Nobel Peace Center

Nobel Education

ALFRED NOBEL AND THE STORY BEHIND THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

With a strong motivation to create a better world, Alfred Nobel wrote his will, establishing the Nobel Peace Prize and four other Nobel Prizes.

What drove the creative and innovative Alfred Nobel to create these awards? How does the Nobel Peace Prize work, and how has it evolved since the beginning?

Read more about Nobel’s passion for science and literature +

Read more about the Nobel Committee and the Nobel year +

ALFRED NOBEL AND THE STORY BEHIND THE PRIZE

Read more about how the prize evolved in this period +

THE BEGINNING OF THE PEACE PRIZE

Watch Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech +

POST-WAR PERIOD AND COLD WAR

See the short film about Wangari Maathai +

Watch Malala Yousafzai’s iconic speech +

THE MODERN-DAY PEACE PRIZE

Here you can navigate to the different parts of the exhibition. Learn more about Alfred Nobel and the story behind the peace prize, or explore the story of the prize and its evolution since it was first awarded in 1901.