World Leaders Blog

According to Alfred Nobel’s will, the Peace Prize should be awarded “to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”.

This is a list of world presidents who were awarded the nobel peace prize:

• In 1906 Theodore Roosevelt (U.S. President from 1901-1909) was awarded the peace prize for helping to end the Russian-Japanese war of 1904.
• In 1919 Thomas Woodrow Wilson (U.S. President from 1913-1921) in recognition for his work to establish the League of Nations, a forerunner of the United Nations.
• In 1978 Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat (President of Egypt from 1970-1981) and Menachem Begin (Prime Minister of Israel from 1977-1983) for jointly negotiating peace between Egypt and Israel.
• In 1987 Oscar Arias Sanchez (current President of Costa Rica), before he became president, received the peace prize for his work for peace in Central America, efforts which led to the accord signed in Guatemala on August 7 this year.
• In 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev (Presidents of the USSR from 1990-1991) for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community.
• In 1993 Nelson Mandela (President of South Africa from 1994-1999) and Frederik Willem de Klerk (president of South Africa from 1989-1994) for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.
• In 1994 Yasser Arafat (Palestine President from 1996-2004), jointly with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin were awarded the peace prize for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.
• In 2002 Jimmy Carter (U.S. President from 1977-1981) was awarded the peace prize for his work to promote peace and democracy in the world.