# Nobel Peace Prize laureates of the 2000s

Every Nobel Peace Prize laureate between 2000 and 2009, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Who deserved it most?

- 64 votes · 14 items
- May 7, 2023 · Kirsty Fletcher
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## Top 14

1. **United Nations** (12 · ▲12 ▼0) — 2001. For their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.
2. **Wangari Muta Maathai** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — 2004. For her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
3. **International Atomic Energy Agency** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — 2005. For their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.
4. **Kim Dae-jung** (4 · ▲7 ▼3) — 2000. For his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular.
5. **Jimmy Carter** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 2002. For his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.
6. **Shirin Ebadi** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — 2003. For her efforts for democracy and human rights, focusing especially on the rights of women and children.
7. **Martti Ahtisaari** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2008. For his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.
8. **Kofi Annan** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 2001. For their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.
9. **Al Gore** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2007. For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
10. **Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 2007. For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
11. **Barack Obama** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — 2009. For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
12. **Mohamed ElBaradei** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2005. For their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way.
13. **Grameen Bank** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2006. For their efforts to create social and economic development from below.
14. **Muhammad Yunus** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — 2006. For their efforts to create social and economic development from below.

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