Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Upcoming 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Winners will be announce soon, let's find out the winners of previous years.  

Martin Luther King was civil rights campaigner in the USA, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for being the first person in the Western world to have shown that a struggle can be waged without violence

Mother Teresa was born in, what is today, Macedonia, but spent most of her life in India.  She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 as the founder of Missionaries of Charity.

14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso won the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle for the liberation of Tibet and for consistently apposing the use of violence.  He has instead advocated peaceful sloultions based upon tolerance and mutual respect in order to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of his people.

Burmese apposition politician and chairperson of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her non violent struggle for democracy and human rights

Nelson Mandela won a joint Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with Frederik Willem de Klerk for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa. 

In addition to above brilliant  recipients there are a lot more past winners but my blog page is insufficient.....