1967 Nobel Peace Prize

Award

Award

1967 Nobel Peace Prize

"to the person (or group) who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."

Location| Oslo, Norway
Presented by| Norwegian Nobel Committee
First awarded| 1901
Website| Official website
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The 1967 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded because the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that none of the nominations met the criteria in Nobel's will. Instead, the prize money was allocated with 1/3 to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.[1]

## Deliberations

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### Nominations

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In total, the Norwegian Nobel Committee received 95 nominations for 37 individuals and 10 organizations such as Vinoba Bhave, Grenville Clark, Norman Cousins, Danilo Dolci, Pope Paul VI, Bertrand Russell (awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature), U Thant, the International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade and the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA). The highest number of nominations – 11 recommendation letters – was for the Austrian–Japanese politician Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi.[2]

Twenty five of these nominees were nominated for the first time such as Abbé Pierre, Ernest Gruening, Kurt Hahn, Thích Nhất Hạnh, İsmet İnönü, Danny Kaye, Sargent Shriver, Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Binay Ranjan Sen, Amnesty International (awarded in 1977), the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) and the Islands of Peace. The British philanthropist Sue Ryder was the only female nominee. Notable figures such as Félicien Challaye, Che Guevara, Woody Guthrie, Florence Jaffray Harriman, Harold Holt, Kathleen Innes, Annette Kolb, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Abraham Johannes Muste and Georges Vanier died in 1967 without having been nominated for the peace prize while the American philosopher William Ernest Hocking was nominated posthumously.[2]

Official list of nominees and their nominators for the prize  No. | Nominee | Country/
Headquarters | Motivations | Nominator(s)

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Individuals
1  | Abbé Pierre, O.F.M.Cap
(1912–2007)  |  France | No motivation included. | Bodil Koch
(1903–1972)
Poul Hartling
(1914–2000)
Julius Bomholt
(1896–1969)
2  | Vinoba Bhave
(1895–1982)  |  India | No motivation included. |  Dominique Pire, O.P.
(1910–1969)
3  | Charles Braibant
(1889–1976)  |  France | No motivation included. | Gabriel Le Bras
(1891–1970)
4  | Frederick Burdick (?)
(prob. Eugene Burdick (1918–1965)) |  United States | No motivation included. | Paul Douglas
(1892–1976)
Watkins Abbitt
(1908–1998)
Kenneth J. Gray
(1924–2014)
5  | Sanjib Chaudhuri (?)  |  India | No motivation included. | Thakur Bateshwar Singh (?)
6  | Leonard Cheshire
(1917–1992)  |  United Kingdom | No motivation included. | Bob Cotton
(1915–2006)
7  | Grenville Clark
(1882–1967)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Henry Hicks
(1915–1990)
Brunson MacChesney
(1909–1978)
Arthur Larson
(1910–1993)
Norman MacKenzie
(1894–1986)
Joseph S. Clark Jr.
(1901–1990)
Robert Kastenmeier
(1924–2015)
Louis Susky (?)
Arturo Orzábal de la Quintana
(1892–1969)
Harold J. Berman
(1918–2007)
8  | Walter Corti
(1910–1990)  |  Switzerland | No motivation included. | Max Goldener (?)
9  | Norman Cousins
(1915–1990)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Norman St John-Stevas
(1929–2012)
Mervyn Stockwood
(1913–1995)
10  | Danilo Dolci
(1924–1997)  |  Italy | No motivation included. | John Kay
(b. 1942)
members of the Swedish Parliament
11  | Harry Elias Edmonds
(1883–1979)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Oliver Kitson
(1915–1996)
12  | J. William Fulbright
(1905–1995)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Giannēs Koutsocheras
(1904–1994)
13  | Ernest Gruening
(1887–1974)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Denna Frank Fleming
(1893–1980)
14  | Kurt Hahn
(1886–1974)  |  Germany | No motivation included. | Helmut Haussmann
(b. 1943)
Hugh Trevor-Roper
(1914–2003)
15  | Thích Nhất Hạnh
(1926–2022)  |  Vietnam | "for his lifelong efforts to promote peace, social justice and reconciliation in between North and South Vietnam."  | George McTurnan Kahin
(1918–2000)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
Walter Nash
(1882–1968)
Jim Cairns
(1914–2003)
John G. Dow
(1905–2003)
Lawrence Fuchs
(1927–2013)
Horace L. Friess
(1900–1975)
16  | William Ernest Hocking
(1873–1966)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Bob Wilson
(1916–1999)
17  | William P. Holman
(1914–2003)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Odin Langen
(1913–1976)
18  | Robert Maynard Hutchins
(1899–1977)  |  United States | No motivation included. | J. William Fulbright
(1905–1995)
19  | İsmet İnönü
(1884–1973)  |  Turkey | No motivation included. | members of Turkish Parliament
20  | Marc Joux (?)  |  France | No motivation included. | Auguste Billiemaz
(1903–1983)
21  | Danny Kaye
(1911–1987)  |  United States | "for his role as the first UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador."  | John H. Lavely
(b. 1943)
22  | Wayne Morse
(1900–1974)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Denna Frank Fleming
(1893–1980)
23  | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
(1919–1980)  |  Iran | No motivation included. | members of the British Parliament
24  | Pope Paul VI
(1897–1978)  |  Vatican City | No motivation included. | José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones
(1898–1980)
25  | Charles Rhyne
(1912–2003)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Frank Moss
(1911–2003)
26  | Das Moni Roy (1895–?)  |  India | No motivation included. | Subimal Kunnar Mukherjee (?)
27  |  Bertrand Russell
(1872–1970)  |  United Kingdom | No motivation included. | Ivan Petrovsky
(1901–1973)
28  | Sue Ryder
(1924–2000)  |  United Kingdom | No motivation included. | Rab Butler
(1902–1982)
Bob Cotton
(1915–2006)
29  | Binay Ranjan Sen
(1898–1993)  |  India | No motivation included. | Rakel Seweriin
(1906–1995)
30  | Sargent Shriver
(1915–2011)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Richard Ottinger
(b. 1929)
31  | Isidor Feinstein Stone
(1907–1989)  |  United States | No motivation included. |  Linus Pauling
(1901–1994)
32  | Clarence Streit
(1896–1986)  |  United States | No motivation included. | Geoffrey de Freitas
(1913–1982)
33  | U Thant
(1909–1974)  |  Burma | No motivation included. | American Friends Service Committee[a]
Friends Service Council[b]
professors at the Leiden University
5 members of the Norwegian Parliament
34  | Östen Undén
(1886–1974)  |  Sweden | No motivation included. | members of the Swedish Parliament
35  | Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi
(1894–1972)  |  Austria
Japan | No motivation included. | Gaston Eyskens
(1905–1988)
Victor Larock
(1904–1977)
John Biggs-Davison
(1918–1988)
Arthur Gibson (?)
Rudolf Suter
(1914–2011)
François Perin
(1921–2013)
Hans-Joachim von Merkatz
(1905–1982)
Erich Mende
(1916–1998)
Friedrich Heer
(1916–1983)
Franz Josef Strauss
(1915–1988)
Leopoldo Rubinacci
(1903–1969)
36  | Quincy Wright
(1890–1970)  |  United States | No motivation included. | J. David Singer
(1925–2009)
37  | Shigeru Yoshida
(1878–1967)  |  Japan | No motivation included. | 3 members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
Shigeru Kuriyama
(1886–1971)
Organizations
38  | Amnesty International
(founded in 1961)  | London | No motivation included. | 4 members of the Norwegian Parliament
9 professors at the University of Oslo
39  | Islands of Peace
(founded in 1958)  | Huy | No motivation included. | Willy De Clercq
(1927–2011)
Raymond Vander Elst
(1914–2008)
40  | Lions Clubs International
(founded in 1917)  | Oak Brook | No motivation included. | Howard Cannon
(1912–2002)
Kaare Meland
(1915–2002)
Karl Boo
(1918–1996)
41  | International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
(founded in 1952)  | London | No motivation included. | 6 members of the Swedish Parliament
42  | International Union for Land Value Taxation and Free Trade (The IU)
(founded in 1926)  | London | No motivation included. | Johan Møller Warmedal
(1914–1988)
43  | Organization of American States (OAS)
(founded in 1948)  | Washington, D.C. | No motivation included. | Carlos Dunshee de Abranches
(1913–1983)
B. J. Tennery (?)
44  | United Poets Laureate International (UPLI)
(founded in 1963)  | Manila | "for promoting world brotherhood and peace through poetry"  | Angel Macapagal
(1917–1993)
45  | Universal Esperanto Association (UEA)
(founded in 1908)  | Rotterdam | No motivation included. | Werner Kubitza
(1919–1995)
Karl Geldner
(1927–2017)
members of the Swedish Parliament
Émile Durieux
(1905–1995)
Louis Philibert
(1912–2000)
Franz Stein
(1900–1967)
5 members of the Norwegian Parliament
Kjell Bondevik
(1901–1983)
46  | Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
(founded in 1915)  | Geneva | No motivation included. | Marie Lous Mohr
(1892–1973)
47  | World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA)
(founded in 1946)  | New York City | No motivation included. | Paul Guggenheim
(1899–1977)

## Norwegian Nobel Committee

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The following members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee appointed by the Storting were responsible for the selection of the 1969 Nobel laureate in accordance with the will of Alfred Nobel:[3]

1969 Norwegian Nobel Committee

Picture  | Name  | Position  | Political Party  | Other posts
| Nils Langhelle[c]
(1907–1967)  | Chairman
(until August)  | Labour | former Minister of Defence (1952–1954)
President of the Storting (1958–1965)
| Bernt Ingvaldsen
(1902–1982)  | Chairman
(from August)  | Conservative | President of the Storting (1965–1972)
| Aase Lionæs
(1907–1999)  | Member  | Labour | Vice President of the Lagting (1965–1973)
| Helge Refsum
(1897–1976)  | Member  | Centre | former Judge at the Gulating Court (1922–1949)
| Helge Rognlien
(1920–2001)  | Member  | Liberal | former Leader of the Young Liberals of Norway (1946–1948)
| Erling Wikborg[c]
(1894–1992)  | Member  | Christian People | former Leader of the Christian Democratic Party (1951–1955)

## Notes

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1. ^ The nomination was made by Colin W Bell on behalf of American Friends Service Committee.
2. ^ The nomination was made by George W Whiteman on behalf of Friends Service Council.
3. ^ a b "When Langhelle died in August 1967, Ingvaldsen replaced him as chairman and Erling Wikborg became a new member of the Committee."

## References

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1. ^ The Nobel Peace Prize 1967 nobelprize.org
2. ^ a b Nomination archive – Peace 1967 nobelprize.org
3. ^ The Norwegian Nobel Committee 1901-2017 nobelprize.org

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Laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize

1901–1925|

* 1901: Henry Dunant / Frédéric Passy
* 1902: Élie Ducommun / Charles Gobat
* 1903: Randal Cremer
* 1904: Institut de Droit International
* 1905: Bertha von Suttner
* 1906: Theodore Roosevelt
* 1907: Ernesto Moneta / Louis Renault
* 1908: Klas Arnoldson / Fredrik Bajer
* 1909: A. M. F. Beernaert / Paul Estournelles de Constant
* 1910: International Peace Bureau
* 1911: Tobias Asser / Alfred Fried
* 1912: Elihu Root
* 1913: Henri La Fontaine
* 1914
* 1915
* 1916
* 1917: International Committee of the Red Cross
* 1918
* 1919: Woodrow Wilson
* 1920: Léon Bourgeois
* 1921: Hjalmar Branting / Christian Lange
* 1922: Fridtjof Nansen
* 1923
* 1924
* 1925: Austen Chamberlain / Charles Dawes

1926–1950|

* 1926: Aristide Briand / Gustav Stresemann
* 1927: Ferdinand Buisson / Ludwig Quidde
* 1928
* 1929: Frank B. Kellogg
* 1930: Nathan Söderblom
* 1931: Jane Addams / Nicholas Butler
* 1932
* 1933: Norman Angell
* 1934: Arthur Henderson
* 1935: Carl von Ossietzky
* 1936: Carlos Saavedra Lamas
* 1937: Robert Cecil
* 1938: Nansen International Office for Refugees
* 1939
* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944: International Committee of the Red Cross
* 1945: Cordell Hull
* 1946: Emily Balch / John Mott
* 1947: Friends Service Council / American Friends Service Committee
* 1948
* 1949: John Boyd Orr
* 1950: Ralph Bunche

1951–1975|

* 1951: Léon Jouhaux
* 1952: Albert Schweitzer
* 1953: George C. Marshall
* 1954: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
* 1955
* 1956
* 1957: Lester B. Pearson
* 1958: Georges Pire
* 1959: Philip Noel-Baker
* 1960: Albert Luthuli
* 1961: Dag Hammarskjöld
* 1962: Linus Pauling
* 1963: International Committee of the Red Cross / League of Red Cross Societies
* 1964: Martin Luther King Jr.
* 1965: UNICEF
* 1966
* 1967
* 1968: René Cassin
* 1969: International Labour Organization
* 1970: Norman Borlaug
* 1971: Willy Brandt
* 1972
* 1973: Lê Đức Thọ (declined award) / Henry Kissinger
* 1974: Seán MacBride / Eisaku Satō
* 1975: Andrei Sakharov

1976–2000|

* 1976: Betty Williams / Mairead Corrigan
* 1977: Amnesty International
* 1978: Anwar Sadat / Menachem Begin
* 1979: Mother Teresa
* 1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
* 1981: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
* 1982: Alva Myrdal / Alfonso García Robles
* 1983: Lech Wałęsa
* 1984: Desmond Tutu
* 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
* 1986: Elie Wiesel
* 1987: Óscar Arias
* 1988: UN Peacekeeping Forces
* 1989: Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
* 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev
* 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi
* 1992: Rigoberta Menchú
* 1993: Nelson Mandela / F. W. de Klerk
* 1994: Shimon Peres / Yitzhak Rabin / Yasser Arafat
* 1995: Pugwash Conferences / Joseph Rotblat
* 1996: Carlos Belo / José Ramos-Horta
* 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines / Jody Williams
* 1998: John Hume / David Trimble
* 1999: Médecins Sans Frontières
* 2000: Kim Dae-jung

2001–present|

* 2001: United Nations / Kofi Annan
* 2002: Jimmy Carter
* 2003: Shirin Ebadi
* 2004: Wangari Maathai
* 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency / Mohamed ElBaradei
* 2006: Grameen Bank / Muhammad Yunus
* 2007: Al Gore / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
* 2008: Martti Ahtisaari
* 2009: Barack Obama
* 2010: Liu Xiaobo
* 2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / Leymah Gbowee / Tawakkol Karman
* 2012: European Union
* 2013: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
* 2014: Kailash Satyarthi / Malala Yousafzai
* 2015: Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
* 2016: Juan Manuel Santos
* 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
* 2018: Denis Mukwege / Nadia Murad
* 2019: Abiy Ahmed
* 2020: World Food Programme
* 2021: Maria Ressa / Dmitry Muratov
* 2022: Ales Bialiatski / Memorial / Center for Civil Liberties
* 2023: Narges Mohammadi
* 2024: Nihon Hidankyo

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