# Nobel Peace Prize laureates of the 1990s

Every Nobel Peace Prize laureate between 1990 and 1999, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Who deserved it most?

- 58 votes · 17 items
- Jun 14, 2020 · rutero_pamplona
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## Top 17

1. **Mikhail Gorbachev** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — 1990. For the leading role he played in the radical changes in East-West relations.
2. **Aung San Suu Kyi** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — 1991. For her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.
3. **Rigoberta Menchú** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — 1992. For her struggle for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples.
4. **Yasser Arafat** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1994. For their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
5. **International Campaign to Ban Landmines** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 1997. For their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
6. **Nelson Mandela** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — 1993. For their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.
7. **Shimon Peres** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1994. For their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
8. **Joseph Rotblat** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1995. For their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.
9. **David Trimble** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1998. For their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
10. **Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 1996. For their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
11. **Yitzhak Rabin** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1994. For their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
12. **Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1995. For their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.
13. **Jody Williams** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1997. For their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
14. **José Ramos-Horta** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — 1996. For their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor.
15. **Médecins Sans Frontières** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — 1999. In recognition of the organization's pioneering humanitarian work on several continents.
16. **Frederik Willem de Klerk** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — 1993. For their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.
17. **John Hume** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 1998. For their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.

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