Nobel Peace Prize
                     Nobel Peace 
Prize 
Introduction
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 102 times to 
137 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021, 109 
individuals and 28 organizations. 
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Initiation of Nobel prize
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will 
and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune - 
more than SEK 31 million to be converted into a fund 
and invested in "safe securities." 
The income from the investments was to be 
"distributed annually in the form of prizes to those who 
during the preceding year have conferred the greatest 
benefit to mankind."
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Prize categories
The Nobel Prizes were initially given in the areas of 
Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature 
and Peace. 
In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) 
established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic 
Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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Intention for Nobel Peace Prize
The will Alfred Nobel made in 1895 was inspired by 
belief in the community of man. 
The Peace Prize was to be awarded to the person who 
had done most for "fraternity between nations, for the 
abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the 
holding and promotion of peace congresses".
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Nominators
• Members of national assemblies and governments 
and members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
• Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and 
the International Court of Justice at the Hague
• Members of Institut de Droit International
• Academics at the professor or associate professor 
level in history, social sciences, philosophy, law, and 
theology, university rectors, university directors (or 
their equivalents), and directors of peace research 
and international affairs institutes
• Previous recipients, including board members of 
organizations that have received the prize
• Present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel 
Committee
• Former permanent advisers to the Norwegian Nobel 
Institute
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Nomination
Each year, the Norwegian Nobel Committee specifically 
invites qualified people to submit nominations for the 
Nobel Peace Prize. 
The statutes of the Nobel Foundation specify categories 
of individuals who are eligible to make nominations for 
the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Selection
• Nominations are considered by the Nobel 
Committee at a meeting where a shortlist of 
candidates for further review is created. 
• This shortlist is then considered by permanent 
advisers to the Nobel institute, which consists of the 
institute's Director and the Research Director and a 
small number of Norwegian academics with 
expertise in subject areas relating to the prize.
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Awarding the prize
• The Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee 
presents the Nobel Peace Prize in the presence of 
the King of Norway and the Norwegian royal family 
on 10 December each year (the anniversary of 
Nobel's death). 
• The Peace Prize is the only Nobel Prize not 
presented in Stockholm.
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First award
• The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. The 
Peace Prize for that year was shared between the 
Frenchman Frédéric Passy and the Swiss Jean Henry 
Dunant.
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Norwegian Nobel Committee
• Alfred Nobel’s will declared that the Nobel Peace 
Prize was to be awarded by a committee of five 
persons selected by the Norwegian Storting 
(parliament). 
• The Storting accepted the assignment in April 1897, 
and the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Storting 
was set up in August of the same year. 
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