As a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, AFSC has the opportunity to nominate worthy individuals or groups for the nobel prize. Several AFSC nominees have won the prize, although often a few years after our nomination, including Martin Luther King Jr., Jimmy Carter, and Desmond Tutu.
1948 Mahatma Gandhi
1949 John Boyd Orr
1950 Andre Trocme/Wilhelm Mensching
1951 Jawaharlal Nehru
1952 Sir Benegal Rau
1953 William O. Douglas
1954 Frank P. Graham
1955 Andre Trocme/Wilhelm Mensching
1956 Elisabeth Rotten
1957 Service Civil International
1958 No nomination
1959 No nomination
1960 Norman Cousins
1961 Dag Hammerskjold
1962 Norman Cousins
1963 Martin Luther King Jr.
1964 Martin Luther King Jr.
1965 Norman Cousins
1966 No nomination
1967 U Thant
1968 U Thant
1969 Danilo Dolci
1970 Fellowship of Reconciliation/International FOR
1971 Cesar Chavez
1972 U Thant
1973 Helder Camara
1974 Cesar Chavez/Helder Camara
1975 Cesar Chavez/Helder Camara
1976 Committee for Cooperation for Peace in Chile
1977 No nomination
1978 Stephen Biko (withdrawn since award not made posthumously)
1979 Ham Sok Han
1980 Danilo Dolci
1981 Bishop Tutu
1982 Bishop Tutu
1983 General Matityahu Peled/Dr. Isam Sartawi
1984 United Nations Law of the Sea
1985 Ham Sok Han
1986 Brian Urquhart - UN Undersecretary for Political Affairs
1987 Brian Urquhart
1988 Inga Thorsson ( Sweden )/Gro Brundtland ( Norway )
1989 Biship Antonio Y. Fortich
1990 Elise Boulding
1991 Jimmy Carter
1992 Moon Ik-Hwan ( Korea )
1993 Christian Frederick Beyers Naude (Afrikaner clergyman)
1994 Sulak Sivaraksa ( Thailand )
1995 Ibrahim Rugova
1996 Maha Ghosananda
1997 Jimmy Carter
1998 Bishop Don Samuel Ruiz Garcia
1999 Sister Helen Prejean
2000 Kathleen Kelly and Denis Halliday
2001 Peace Brigades International
2002 Community of St Egidio in Rome
2003 Women in Black
2004 Zachie Achmat and The South African Treatment Action Center
2005 Nihon Hidankyo (an organization of Hibakusha)
2006 Ghassan Andoni and Jeff Halper
2007 The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó and the Asociación de Cabildos Indígenas del Norte del Cauca (ACIN)
2008 Aminatou Haidar
2009 Gene Sharp
2010 Father Roy Bourgeois and School of the Americas Watch
2011 Nihon Hidankyo
2012 Hawa Abdi of Somalia
2013 Gene Sharp
2014 Ekta Parishad and the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
2015 Victor Ochen
2017 Christian Peacemaker Teams
2019 Nominee asked to remain anonymous
2021 Mwatana for Human Rights and Campaign Againt Arms Trade
2022 Quaker group nominates Kenyan Dr. Miriam Were for Nobel Peace Prize