- Why did the first Peace Prize split between a man who mitigated war's damage and one who worked to prevent war entirely?
Nobel Peace Prize History
Laureates, controversies, and politics of the Peace Prize.
- Why did the Nobel committee choose to honor administrative peace work rather than a dramatic act of peacemaking?
- What role might von Suttner have played in Nobel's decision to establish a Peace Prize?
- What did Roosevelt do with his Nobel Peace Prize money?
- Why was Roosevelt's prize historically significant for the United States?
- Why does the entry describe the limits of international arbitration as being tested only a few years later?
- Why did the Nobel committee choose to honor an institution rather than an individual peace advocate in 1910?
- Why did the Nobel committee award a Peace Prize for humanitarian work rather than for achieving an actual peace?
- Why did the 1921 committee choose to split the Peace Prize between a politician and a scholar?
- Why did the Nobel Committee award the Peace Prize to Henderson in the same year his conference failed?
- How did Saavedra Lamas become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
- How did the circumstances of the 1936 Peace Prize contrast with Carl von Ossietzky's award the year before?
- What was the logic behind pairing Balch and Mott as co-laureates in the same year?
- What did Schweitzer do with the money from his Nobel Peace Prize?
- What is the irony the entry identifies in an international-goodwill organisation winning a prize for managing goodwill's failures?
- When did the UNHCR win a second Nobel Peace Prize, and what did that repeat award signal about the refugee problem?
- Why was Hammarskjöld's award only the second posthumous Nobel Peace Prize in the prize's history?
- Why did the Nobel Committee choose 1963 specifically to award the ICRC its third Peace Prize?
- How old was Martin Luther King Jr. when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, and what record did that set?
- What reasoning did the Nobel committee give for awarding the Peace Prize to an organization rather than an individual?
- Why did the Nobel Committee choose the ILO's fiftieth anniversary to award the Peace Prize?
- Why did two members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee resign over this prize?
- On what grounds did Le Duc Tho decline to accept his share of the Peace Prize?
- In what sense is Le Duc Tho unique among Nobel Peace Prize laureates?
- Why did the pairing of MacBride and Satō strike observers as an unusual kind of balance?
- Why did the Nobel Committee award the 1976 Peace Prize to Williams and Corrigan a year later than the events that inspired it?
- How did awarding Pérez Esquivel the Nobel Peace Prize affect international attention on Argentina's dirty war?
- Which other organization, besides the UNHCR, has won the Nobel Peace Prize more than once?
- Why did the Nobel committee choose to award the Peace Prize jointly to Myrdal and García Robles that year?
- Why couldn't Wałęsa travel to Oslo to accept his own Nobel Peace Prize?
- Why did the Nobel Committee frame Tutu's award around a sustained campaign rather than a single act?
- Why did the Norwegian Nobel Committee's 1989 award coincide symbolically with the fall of the Berlin Wall?
- Who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf while she was confined, and how?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee's citation for Daryl Gates function as an ironic joke?
- Why did the Ig Nobel committee award a Peace prize to legislators who brawled in parliament?
- Why did the Nobel committee award the Peace Prize before the power-sharing institutions had fully taken hold?
- What year did this cost-cutting training practice come to light?
- Why was the Nobel Committee's 2002 citation for Carter interpreted as an implicit rebuke of contemporary US foreign policy?
- How did the Iranian government respond to Ebadi winning the Nobel Peace Prize?
- Why was Maathai's Nobel Peace Prize significant for the history of the award?
- What reasoning did the Ig Nobel committee give for crediting karaoke with promoting world peace?
- Why did the Nobel committee frame microfinance as a peace initiative rather than an economic one?
- What reasons did the Norwegian Nobel Committee give for awarding Obama the prize so early in his presidency?
- Why did the committee's citation leave open whether the 2009 prize recognized past achievement or encouraged future action?
- Why was the European Union awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012?
- What did the European Union do with its prize money?
- Why did the Nobel Committee award the Peace Prize to the OPCW in the middle of the Syrian civil war?
- Why did the Norwegian Nobel Committee describe the joint award to Satyarthi and Yousafzai as not coincidental?
- Why did the Nobel Committee award Santos the Peace Prize just days after the referendum failed?
- Why did the Nobel committee pair a physician with a survivor-advocate for the Peace Prize?
- Why did the Nobel committee award the Peace Prize to Abiy Ahmed so quickly after the peace deal?
- Why might rising nuclear threats in Europe have influenced the Nobel Committee's choice in 2024?
- What reasons did the Norwegian Nobel Committee give for awarding Machado the 2025 Peace Prize?