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List of Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1980

By The Associated Press, 10.09.09, 05:36 AM EDT

Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980:

 

_ 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

_ 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 ( BLC – news – people ), Jose Ramos-Horta

_ 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

_ 1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin

_ 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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