The Nobel Peace Prize Flashcards
(25 cards)
2012 The Nobel Peace Prize
European Union (EU) “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe”.
2011 The Nobel Peace Prize
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work” (EJS: Liberian President, 1st elected female head of state in Africa in 2011, LG: Leymah Gbowee, TK: “Iron Woman” and “Mother of the Revolution” in 2011 Yemeni uprising during Arab Spring)
2010 The Nobel Peace Prize
Liu Xiaobo “for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China” (Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; Charter 08 Manifesto)
2009 The Nobel Peace Prize
Barack H. Obama “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”
2008 The Nobel Peace Prize
Martti Ahtisaari “for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts” (President of Finland, UN diplomat and mediator: independence of Kosovo)
2007 The Nobel Peace Prize
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. “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 The Nobel Peace Prize
Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”
2005 The Nobel Peace Prize
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei “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” (MEN: director general of IAEA 1997-2009, work for non-proliferation, nuclear inspections in Iraq)
2004 The Nobel Peace Prize
Wangari Muta Maathai “for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace” (Kenyan political and environmental activist, founder of Green Belt Movement: tree planting, environment, women’s rights)
2003 The Nobel Peace Prize
Shirin Ebadi “for her efforts for democracy and human rights. She has focused especially on the struggle for the rights of women and children” (Founder of the Iranian human rights group “Defenders of Human Rights Center”; pioneering work for women’s, children’s and refugees’ rights)
2002 The Nobel Peace Prize
Jimmy Carter “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 The Nobel Peace Prize
United Nations (U.N.), Kofi Annan “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”
2000 The Nobel Peace Prize
Kim Dae-jung “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” (President of South Korea 1998-2003, successful implementation of “Sunshine Policy” towards North Korea, the “Nelson Mandela of Asia”)
1999 The Nobel Peace Prize
Médecins Sans Frontières “in recognition of the organization’s pioneering humanitarian work on several continents”
1998 The Nobel Peace Prize
John Hume, David Trimble “for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland”
1997 The Nobel Peace Prize
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), Jody Williams “for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines”
1996 The Nobel Peace Prize
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta “for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor”
1995 The Nobel Peace Prize
Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences of Sciences and World Affairs “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms”
1994 The Nobel Peace Prize
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzak Rabin “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”
1993 The Nobel Peace Prize
Nelson Mandela, 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”
1992 The Nobel Peace Prize
Rigoberta Menchú Tum “in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples”
1991 The Nobel Peace Prize
Aung San Suu Kyi “for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights”
1990 The Nobel Peace Prize
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev “for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community”
1989 The Nobel Peace Prize
The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
