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Sunday, 14 December 2014

Facts on the Nobel Peace Prize

Facts on the Nobel Peace Prize




On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel's will, one part was dedicated to "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses". Learn more about the Nobel Peace Prize from 1901 to 2014.

Number of Nobel Peace Prizes: 95 Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded since 1901. It was not awarded on 19 occasions: in 1914-1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939-1943, 1948, 1955-1956, 1966-1967 and 1972.

Number of Shared and Unshared Nobel Peace Prizes:
64 Peace Prizes have been given to one Laureate only.
29 Peace Prizes have been shared by two Laureates.
2 Peace Prizes has been shared between three persons. The 1994 Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman.
Number of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates: The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 128 Laureates - to 103 individuals and 25 organizations. Since Comité International de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) was awarded three times and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was awarded twice there are 103 individuals and 22 organizations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Average Age: The average age of all Nobel Peace Laureates between 1901 and 2014 is 61 years.

Youngest Peace Laureate: To date, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate is Malala Yousafzai, 17 years old when awarded the 2014 Peace Prize.
Oldest Peace Laureate: The oldest Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to date is Joseph Rotblat, who was 87 years old when he was awarded the Prize in 1995.

Female Nobel Peace Prize Laureates: Of the 103 individuals awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, 16 are women. The first time a Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a woman was in 1905, to Bertha von Suttner.
1905 - Bertha von Suttner
1931 - Jane Addams
1946 - Emily Greene Balch
1976 - Betty Williams
1976 - Mairead Corrigan
1979 - Mother Teresa
1982 - Alva Myrdal
1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi
1992 - Rigoberta MenchĂș Tum
1997 - Jody Williams
2003 - Shirin Ebadi
2004 - Wangari Maathai
2011 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
2011 - Leymah Gbowee
2011 - Tawakkol Karman
2014 - Malala Yousafzai
Multiple Nobel Peace Prize Laureates:
The work of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been honored the most - three times - by a Nobel Peace Prize. In addition, the founder of the ICRC, Henry Dunant, was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

Three Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Have Been under Arrest at the Time of the Award:
German pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky
Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi
Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo

Nobel Peace Prizes and Nominations in 100 Years: The 109 awarded individuals and organizations over the first one hundred years of the Nobel Peace Prize (1901-2001), and the 4857 nominees, can be distributed geographically and by organization as shown below:
How Many Times Can someone be nominated?
Jane Addams was nominated 91 times between 1916 and 1931, when she was finally awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. By contrast Emily Green Balch, Fridtjof Nansen and Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize the first year that they were nominated.



Nobel Prize Awarded Organizations: The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 25 times to organizations between 1901 and 2014. 22 individual organizations have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1.     ComitĂ© international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) 1917
2.     Office international Nansen pour les RĂ©fugiĂ©s (Nansen International Office for Refugees) 1938
3.     ComitĂ© international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) 1944
4.     American Friends Service Committee (The Quakers) 1947
5.     Friends Service Council (The Quakers) 1947
6.     Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1954
7.     Ligue des SociĂ©tĂ©s de la Croix-Rouge (League of Red Cross Societies) 1963
8.     ComitĂ© international de la Croix Rouge (International Committee of the Red Cross) 1963
9.     United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) 1965
10.            International Labour Organization (I.L.O.) 1969
11.            Amnesty International 1977
12.            Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1981
13.            International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War 1985
14.            United Nations Peacekeeping Forces 1988
15.            Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs 1995
16.            International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) 1997
17.            MĂ©decins Sans FrontiĂšres 1999
18.            United Nations (U.N.) 2001
19.            International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 2005
20.            Grameen Bank 2006
21.            Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007
22.            European Union (EU) 2012
23.            Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 2013
All Nobel Peace Prizes: The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 95 times to 128 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2014, 103 individuals and 25 organizations. Since the International Committee of the Red Cross has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize three times (in 1917, 1944 and 1963), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize two times (in 1954 and 1981), there are 22 individual organizations which have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Click on the links to get more information.






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