Nobel Peace Prize laureates of the 2000s
The top 3 according to 64 votes from people: United Nations · Wangari Muta Maathai · International Atomic Energy Agency. (Updated May 7, 2023.)
Every Nobel Peace Prize laureate between 2000 and 2009, with the year and the Nobel Foundation's official citation. Who deserved it most?
Top 14
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1
United Nations
2001. For their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.
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Wangari Muta Maathai
2004. For her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.
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International Atomic Energy Agency
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.
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Kim Dae-jung
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.
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Jimmy Carter
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.
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Shirin Ebadi
2003. For her efforts for democracy and human rights, focusing especially on the rights of women and children.
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Martti Ahtisaari
2008. For his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.
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Kofi Annan
2001. For their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.
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Al Gore
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.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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.
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Barack Obama
2009. For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.
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Mohamed ElBaradei
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.
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13
Grameen Bank
2006. For their efforts to create social and economic development from below.
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Muhammad Yunus
2006. For their efforts to create social and economic development from below.
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Comments (2)
Muhammad Yunus and microcredit.
Wangari Maathai, first African woman to win, planting trees.