Following are winners of the Nobel Peace Prize since 1980
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2003 - Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi
2002 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter
2001 - The United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan
2000 - South Korean President Kim Dae-jung
1999 - Medical aid charity Medecins Sans Frontieres
1998 - Northern Ireland politicians John Hume and David Trimble
1997 - The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) and campaign coordinator Jody Williams
1996 - Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Belo and Jose Ramos Horta, campaigners for human rights in East Timor
1995 - Veteran anti-nuclear campaigner Joseph Rotblat and his Pugwash organisation
1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat
1993 - African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela and South African President F.W. de Klerk
1992 - Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan campaigner for Indian human rights
1991 - Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
1989 - The Dalai Lama, exiled spiritual and political leader of Tibet
1988 - U.N. Peacekeeping Forces
1987 - Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, author of a peace plan for Central America
1986 - Elie Wiesel, Jewish author and human rights campaigner
1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, led by Yevgeny Chazov of the Soviet Union and Bernard Lown of the United States
1984 - Desmond Tutu, head of Anglican Church in South Africa and anti-apartheid campaigner
1983 - Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's Solidarity union
1982 - Shared by Sweden's Minister for Disarmament Alva Myrdal and Mexican diplomat and former foreign minister Alfonso Garcia Robles
1981 - Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
1980 - Argentine human rights campaigner Adolfo Perez Esquivel