Mother Teresa. Nelson Mandela. Jimmy Carter.
They're just a few peacemakers chosen for the world's most coveted award.
The prerequisite for winning the Nobel Peace Prize: Making a difference.
The prize lauds people for their work in a wide range of fields. Human rights. Mediation of international conflicts. Arms control. The world's environment.
Each laureate takes home a shiny gold medal and at least $1 million. They use the money to further their cause, whether it's building new hospitals or schools for the poor or funding research.
Take a look at other past laureates:";
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Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to build a lasting peace in places as diverse as East Timor and the Balkans in Europe.";
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Former Vice President Al Gore shared the Nobel with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it.
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The Bangladeshi economist and the Grameen Bank he founded were lauded for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans — microcredit — to lift millions out of poverty.
Through Yunus' efforts and those of the bank he founded, poor people around the world, especially women, have been able to buy cows, a few chickens or the cell phone they desperately needed to get ahead.
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ElBaradei and the agency won for their drive to curb the spread of atomic weapons by using diplomacy to resolve standoffs with Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs.
The Nobel Committee’s decision lent support to negotiations and inspections, not military action, as the best way to handle volatile nations. It also was seen as a message to the Bush administration, which invaded Iraq after claiming U.N. efforts to eradicate Saddam Hussein’s nuclear ambitions had failed and which opposed ElBaradei’s appointment to another term.
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The first African woman and first Kenyan to win, Maathai was selected for her role in founding the Green Belt Movement, which has sought to empower women, improve the environment and fight corruption in Africa for nearly 30 years.
Maathai, who was the 12th woman to be honored, warned that the world remained under attack from disease, deforestation and war, and she urged new approaches to solving those problems.
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Iran's first female judge received the honor for her efforts in democracy and human rights.
The Iranian lawyer led the country's struggle for women's and children's rights. She is best known for defending persecuted Iranians and has braved reprisals for her work and beliefs.";
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The former president was honored for his pursuit of peace, health and human rights.
The Nobel Committee applauded Carter's \"untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.\"
His peace work started with the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt.
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The Norwegian committee praised the international organization and its secretary general for working for human rights, fighting HIV/AIDS and terrorism, and attempting to defuse global conflicts.
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The French medical team, Doctors without Borders in English, was honored for work with victims of war and natural disasters.
Developed in the 1970s, the volunteer group has worked in dozens of countries and amid some of the most dangerous conflicts in the world.";
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These two political rivals were architects of the agreement to settle the religious and social conflict in Northern Ireland.
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1906: President Theodore Roosevelt for his treaty between Russia and Japan.
1919: Woodrow Wilson, U.S. president and founder of the League of Nations.
1964: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, campaigner for civil rights.
1973: Henry Kissinger, U.S. secretary of state, and Le Duc Tho, North Vietnam, who declined the prize. Jointly negotiated the Vietnam peace accord in 1973.
1979: Mother Teresa, leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.
1983: Lech Walesa, Poland, founder of Solidarity, campaigner for human rights.
1989: The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, for his religious and political leadership of the Tibetan people.
1990: Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, helped to bring the Cold War to an end.
1991: Aung San Suu Kyi, opposition leader and human rights advocate in Myanmar.
1993: Nelson Mandela, former South African president.
1994: Yasser Arafat, Palestine, PLO leader; Shimon Peres, Israeli foreign minister, and Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister. The three were lauded for efforts to settle the conflict in the Middle East.
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• No Gandhi? Why?: Mohandas Gandhi was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and, finally, a few days before he was assassinated in January 1948.
The omission has been publicly regretted by the Nobel Committee; when the Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989, the chairman of the committee said that this was \"in part a tribute to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi.\" However, the committee has never commented on the speculation as to why Gandhi was not awarded the prize.
• Embarrassing moments: How about a few candidates the Nobel committee has managed to avoid: Adolf Hitler, nominated in 1939 by a Swedish legislator and withdrawn the same year; Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, nominated in 1945 by a Norwegian former foreign minister and in 1948 by a Czech professor; Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who got two nominations in 1935, by a French law professor and a German college law faculty member.
• The first ones: Henry Dunant, founder of the Red Cross, shared the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 with Frédéric Passy, a leading international pacifist of the time.
• America brings one home: Twenty-two Americans have won the Nobel Prize for Peace since its introduction in 1901, including two standing presidents - Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson - and one former president, Jimmy Carter.
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