"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"
"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"
"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"
"Peace Prize, a separate prize awarded by a panel appointed by the Soviet government. Some of those sympathetic to the Israeli treatment of Palestinians expressed the opinion that the award lost credibility in 1980 when it was presented to Yasser Arafat, whom they considered a terrorist. They also objected to awarding the prize to Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser. Some who were unfriendly to the socialist cause objected to awarding the prize to Cuban president Fidel Castro and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev as well as Romanian premier Nicole Ceauşescu. In 2002, the WPC denied news reports that it had given"
"community"". Criticism for this award was due to the fact that the Soviet President destabilised the Eastern bloc and caused the economic collapse and fall of the Soviet Union. The 1989 prize went to the 14th Dalai Lama. The committee's selection was opposed by the Chinese government, which opposes the Dalai Lama's activities regarding Tibet. Additionally, the Nobel Prize Committee cited their intention to put pressure on China, due to the Tiananmen Square Massacre which happened in June 1989. The 1978 prize went to Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt during the 1973 Yom Kippur War against Israel, and Menachem"
"Hollande, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Manuel Valls and Emmanuel Macron in France, Costas Simitis in Greece, Viktor Klima and Alfred Gusenbauer in Austria, Ingvar Carlsson and Göran Persson in Sweden, Paavo Lipponen in Finland, Helle Thorning-Schmidt in Denmark, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun in South Korea, Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin in Canada, Ferenc Gyurcsány in Hungary, Victor Ponta in Romania, Leszek Miller and Marek Belka in Poland, Fernando Henrique Cardoso in Brazil, Alan Garcia and Alejandro Toledo in Peru, Thabo Mbeki in South Africa, Muammar Gaddafi of Jamahiriya-era Libya and Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet in Chile. In 1990, after the"
"165 nations. The dignitaries included 36 past and present heads of state and government, and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. Leading the dignitaries were Gorbachev, Thatcher, Mulroney, and Prince Charles (representing Queen Elizabeth II). Other world leaders included British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Polish President Lech Wałęsa, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Jordan's King Abdullah, Australian Governor-General Michael Jeffery, as well as interim presidents Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Ghazi al-Yawer of Iraq, and Irish President Mary McAleese. Blair,"
"to their peacefulness. In 2017 it ranked 163 countries, up from 121 in 2007. In the past decade, the GPI has presented trends of increased global violence and less peacefulness. The study is the brainchild of Australian technology entrepreneur Steve Killelea, founder of Integrated Research, and is endorsed by individuals such as former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, archbishop Desmond Tutu, former President of Finland and 2008 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, economist Jeffrey Sachs, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Jan Eliasson and former United"
"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"
"along with a check for €122,000, by an international jury composed of 11 persons from five continents, led by former United States Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger. The prize was first awarded in 1991 to Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress, and Frederik Willem de Klerk, president of the Republic of South Africa, and has been awarded each year since, with the exception of 2001 and 2004. Félix Houphouët-Boigny Félix Houphouët-Boigny (; 18 October 1905 – 7 December 1993), affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux (The Old One), was the first President"
"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"
"in Hong Kong as the ""China International Peace Research Center"", awarding the prize to Vladimir Putin in November 2011, to Kofi Annan and Yuan Longping in 2012, to Fidel Castro in 2014, to Robert Mugabe in 2015 and Hun Sen in 2017. The Chinese government has denied having any connections with the prize. The Confucius Peace Prize originated as a response to the announcement that Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo had won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize; the awarding of the prize to Liu was viewed negatively in China, with some in the government arguing that Liu did not promote ""international"
"world peace in the 1980s and 90s. One of these, ""An Invitation to Peace"" (1987), won widespread acclaim, among others from the Russian premier Gorbachev, the Vatican, the French president, as well as both the president and prime minister of Israel. ″Allah (God), Let us bring peace to everywhere we go. Let us be uniters rather than dividers. Let us bring love where there is hate settled in. To the place where there is injury let us bring forgiveness and remedy. Let us, And let us (with your sincerely) allow to spread happiness where there is sadness. Allah (God)! Make"
"a successor. Óscar Arias Óscar Arias Sánchez (; born 13 September 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end the Central American crisis. He is also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims. Arias was born within an upper-class family in the province of Heredia. Arias"
"your approach celebrates our common humanity."" Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who was touted as a possible Nobel laureate, said Obama deserved the honor. In 2011 Bolivian President Evo Morales and Russian Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky condemned the award calling it hypocritical in light of US policy during the Libyan Civil War. After the death of Anwar al-Awlaki and his son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki by CIA predator drones in Yemen, Nasser al-Awlaki, the father and grandfather of Anwar and Abdulrahman respectively, released an audio message condemning the killings: President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace prize in person at the"
"Cold War"", hosted by former President George H.W. Bush, and moderated by Jim Lehrer of PBS. Five world leaders: George H.W. Bush (former President of the United States 1989-1993), Mikhail Gorbachev (former President of the Soviet Union 1985-1991), Margaret Thatcher (former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-1990), Brian Mulroney (former Prime Minister of Canada 1984-1993) and François Mitterrand (former President of the French Republic 1981-1995) gathered at a private daylong summit in Colorado Springs,Colorado as part of a weekend fundraiser for the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center. They were the world leaders when the Berlin Wall came down,"
"of the most militarized country in the world, which has taken the human family against its will to war, will be rightly seen by many people around the world as a reward for his country's aggression and domination."" Lech Wałęsa, (1983) cofounder of the Solidarity trade union, and former president of Poland said the award was premature. ""He has not yet made a real input."" The 14th Dalai Lama congratulated Obama. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the Nobel Committee's choice. ""We are entering an era of renewed multilateralism [...] President Obama embodies the new spirit of dialogue and engagement"
"reconvene the international peace conference in Madrid. A pivotal point came with Bush's September 11, 1990 ""Toward a New World Order"" speech () to a joint session of Congress. This time it was Bush, not Gorbachev, whose idealism was compared to Woodrow Wilson and to Franklin D. Roosevelt at the creation of the United Nations. Key points picked up in the press were: These were the common themes that emerged from reporting about Bush's speech and its implications. Critics held that Bush and Baker remained too vague about what exactly the order entailed: ""The New York Times"" observed that the"
"Martti Ahtisaari Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari ( born 23 June 1937) is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland (1994–2000), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a United Nations diplomat and mediator noted for his international peace work. Ahtisaari was a United Nations special envoy for Kosovo, charged with organizing the Kosovo status process negotiations, aimed at resolving a long-running dispute in Kosovo, which later declared its independence from Serbia in 2008. In October 2008, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ""for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts""."
"Martti Ahtisaari Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari ( born 23 June 1937) is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland (1994–2000), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a United Nations diplomat and mediator noted for his international peace work. Ahtisaari was a United Nations special envoy for Kosovo, charged with organizing the Kosovo status process negotiations, aimed at resolving a long-running dispute in Kosovo, which later declared its independence from Serbia in 2008. In October 2008, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ""for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts""."
"Óscar Arias Óscar Arias Sánchez (; born 13 September 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end the Central American crisis. He is also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims. Arias was born within an upper-class family in the province of Heredia. Arias concluded his"
"accolades, prizes, honorary degrees and citizenships in recognition of his political achievements. Among his awards were the Nobel Peace Prize, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize, and the Libyan Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights. In 1990, India awarded him the Bharat Ratna, and in 1992 Pakistan gave him their Nishan-e-Pakistan. The same year, he was awarded the Atatürk Peace Award by Turkey; he at first refused the award, citing human rights violations committed by Turkey at the time, but later accepted the award in 1999. He was appointed to the Order of Isabella"
"new thinking in his speech to the United Nations. The ""new thinking"" was of vital necessity for the Soviet Union to shut down the costly Cold War competition in order to continue internal economic reforms of ""perestroika"". Notable steps in this direction included Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, stopped support of communist movements around the world and loosened grip over the Eastern Europe by replacing the Brezhnev Doctrine with Sinatra Doctrine. In 1990 Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace ""for his leading role in the peace process"". The overall effect of these developments was the"
"a promotion of human rights. The initial idea of the Rafto Prize is to provide a basic informative platform for the laureates that would help to receive further attention from the international media and support from political and non-political organisations. By awarding the Rafto Prize, the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights seeks to bring attention to independent voices that due to oppressive and corrupt regimes are not always heard. In 1990, the Rafto Prize was awarded to a Burmese democratic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi who in the following year 1991 received the Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent struggle"
"by Simon Bolivar and is ranked just above Ivan the Terrible. Lech Wałęsa Lech Wałęsa (; born 29 September 1943) is a retired Polish politician and labour activist. He co-founded and headed Solidarity (""Solidarność""), the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. While working at the Lenin Shipyard (now Gdańsk Shipyard), Wałęsa, an electrician, became a trade-union activist, for which he was persecuted by the Communist authorities, placed under surveillance, fired in 1976, and arrested several times. In August 1980 he was instrumental in"
"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"
"Second World War, for his ""dedicated and devoted service to the cause of human liberty"". The first joint recipients of the award were Lane Kirkland and his wife Irena who won the prize in 1981. Lane was honored for his ""long devotion to the cause of refugees"" while Irena was described as ""very much a human rights activist"". Chinese dissidents Li Shuxian and Fang Lizhi were jointly honored in 1991; two American Presidents, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton took the prize as a pair in 2005, and film actress Angelina Jolie and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees High"
"U Thant Peace Award The U Thant Peace Award was created by Sri Chinmoy's peace meditations at the United Nations, after U Thant's death. First offered in 1982, the award is given to individuals and organizations who have exemplified the lofty spiritual ideals of the late United Nations Secretary-General U Thant and implemented those ideals in the tireless pursuit of world peace. It had been bestowed by The Peace Meditation at the United Nations upon Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Kurt Waldheim the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Dada J.P. Vaswani, Swami"
"the United States."" Castro's prize was received by a Cuban student in China. Nominated for the award in 2015 were the Chinese Taoist Association, Ban Ki-moon, former Japanese prime ministers Yasuo Fukuda and Tomiichi Murayama, Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev, Bill Gates, Chinese-American politician Anna Chennault, South Korean president Park Geun-hye, Hsing Yun of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist movement in Taiwan, and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Mugabe was eventually declared the winner for ""working tirelessly to build the political and economic stability of his country, bringing peace to the people of Zimbabwe, strongly supporting pan-Africanism and African independence, and making"
"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,"
"1989 and the Nobel Peace Prize on 15 October 1990. On 9 November, people in East Germany (the German Democratic Republic, GDR) were suddenly allowed to cross through the Berlin Wall into West Berlin, following a peaceful protest against the country's dictatorial administration, including a demonstration by some one million people in East Berlin on 4 November. Unlike earlier riots which were ended by military force with the help of the USSR, Gorbachev now decided not to interfere with the process in Germany. He stated that German reunification was an internal German matter. The rest of 1989 was taken up"
"on the world's biggest problems: climate change, nuclear disarmament and a wide range of peace and security challenges."" In Europe, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the award would reinforce Obama's determination to work for justice and peace. He added that the award ""finally confirms the return of America in the hearts of all the peoples of the world"". Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said the award will encourage warmer U.S.–Russian relations, and he hoped it would ""serve as an additional incentive"" for both governments to foster a better ""climate in world politics"". British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sent a private"
"Izetbegović, Comoros' Ikililou Dhoinine, Brunei Darussalam's Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah, Maldives' Mohammed Waheed Hassan, Albania's Bujar Nishani, Antigua and Barbuda's Winston Baldwin Spencer, Lebanon's Najib Mikati, Greece's Dimitris Avramopoulos, Bahrain's Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, Saint Lucia's Kenny Davis Anthony, Turkey's Ahmet Davutoğlu São Tomé and Príncipe's Patrice Emery Trovoada, Morocco's Moulay Rachid, Saudi Arabia's Saud Al-Faisal, UAE's Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Azerbaijan's Elmar Mammadyarov, Oman's Yousef Bin Al-Alawi Bin Abdulla, India's S. M. Krishna, Djibouti's Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, Costa Rica's Enrique Castillo, Botswana's Phandu T. C. Skelemani and Sierra Leone's J. B. Dauda. While some said violence is never"