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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Scandinavian languages: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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Martti Ahtisaari
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Al Gore
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Muhammad Yunus
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International Atomic Energy Agency
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Mohamed ElBaradei
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Wangari Maathai
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Shirin Ebadi
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Jimmy Carter
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Kofi Annan
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United Nations
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Kim Dae Jung
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Médecins Sans Frontières
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John Hume
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He was the second leader of the Social Democratic...
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David Trimble
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Jody Williams
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International Campaign to Ban Landmines
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The coalition was formed in 1992 when six...
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José Ramos Horta
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Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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The...
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Joseph Rotblat
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His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution to the agreement of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. A...
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Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
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Yasser Arafat
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Shimon Peres
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Frederik Willem de Klerk
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Nelson Mandela
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Rigoberta Menchú
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Aung San Suu Kyi
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Mikhail Pletnev
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He was born to a very musical family; his father...
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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
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Óscar Arias
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Elie Wiesel
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International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
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Desmond Tutu
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Lech Wałęsa
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Alva Myrdal
Alva Reimer Myrdal (31 January 1902 – 1 February 1986) was a Swedish sociologist and politician. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. She married Gunnar Myrdal in 1924.
Born in Uppsala, she first came to public notice in the 1930s, and was...
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Alfonso García Robles
Alfonso García Robles (20 March 1911 – 2 September 1991) was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.
García Robles was born in Zamora, Michoacán, and trained in law at...
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
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Mother Teresa
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Menachem Begin
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Anwar Sadat
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Amnesty International
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Betty Williams
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Mairead Corrigan
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Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Са́харов) (May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989) was an eminent Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the...
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Eisaku Sato
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Seán MacBride
Seán MacBride (26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988) (Irish: Seán Mac Giolla Bhríde) was an Irish Government Minister and prominent international politician as well as a one-time Chief of Staff of the IRA.
Rising from a domestic Irish political career,...
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Henry Kissinger
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Willy Brandt
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His most important legacy is the...
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Norman Borlaug
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International Labour Organization
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René Cassin
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United Nations Children's Fund
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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International Committee of the Red Cross
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
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