Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980:
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– 2011: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.
– 2010: Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
– 2009: U.S. President Barack Obama
– 2008: Martti Ahtisaari
– 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore
– 2006: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank
– 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
– 2004: Wangari Maathai
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– 2003: Shirin Ebadi
– 2002: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
– 2001: United Nations, Kofi Annan
– 2000: Kim Dae-jung
– 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres
– 1998: John Hume, David Trimble
– 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
– 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Jose Ramos-Horta
– 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
– 1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
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– 1993: Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk
– 1992: Rigoberta Menchu Tum
– 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi
– 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev
– 1989: The 14th Dalai Lama
– 1988: U.N. Peacekeeping Forces
– 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez
– 1986: Elie Wiesel
– 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
– 1984: Desmond Tutu
– 1983: Lech Walesa
– 1982: Alva Myrdal, Alfonso Garcia Robles
– 1981: Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
– 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel
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