A look back at Nobel Peace Prize winners

[mojo]

Thought it might be intriguing to look at past winners.

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes created by the Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
2015
Kailash Satyarthi
2014
Malala Yousafzai
2014
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
2013
European Union
2012
Tawakkol Karman
2011
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
2011
Leymah Gbowee
2011
Liu Xiaobo
2010
Barack Obama
2009
Martti Ahtisaari
2008
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2007
Al Gore
2007
Muhammad Yunus
2006
Grameen Bank
2006
International Atomic Energy Agency
2005
Mohamed ElBaradei
2005
Wangari Maathai
2004
Shirin Ebadi
2003
Jimmy Carter
2002
United Nations
2001
Kofi Annan
2001
Kim Dae-jung
2000
Doctors Without Borders
1999
John Hume
1998
David Trimble
1998
Jody Williams
1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
1997
José Ramos-Horta
1996
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
1996
Joseph Rotblat
1995
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1995
Yasser Arafat
1994
Shimon Peres
1994
Yitzhak Rabin
1994
F. W. de Klerk
1993
Nelson Mandela
1993
Rigoberta Menchú
1992
Aung San Suu Kyi
1991
Mikhail Gorbachev
1990
14th Dalai Lama
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
2015
Kailash Satyarthi
2014
Malala Yousafzai
2014
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
2013
European Union
2012
Tawakkol Karman
2011
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
2011
Leymah Gbowee
2011
Liu Xiaobo
2010
Barack Obama
2009
Martti Ahtisaari
2008
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2007
Al Gore
2007
Muhammad Yunus
2006
Grameen Bank
2006
International Atomic Energy Agency
2005
Mohamed ElBaradei
2005
Wangari Maathai
2004
Shirin Ebadi
2003
Jimmy Carter
2002
United Nations
2001
Kofi Annan
2001
Kim Dae-jung
2000
Doctors Without Borders
1999
John Hume
1998
David Trimble
1998
Jody Williams
1997
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
1997
José Ramos-Horta
1996
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
1996
Joseph Rotblat
1995
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
1995
Yasser Arafat
1994
Shimon Peres
1994
Yitzhak Rabin
1994
F. W. de Klerk
1993
Nelson Mandela
1993
Rigoberta Menchú
1992
Aung San Suu Kyi
1991
Mikhail Gorbachev
1990
14th Dalai Lama
1989
United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
1988
Óscar Arias
1987
Elie Wiesel
1986
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1985
Desmond Tutu
1984
Lech Wałęsa
1983
Alva Myrdal
1982
Alfonso García Robles
1982
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1981
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1980

[mojo]

In retrospect wonder if the committee would have chosen another nominee?

[gnostic9]

might it not be more enlightening to explore the fact that this so called prize is awarded in the name of an individual dedicated to the production of weapons of destruction?