The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually to those who promote peace and fraternity among nations. The first winners were Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant in 1901. Notable winners include US Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter, as well as Ralph Bunch, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Mother Teresa. Mohandas Gandhi was nominated multiple times but was assassinated before he could receive the award.
The Nobel Peace Prize is an award presented annually to the person deemed to have done the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for holding and promoting peace congresses. It was founded in the will of Alfred Nobel, who was a wealthy Norwegian inventor and industrialist. The winner receives a medal, prize money and worldwide recognition.
There have been many notable Nobel Peace Prize winners, and the first were awarded to two men in 1901. They were Frédéric Passy, founder and president of France’s first peace society, and Henry Dunant, founder of the International Committee of the Cross Red. Soon after, in 1905, the first woman would receive a Nobel Peace Prize. It was Bertha von Suttner, who received the award for being a leading figure in the peace movements of the time.
US President Teddy Roosevelt was awarded the honor the following year for peace treaty collaborations that brokered the Treaty of Portsmouth and ended the Russo-Japanese War. Eventually two other US presidents would also win the Nobel Peace Prize. They were Woodrow Wilson in 1919, who was a leading promoter of the League of Nations, and Jimmy Carter, who received the honor in 2002 “for his decades of tireless efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”.
Also among the notable Nobel Peace Prize winners is Ralph Bunch, who received the prize in 1950 for mediations in Palestine and was the first black person to win the prize. Eventually in 1964 the award would go to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most prominent and famous civil rights advocates of all time. Eventually Nelson Mandela would also join the list of Peace Prize winners along with Frederik Willem de Klerk for their work in South Africa. They were responsible for helping to end the apartheid regime and laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.
One of the most famous Nobel Peace Prize winners throughout its history and throughout the world was Mother Teresa. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950 and helped many orphans, poor, dying and sick people in India and other countries for forty-five years thereafter. Mohandas Gandhi, another of the most famous peacekeepers in history, was missing from the list of Nobel Peace Prize winners. He was nominated multiple times, but was assassinated in 1948, the year he likely would have received the esteemed award. Many other Nobel Peace Prize winners are Lech Walesa (1983), Elie Wiesel (1986) and Yasser Arafat (1994).
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