The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, made up of survivors of the atomic bombs dropped 79 years ago by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced.
List of all Nobel Peace Prize winners:
2024 – Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo Organization
2023 – Activist Narges Mohammadi, from Iran
2022 – Activist Ales Bialiatski from Belarus and organizations Memorial from Russia and Center for Civil Liberties from Ukraine
2021 – Journalists Maria Ressa from the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov from Russia
2020 – World Food Program (WFP)
2019 — Abiy Ahmed Ali (Ethiopia)
2018 — Denis Mukwege (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Nadia Murad (Iraq)
2017 – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
2016 – Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia)
2015 — Quartet for National Dialogue in Tunisia
2014 — Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan) and Kailash Satyarthi (India)
2013 — Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OIAC)
2012 — European Union (EU)
2011 — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee (Liberia) and Tawakkol Karman (Yemen)
2010 — Liu Xiaobo (China)
2009 — Barack Obama (United States)
2008 — Martti Ahtisaari (Finland)
2007 — Al Gore (United States) and the United Nations panel on climate (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, GIEC)
2006 — Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh)
2005 — International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its director Mohamed ElBaradei (Egypt)
2004 — Wangari Muta Maathai (Nigeria)
2003 — Shirin Ebadi (Iran)
2002 — Jimmy Carter (United States)
2001 — United Nations (UN) and its Secretary General Kofi Annan (Ghana)
2000 — Kim Dae-Jung (South Korea)
1999 — Médecins Sans Frontières (non-governmental organization founded in France)
1998 — John Humes and David Trimble (United Kingdom)
1997 — International Campaign to Ban Anti-Personnel Mines and its coordinator Jody Williams (United States)
1996 — Carlos Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta (East Timor)
1995 — Pugwash anti-nuclear movement (founded in Canada) and Joseph Rotblat (United Kingdom)
1994 — Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres (Israel) and Yasser Arafat (PLO)
1993 — Nelson Mandela and Frederik de Klerk (South Africa)
1992 — Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala)
1991 — Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar, formerly Burma)
1990 — Mikhail Gorbatchev (USSR)
1989 — Dalai Lama (Tibet)
1988 — United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1987 — Oscar Arias Sanchez (Costa Rica)
1986 — Elie Wiesel (United States)
1985 — International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (founded in the United States)
1984 — Desmond Tutu (South Africa)
1983 — Lech Walesa (Poland)
1982 — Alva Myrdal (Sweden) and Alfonso Garcia Robles (Mexico)
1981 — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1980 — Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Argentina)
1979 — Mother Teresa (Albania/India)1978 — Anwar al-Sadat (Egypt) and Menahem Begin (Israel)
1977 — Amnesty International (founded in the United Kingdom)
1976 — Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan (United Kingdom)
1975 — Andrei Sakharov (USSR)
1974 — Sean MacBride (Ireland) and Eisaku Sato (Japan)
1973 — Henry Kissinger (United States) and Le Duc Tho (Vietnam, who declined)
1972 — Not attributed
1971 — Willy Brandt (West Germany)
1970 — Norman Borlaug (United States)
1969 — International Labour Organization (ILO)
1968 — René Cassin (France)
1967 — Not attributed
1966 — Not attributed
1965 — United Nations Development Fund Children (UNICEF)
1964 — Martin Luther King Jr. (United States)
1963 — International Committee of the Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies
1962 — Linus Carl Pauling (United States)
1961 — Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden)
1960 — Albert Lutuli (South Africa)
1959 — Philip Noel-Baker (United Kingdom)
1958 — Georges Pire (Belgium)
1957 — Lester Pearson (Canada)
1956 — Not assigned
1955 — Not assigned
1954 — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1953 — George Marshall (United States)
1952 — Albert Schweitzer (France)
1951 — Léon Jouhaux (France)
1950 — Ralph Bunche (United States)
1949 — John Boyd Orr of Brechin (United Kingdom)
1948 — Not attributed
1947 — Friends Service Council (The Quakers, founded in the United Kingdom), American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers, founded in the United States)
1946 — Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott (United States)
1945 — Cordell Hull (United States)
1944 — International Committee of the Red Cross
1943 — Not attributed
1942 — Not attributed
1941 — Not attributed
1940 — Not attributed
1939 — Not attributed
1938 — Nansen International Refugee Committee
1937 — Cecil of Chelwood (United Kingdom)
1936 — Carlos Saavedra Lamas (Argentina)
1935 — Carl Von Ossietzky (Germany)
1934 — Arthur Henderson (United Kingdom)
1933 — Norman Angell (United Kingdom)
1932 — Unattributed
1931 — Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler (United States)
1930 — Nathan Söderblom (Sweden)
1929 — Frank Billings Kellogg (United States)
1928 — Unattributed
1927 — Ferdinand Buisson (France) and Ludwig Quidde (Germany)
1926 — Aristide Briand (France) and Gustav Stresemann (Germany)
1925 — Sir Austen Chamberlain (United Kingdom) and Charles Gates Dawes (United States)
1924 — Unattributed
1923 — Unattributed
1922 — Fridtjor Nansen (Norway)
1921 – Karl Hjalmar Branting (Sweden) and Christian Louis Lange (Norway)
1920 – Léon Bourgeois (France)
1919 – Thomas Woodrow Wilson (United States)
1918 — Not attributed
1917 — International Committee of the Red Cross
1916 — Not attributed
1915 — Not attributed
1914 — Not attributed
1913 – Henri La Fontaine (Belgium)
1912 – Elihu Root (United States)
1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser (Netherlands) and Alfred Hermann Fried (Austria)
1910 — Permanent International Peace Bureau
1909 – Auguste Beernaert (Belgium) and Paul Henri Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant (France)
1908 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson (Sweden) and Fredrik Bajer (Denmark)
1907 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (Italy) and Louis Renault (France)
1906 – Theodore Roosevelt (United States)
1905 – Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner (Austria)
1904 — Institute of International Law
1903 – William Randal Cremer (United Kingdom)
1902 – Élie Ducommun and Charles-Albert Gobat (Switzerland)
1901 – Jean Henri Dunant (Switzerland) and Frédéric Passy (France)







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