Nobel Peace Prize Page :
Includes an archive of the Nobel Peace Prize
winners by year. Includes biographies and
quotes by and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize by Year @ Woopidoo
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."
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."
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."
Bookmark