President Barack Obama of the USA emerged a few minutes ago as the 2009 Nobel peace Prize winner, for according to the 5-man committee, “… his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples,… His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population.” CONGRATS, YES, WE CAN!

• 2009: U.S. President Barack Obama

• 2008: Martti Ahtisaari

• 2007: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore

• 2006: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank

• 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei

• 2004: Wangari Maathai

• 2003: Shirin Ebadi

• 2002: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter

• 2001: United Nations, Kofi Annan

• 2000: Kim Dae-jung

• 1999: Medecins Sans Frontieres

• 1998: John Hume, David Trimble

• 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams

• 1996: Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, Jose Ramos-Horta

• 1995: Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs

• 1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin

• 1993: Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk

• 1992: Rigoberta Menchu Tum

• 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi

• 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev

• 1989: The 14th Dalai Lama

• 1988: U.N. Peacekeeping Forces

• 1987: Oscar Arias Sanchez

• 1986: Elie Wiesel

• 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War

• 1984: Desmond Tutu

• 1983: Lech Walesa

• 1982: Alva Myrdal, Alfonso Garcia Robles

• 1981: Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees

• 1980: Adolfo Perez Esquivel

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