Nobel Peace Prize

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize “for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”

RECENT NOBEL LAUREATES

2015 Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet

2014 Kailash Satyarthi Malala Yousafzay India Pakistan

2013 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

2012 European Union

2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Liberia Leymah Gbowee Liberia Tawakkul Karman Yemen

2010 Liu Xiaobo China

2009 Barack Obama U.S.

2008 Martti Ahtisaari Finland

2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / Al Gore

Source: NobelPrize.org

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