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- Alfred Nobel [r]: (October 21, 1833, Stockholm, Sweden – December 10, 1896, Sanremo, Italy) A Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. [e]
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Laureates
- Martti Ahtisaari [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kofi Annan [r]: Former Secretary-General of the United Nations; trustee, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; board, International Crisis Group [e]
- Yasser Arafat [r]: First President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) from 1996 to his death in 2004, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1969-2004) and founded Fatah in 1956 [e]
- Mohamed El-Baradei [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Norman Borlaug [r]: (1914–2009) American agricultural scientist, 1970 Nobel Prize winner and "father of the Green Revolution". [e]
- Jimmy Carter [r]: President of the USA from 1977 to 1981, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. [e]
- Kim Dae-jung [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Shirin Ebadi [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mikhail Gorbachev [r]: (1931—) Last leader of the Soviet Union, appointed in 1985. [e]
- Aung San Suu Kyi [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Al Gore [r]: A United States Senator from Tennessee and the 45th Vice President. [e]
- Tenzin Gyatso [r]: 14th Dalai Lama of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism and a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. [e]
- John Hume [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Kissinger [r]: (1923—) American academic, diplomat, and simultaneously Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration; promoted realism (foreign policy) and détente with China and the Soviet Union; shared 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War; Director, Atlantic Council [e]
- F. W. de Klerk [r]: Founder and chairman of the Global Leadership Foundation; President of South Africa (1989-1994); executive deputy president (1994-1996); opposition leader 1996-1997; Nobel Peace Prize; Member of the Assembly of the Parliament of Cultures in Istanbul; participant in Forum 2000; advisory boards of the Peres Centre for Peace in Israel and the Global Panel in Germany [e]
- Wangari Maathai [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nelson Mandela [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eleanor Roosevelt [r]: The founder of NCEC. [e]
- Lester Pearson [r]: Prime Minister of Canada from 1963-68, of the Liberal Party (Canada) and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in resolving the Suez Crisis (1956) and in establishing the U.N. Peacekeeping forces. [e]
- Shimon Peres [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Yitzhak Rabin [r]: Former Prime Minister of Israel, assassinated by a right-wing Israeli; former Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces [e]
- José Ramos-Horta [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Joseph Rotblat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Trimble [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Elie Wiesel [r]: Nobel Peace Prize; member, Committee for the Present Danger; Professor, Boston University; Founding Chairman, United States Holocaust Memorial Council [e]
- Jody Williams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Muhammad Yunus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations Peacekeeping Forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oscar Arias Sánchez [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Desmond Tutu [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lech Walesa [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alva Myrdal [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfonso García Robles [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Adolfo Pérez Esquivel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mother Teresa [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anwar al-Sadat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Menachem Begin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Amnesty International [r]: International non-governmental organisation, founded in London in 1961, which draws attention to human rights abuses and campaigns for compliance with international standards. [e]
- Betty Williams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mairead Corrigan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Andrei Sakharov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Seán MacBride [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Eisaku Sato [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Le Duc Tho [r]: A member of the Politburo of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, who was the true, not public, senior negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks, although listed as "special adviser" [e]
- Willy Brandt [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Norman Borlaug [r]: (1914–2009) American agricultural scientist, 1970 Nobel Prize winner and "father of the Green Revolution". [e]
- International Labour Organization [r]: Add brief definition or description
- René Cassin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations Children's Fund [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Martin Luther King Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Committee of the Red Cross [r]: Add brief definition or description
- League of Red Cross Societies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Linus Pauling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dag Hammarskjöld [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Albert Lutuli [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philip Noel-Baker [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Georges Pire [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George C. Marshall [r]: Army Chief of Staff (WWII), Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense (Korean War)and sponsor of the Marshall Plan. [e]
- Albert Schweitzer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Léon Jouhaux [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ralph Bunche [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lord Boyd Orr [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Friends Service Council [r]: Add brief definition or description
- American Friends Service Committee [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Emily Greene Balch [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John R. Mott [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cordell Hull [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Committee of the Red Cross [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nansen International Office for Refugees [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert Cecil [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Carl von Ossietzky [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Henderson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sir Norman Angell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jane Addams [r]: (1860-1935) A pioneer American settlement worker and founder of Hull House. [e]
- Nicholas Murray Butler [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nathan Söderblom [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Frank B. Kellogg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ferdinand Buisson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ludwig Quidde [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aristide Briand [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gustav Stresemann [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sir Austen Chamberlain [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Charles G. Dawes [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fridtjof Nansen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Léon Bourgeois [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Woodrow Wilson [r]: 28th U.S. President (1913-1921); founded the Federal Reserve and brought his country to fight both the Mexicans in the Mexican Revolution and the Central Powers in World War One. [e]
- International Committee of the Red Cross [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henri La Fontaine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Elihu Root [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tobias Asser [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred Fried [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Permanent International Peace Bureau [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Auguste Beernaert [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Klas Pontus Arnoldson [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fredrik Bajer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Louis Renault [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theodore Roosevelt [r]: (1858-1919), Twenty-sixth President of the United States, naturalist, historian, political reformer, and Progressive Era politician. [e]
- Bertha von Suttner [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Institute of International Law [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Randal Cremer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Élie Ducommun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Albert Gobat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Henry Dunant [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Frédéric Passy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Grameen Bank [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Atomic Energy Agency [r]: An international organization established in July 1957, which seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for military purposes. [e]
- International Campaign to Ban Landmines [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Médecins Sans Frontières [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United Nations [r]: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. [e]
