Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (where Nobel is pronounced with the stress on the latter syllable) is one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to the will of Alfred Nobel the 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".

See also

• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
• Nobel Prize
• Norwegian Nobel Committee
• Sweden-Norway
• Nobel Prize controversies