List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates 1997-2016

International
Campaign to Ban Switzerland
Landmines

199 "for their work for the banning and clearing of

7 anti-personnel mines"[91]
United
Jody Williams
States

John Hume Ireland

199 "for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to

8 the conflict in Northern Ireland"[92]

United
David Trimble
Kingdom

"in recognition of the organization's

199 Mdecins Sans
Switzerland pioneering humanitarian work on several
9 Frontires
continents"[93]

"for his work for democracy and human rights

200 South in South Korea and in East Asia in general,
Kim Dae-jung
0 Korea and for peace and reconciliation with North
Korea in particular"[94]

United Nations United

Nations
200 "for their work for a better organized and more
1 peaceful world"[95]
Kofi Annan Ghana

"for his decades of untiring effort to find

200 United peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to
Jimmy Carter
2 States advance democracy and human rights, and to
promote economic and social development"[96]

"for her efforts for democracy and human

200 rights. She has focused especially on the
Shirin Ebadi Iran
3 struggle for the rights of
women and children."[97]

200 "for her contribution to sustainable

Wangari Muta Maathai Kenya
4 development, democracy and peace"[98]
Malala Yousafzai
Synopsis
Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. As a
child, she became an advocate for girls' education, which resulted in the
Taliban issuing a death threat against her. On October 9, 2012, a gunman
shot Malala when she was traveling home from school. She survived, and
has continued to speak out on the importance of education. She was
nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2013. In 2014, she was nominated
again and won, becoming the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace
Prize.

barack obama

Synopsis

Born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Barack Obama is the 44th

and current president of the United States. He was a community
organizer, civil-rights lawyer and teacher before pursuing a political
career. He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996 and to the U.S.
Senate in 2004. He was elected to the U.S. presidency in 2008, and won
re-election in 2012 against Republican challenger Mitt Romney.the Nobel
Committee in Norway awarded Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Syrian White Helmets

During the past five years of war in Syria, the White Helmets, a group of volunteer
rescue workers, have run towards bombs in opposition-held areas to rescue tens of
thousands by some estimates up to 60,000 people from the ruins and battlefields.

There has been no more dangerous place in the world to be a first responder for most of
that time. The ranks of the group, made up of pre-war Syrias middle classes, have lost
160 of their own, most killed by jets that have returned to target buildings they had
already bombed.

They are often the first on the scene of any airstrike, picking through rubble and
cradling the dead and injured, wearing the distinctive white helmets that gave them
their name. Their motto throughout Syrias withering conflict has been to save one life
is to save all of humanity.

The volunteers have been one of the few signs of hope in a desperate and destructive
war that otherwise shows little mercy. They have been hailed across rebel areas of Syria
and in Europe as a model of community cooperation and coexistence and of success.
Russian and Syrian attacks on medical centres have tried to deny care to the dying, but
the White Helmets have defied that, giving comfort and life-saving care where no one
else can.
Angela Merkel
Were Angela Merkel to win the Nobel peace prize it
would hang like an albatross around her neck. When
the German chancellor was a hot contender in 2015
in the light of her open-door refugee policy, 73% of
Germans saying she had not earned the prize,
according to one poll.