Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?
"the prize"" while in ""CounterPunch"", political journalist Alexander Cockburn said that, in historical context of other former U.S. Presidents winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the award to Obama ""represents a radical break in tradition, since he's only had slightly less than nine months to discharge his imperial duties."" Peter Beinart of the Daily Beast called the decision a ""farce"", while Noam Chomsky said : ""In defense of the committee, we might say that the achievement of doing nothing to advance peace places Obama on a considerably higher moral plane than some of the earlier recipients"". Many were critical of the"
"2010 Nobel Peace Prize The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist ""for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"". The laureate, once an eminent scholar, was reportedly little-known inside the People's Republic of China (PRC) at the time of the award due to official censorship; he partook in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and was a co-author of the Charter 08 manifesto, for which he was sentenced to 11 years in prison on 25 December 2009. Liu, who was backed by former Czech president Václav Havel and anti-apartheid activist"
"in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2009, with ""deep gratitude and great humility."" The award drew a mixture of praise and criticism from world leaders and media figures. Obama's peace prize was called a ""stunning surprise"" by ""The New York Times"". Obama is the fourth U.S. president to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the third to become a Nobel laureate while in office. Obama's Nobel Prize has been viewed skeptically in subsequent years, especially after the director of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, said Obama's Peace Prize did not have the desired effect. Barack Obama's presidency ended at"
"in 1994 for their efforts in making peace between Israel and Palestine. Immediately after the award was announced, one of the five Norwegian Nobel Committee members denounced Arafat as a terrorist and resigned. Additional misgivings about Arafat were widely expressed in various newspapers. Another controversial Peace Prize was that awarded to Barack Obama in 2009. Nominations had closed only eleven days after Obama took office as President of the United States, but the actual evaluation occurred over the next eight months. Obama himself stated that he did not feel deserving of the award, or worthy of the company it would"
"Nobel Peace Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi from Iran, Muhammad Yunus Khan from Bangladesh and Wangari Maathai were also appointed as ""Person Of the Month"" by University-Community Partnership for Social Action Research Network. On the eve of the September 2009 International Day of Peace, Hafizullah Khaled published a collection of his poems entitled “The Message of Peace”;the poems and articles in this book devoted to promote Peace and stability in war-torn Afghanistan. The proceeds from the sale of the book has spent to promote education of Afghan children and assist Afghan orphans and needy school children. Khaled has written his monograph"
"alone. This was mentioned by Thorbjørn Jagland in his handover ceremony speech. The Nobel Prize Committee announced that it had received a record number of 278 different nominations for the Peace Prize, up from 259 in 2013. 47 of these nominations were for organizations. Prior to the announcement, many news media speculated about who would win this year, providing lists of favourites. Often cited were Pope Francis, Ban Ki-moon, Chelsea Manning, Denis Mukwege, Edward Snowden, José Mujica, the ""Novaya Gazeta"" newspaper, and the so-called Japanese people who conserve Article 9, together with the eventual winner Malala Yousafzai. The other winner,"
"Mandela and Russian Anatoly Marchenko. The 1990 award was given to Aung San Suu Kyi, but she could not receive it until 2013 as a result of her political imprisonment in Burma. The prize has also been awarded to organisations, the first being the Argentine Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in 1992. Five Sakharov laureates were subsequently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Malala Yousafzai, Denis Mukwege, and Nadia Murad. Razan Zaitouneh (2011) was kidnapped in 2013 and is still missing. Nasrin Sotoudeh (2012) was released from prison in September 2013, but is still"
"while residing in China. Liu was the third person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention after Germany's Carl von Ossietzky (1935) and Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). As the laureate was absent, Liu's place on the podium was unoccupied; Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann read ""I Have No Enemies"", an essay that Liu had written for his trial in December 2009, in place of the acceptance speech. The Nobel Committee disclosed there were a record number of nominations in 2010 – a total of 237, of which 38 were organisations. Although the committee has"
"Concert to commemorate the 2010 prize was held on 11 December, the night following the award ceremony, as is the tradition. It was hosted by Denzel Washington and Anne Hathaway. The roster of confirmed performers announced before the award included Herbie Hancock, Florence and the Machine, Colbie Caillat, Elvis Costello. Those who were confirmed later included Barry Manilow, Jamiroquai, A. R. Rahman, India.Arie, Robyn and Sivert Høyem. 2010 Nobel Peace Prize The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist ""for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"". The laureate, once an"
"San Suu Kyi from Burma for her peaceful and non-violent struggle under a military dictatorship in Burma. She is a nonviolent pro-democracy activist and leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma (Myanmar) and a noted prisoner of conscience. She is a Buddhist and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ""his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"" on 8 October 2010. He is the first Chinese citizen to be awarded a Nobel Prize of any kind while residing in China. In 2014,"
"suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Having received the prize at the age of 17, Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel laureate. Yousafzai shared the prize with Kailash Satyarthi, a children's rights activist from India. She is the second Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize after 1979 Physics laureate Abdus Salam. After she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, there was praise, but also some disapproval of the decision. A Norwegian jurist, Fredrik Heffermehl, commented on being awarded the Nobel Prize: ""This is not for fine people who have done nice things"
"Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential bid. In October 2009, President Barack Obama received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, an event widely reported as ""surprising"" to even the President and his advisers. Conservatives and others in the media ridiculed the selection process and the President. Criticisms ranged from claims that Obama was undeserving, to the fact that he had been nominated only twelve days after his inauguration, to claims that the Nobel Peace Prize is anti-American. In an October 9, 2009 public statement, RNC Chairman Michael Steele issued a public statement which rhetorically asked what Obama achievement the Nobel Prize recognized. Woodhouse,"
"dispute between Norway and China. Relations were normalized in December 2016. Pro-Chinese government and state-controlled media had criticized Liu's selection due to his low profile and obscurity within China and among Chinese youth. Critics such as Tariq Ali, Barry Sautman, and Yan Hairong also criticized Liu's selection for his long support of American involvement in wars in other nations, particularly Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, and Iraq. A Chinese group responded by creating a rival award—the Confucius Peace Prize. The 2009 prize went to Barack Obama ""for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples"". The award, given just"
"a champion of peace"". The 2010 prize went to Liu Xiaobo ""for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China"". Liu was imprisoned at the time of the award and neither he nor his family were allowed to attend the ceremony. The Chinese government alleged that Liu did not promote ""international friendship, disarmament, and peace meetings"", the prize's stated goal. They further alleged that Liu Xiaobo had participated in organizations that received funding from the National Endowment for Democracy, which they claimed brought his status and the prize itself into question. The award led to a diplomatic"
"Kailash Satyarthi, was not among the commonly cited favourites. 2014 Nobel Peace Prize The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"". Satyarthi is from India, the seventh person from his country to win a Nobel Prize and the second to win the Peace Prize after Mother Teresa, while Yousafzai is a Muslim from Pakistan, the second Nobel Prize winner from her country after Abdus Salam, the forty-seventh woman to win the"
"Peace Prize by Norway Nobel Committee. Seven years later in July 2017, he died of terminal liver cancer in the prison after having been granted medical parole. Many of the original signatories were prominent Chinese citizens inside and outside the government, including lawyers; a Tibetan poet and essayist, Woeser; and Bao Tong, a former senior Communist Party official, who all faced a risk of arrest and jail. The Charter calls for 19 changes including an independent legal system, freedom of association and the elimination of one-party rule. ""All kinds of social conflicts have constantly accumulated and feelings of discontent have"
"for 1985, the late Irish senator and peace campaigner Gordon Wilson for 1987, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev for 1988, the late South African president Nelson Mandela for 1989, former US president Bill Clinton for 2000, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani for 2001, John O’Shea, founder of the charity Goal for 2003, the late Pakistani president Benazir Bhutto for 2007, the late US Senator Edward Kennedy for 2009, Afghan human rights campaigner Dr Sima Samar for 2010, former Irish president, Mary McAleese and her husband, senator Martin McAleese for 2011, Pakistani activist for female education and youngest-ever Nobel Prize"
"2008 Nobel Peace Prize The 2008 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President of Finland (1994–2000) Martti Ahtisaari ""for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"". The 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate was announced on the press conference in Oslo, Norway on October 10, 2008. The committee's decision was heavily criticized in Serbia, because of Ahtisaari's role in the Kosovo status process (the Government of Serbia rejects Ahtisaari's plan because it would allegedly guarantee the ""de facto"" independence of Kosovo). On the other hand, committee's decision was praised by Albanians living"
"military junta, which decided not to allow her to attend the awarded ceremony. In 2017 her Nobel prize became a matter of controversy after United Nations' report which said Myanmar’s military carried out an act of genocide against Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic minority in Myanmar. Suu Kyi has repeatedly refused to speak out against violence committed by the military against the Rohingya and her silence over the mass killings has been likened by researchers to “legitimising genocide”. The 1990 prize went to Mikhail Gorbachev ""for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international"
"Nobel Peace Award Laureate Mikhail Gorbachev. Beneficiaries and partners of the Cinema for Peace activities include the Cinema for Peace Foundation, the United Nations agencies UNICEF and UNIFEM, Sean Penn's J/P Haitian Relief Organization, Richard Gere's ""Healing the Divide"" and the International Campaign for Tibet, which was initiated in a meeting with the Dalai Lama in 2004, ""Schools for Africa"" by UNICEF and the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the Leonardo DiCaprio Fund, the Elton John Aids Foundation, amfAR, the Gorbachev Foundation, Amnesty International, Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project, Eastern Congo Initiative, and the Human Rights Film Network The annual Cinema for"
"year's Nobel Peace Prize, will receive"". However, ""The Guardian"" reported in 2015 that the cash prize was worth CNY500,000 (£51,000). The shortlist for the 2012 award consisted of previous nominees Kofi Annan, Bill Gates, agricultural scientist Yuan Longping, and Gyancain Norbu, as well as Ban Ki-moon, Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Chinese philosopher Tang Yijie, and Wang Dingguo, the last surviving female participant in Mao Zedong's Long March. Due to a tie in the voting, the committee announced that Annan and Yuan would share the award. Zen master Yicheng was awarded the 2013 prize for his work as chairman of"
"by the committee as its new chairperson, succeeding Thorbjørn Jagland, marking the first time in the history of the 1900 founded committee that the incumbent chairman was replaced without retiring deliberately. Since 2009, she has been one of the seven regular board members of the Sweden-based Nobel Foundation, which has the overall responsibility for all the five Nobel Prizes. As a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, she was involved in the decisions to award the Nobel Peace Prize to, among others, Shirin Ebadi, Al Gore, Martti Ahtisaari, Barack Obama, Liu Xiaobo and the European Union. She praised Thorbjørn Jagland"
"include: On 10 December 1989 the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee recognized his efforts in ""the struggle of the liberation of Tibet and the efforts for a peaceful resolution instead of using violence."" The chairman of the Nobel committee said that the award was ""in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi."" In his acceptance speech the Dalai Lama criticised China for using force against student protesters during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He said the victims' efforts were not in vain. His speech focused on the importance of the continued use"
"2011 Nobel Peace Prize The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to three female political activists. Two African and one Asian female were awarded for their persistence in obtaining equal rights for women. The joint laureated were: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni politician Tawakkul Karman ""for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work"". In announcing the award on 7 October 2011, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjørn Jagland, stressed the link between women's rights, peace and democracy. The winner is"
"candidate Jan Jananayagam at the 2009 European Parliament election, a last-minute candidate standing on a platform of anti-genocide, civil liberties, financial transparency, the environment and women's rights, who became one of the most successful independent election candidates ever despite her loss in the general election. In October 2009, she stated that the President of the United States Barack Obama should give back his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ""like John Lennon sent back his MBE."" She said in one interview, playing on the famous Lennon phrase ""Give Peace a Chance"": ""I'm a bit beyond being an artist who says, 'Give peace"
"and 23 organizations. Sixteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, more than any other Nobel Prize. Only two recipients have won multiple Prizes: the International Committee of the Red Cross has won three times (1917, 1944, and 1963) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has won twice (1954 and 1981). Lê Đức Thọ is the only person who refused to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Norwegian: "")"" is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred"
"in 1994, the Rotary International (Pakistan) awarded Man of the Year 2005 Gold Medal in 2006, Sitara Eisaar for earthquake work and Hilal-i-Imtiaz on Pakistan Day in 2006 by the President of Pakistan. In 2009 he was elected as Senior Ashoka Fellow. The list of nominees for the annual Nobel Peace Prize has always been a closely guarded secret over the last 50 years, with just a few names leaked to the public. One such nominee whose name slipped the net is Shoaib Sultan Khan. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for ""unleashing the power and"
"Nadia Murad Nadia Murad Basee Taha (; born 1993 in Kocho, Sinjar, Iraq) is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who lives in Germany. In 2014 she was kidnapped from her hometown Kocho and held by the Islamic State for three months. In 2018, she and Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ""their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict"". She is the first Iraqi and Yazidi to be awarded a Nobel prize. Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative, an organization dedicated to ""helping women and"
"in Norway who saluted him in on 10 December in Oslo, by waving the flags of Albania and Kosovo. 2008 Nobel Peace Prize The 2008 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President of Finland (1994–2000) Martti Ahtisaari ""for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts"". The 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate was announced on the press conference in Oslo, Norway on October 10, 2008. The committee's decision was heavily criticized in Serbia, because of Ahtisaari's role in the Kosovo status process (the Government of Serbia rejects Ahtisaari's plan because it would"
"award. Some past recipients have been: Danielle Mitterrand, former First Lady of France, in 1989 for her work with children in Third World countries. President George H. W. Bush in 1991 for his role in bringing peace and democracy to the Middle East during and after the Gulf War. King Juan Carlos I of Spain, 1991, for peacefully bringing democracy to his country. Laura Bush, 2002, for her career in bettering children’s education. Oprah Winfrey, 2007, for her global humanitarian efforts, and education of children. Nicolas Sarkozy, former French President, won the award in 2008 for renewing ties with WW2"
"Neda Agha-Soltan arose from conscience-driven protests against the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Female Muslim lawyer Shirin Ebadi (winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize) has been described as the 'conscience of the Islamic Republic' for her work in protecting the human rights of women and children in Iran. The human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, often referred to as the 'conscience of China' and who had previously been arrested and allegedly tortured by the Chinese regime for defending members of the Falun Gong, was abducted by Chinese security agents on 4 February 2009 and has not been seen since. 2010 Nobel"
"Norwegian Church Aid, Plan International Norway and JOIN Good Forces. 2018 Nobel Peace Prize The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad ""for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict,"" according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee announcement on 5 October 2018 in Oslo, Norway. ""Both laureates have made a crucial contribution to focusing attention on, and combating, such war crimes,"" according to the award citation. After reading the citation, Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen told reporters that the impact of this year's award is to highlight"
"2014 Nobel Peace Prize The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"". Satyarthi is from India, the seventh person from his country to win a Nobel Prize and the second to win the Peace Prize after Mother Teresa, while Yousafzai is a Muslim from Pakistan, the second Nobel Prize winner from her country after Abdus Salam, the forty-seventh woman to win the Nobel Prize, and at the age of 17 years,"