Peace Prize

Award for peacemakers

A Peace Prize is an award honoring contributions to peace, diplomacy, or humanitarian causes.

The most prominent is the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded annually in Norway since 1901: She won the Peace Prize for her work on nuclear disarmament.

Other peace prizes exist at national and regional levels, but without qualification, Peace Prize typically means the Nobel.

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