News: DYK: Past Winners Of The Nobel Peace Prize

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was announced Friday and we already know who won it.

Here is a list of winners of the award since 1980:

— 2014: Kailash Satyarthi, India, and Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan.
— 2013: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
— 2012: European Union.
— 2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia, Leymah Gbowee, Liberia, and Tawakkol Karman, Yemen.
— 2010: Liu Xiaobo, China.
— 2009: Barack Obama, United States.
— 2008: Martti Ahtisaari, Finland.
— 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore, United States.
— 2006: Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh and Grameen Bank, Bangladesh.
— 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt.
— 2004: Wangari Maathai, Kenya.
— 2003: Shirin Ebadi, Iran.
— 2002: Jimmy Carter, United States.
— 2001: United Nations and Kofi Annan, Ghana.
— 2000: Kim Dae-jung, South Korea.
— 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres.
— 1998: John Hume, United Kingdom, and David Trimble, United Kingdom.
— 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines and Jody Williams, United States.
— 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor, and Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor.
— 1995: Joseph Rotblat, United Kingdom, and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
— 1994: Yasser Arafat, Palestine territories, Shimon Peres, Israel, and Yitzhak Rabin, Israel.
— 1993: Nelson Mandela, South Africa, and Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa.
— 1992: Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Guatemala.
— 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma.
— 1990: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, USSR (now Russia).
— 1989: The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), China.
— 1988: United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
— 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez, Costa Rica.
— 1986: Elie Wiesel, United States.
— 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.
— 1984: Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South Africa.
— 1983: Lech Walesa, Poland.
— 1982: Alva Myrdal, Sweden, and Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexico.
— 1981: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
— 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Argentina.