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The Sharkansky Peace Prize©

A smarter alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize

Year Nobel Laureate Sharkansky Laureate Sharkansky Laureate's Achievement
2004 Wangari Maathai Coalition of the Willing: George W Bush, Iyad Allawi, Tony Blair, John Howard, Aleksander Kwasniewski Jose Maria Aznar, Silvio Berlusconi and the leaders of the other nations that joined in the liberation of Iraq Reconstruction, democratization of Iraq
2003 Shirin Ebadi

Paul Wolfowitz
Tommy Franks
Paul Bremer

Liberation of Iraq
2002 Jimmy Carter Donald Rumsfeld
Condoleezza Rice
Defeat of Taliban; realignment of US national security priorities
2001 United Nations
Kofi Annan
George W Bush
Rudy Giuliani
Passengers of flight 93
New York City Police and Fire Departments
response to attacks of September 11
1999 Medecins Sans Frontieres Bill Clinton Removing Slobodan Milosevic from power
1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines
Jody Williams
Uzi Gal Inventor of the Uzi submachine gun
1996 Carlos Belo
Jose Ramos-Horta
Carlos Belo
Jose Ramos-Horta
1995 Joseph Rotblat
Pugwash Conferences
Yitzhak Rabin
King Hussein
Israel-Jordan peace treaty
1994 Yasser Arafat
Shimon Peres
Yitzhak Rabin
Salman Rushdie Standing up for literary freedom
1993 Nelson Mandela
Willem de Klerk
Aung San Suu Kyi
1992 Rigoberta Menchu Tum Boris Yeltsin
Ronald Reagan
Ending the Soviet Union
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi George Bush Removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev Vaclav Havel Liberating Czechoslovakia from Communism
1989 Dalai Lama Dalai Lama
1986 Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Edward Teller Appropriate nuclear deterrence
1983 Lech Walesa Lech Walesa  
1982 Alva Myrdal
Alfonso Garcia Robles
Margaret Thatcher Restoring freedom to the Falklands
1981 UN High Commission for Refugees Menachem Begin Destroying Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel World Health Organization Eradication of smallpox
1979 Mother Teresa Planned Parenthood Family planning as a defense against overpopulation and poverty
1978 Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin
1976 Betty Williams
Mairead Corrigan
Jonathan Netanyahu Freeing hostages in raid at Entebbe airport
1975 Andrei Sakharov Andrei Sakharov
1970 Norman Borlaug Norman Borlaug
1969 International Labor Organization Jan Palach Czech student who immolated himself to protest the Soviet invasion
1967 no prize awarded Levi Eshkol
Moshe Dayan
Yitzhak Rabin
Winning the Six-day War, preserving Israel's existence
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King, Jr.
1963 International Committee of the Red Cross John F. Kennedy Visit to, statement of solidarity with West Berlin
1962 Linus Pauling Isser Harel
Gideon Hausner
Capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann
1957 Lester Bowles Pearson Dwight Eisenhower Sending in the troops to enforce court order to integrate Little Rock schools
1948 no prize awarded

United States Air Force,
Royal Air Force

Berlin Airlift
1946 Emily Greene Balch
John Raleigh Mott
Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal Bringing Nazi criminals to justice
1945 Cordell Hull Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
Ending World War II
1944 International Committee of Red Cross Dwight Eisenhower Normandy Invasion
1943 no prize awarded Mordecai Anielewicz Warsaw Ghetto uprising
1942 no prize awarded General Montgomery;
Admiral Nimitz
Victory at El Alamein;
Victory at Midway
1941 no prize awarded Franklin Roosevelt;
General Zhukov and Red Army
Lend-Lease Act;
Halting German advance in Russia
1940 no prize awarded Winston Churchill
Royal Air Force
Battle of Britain

Acknowledgements: Haggai Elitzur for several nominations

I intend to fill in this list and award the prize retroactively for every year going back to 1901. Please e-mail me your nominations, or post your nomination in the comments section of my blog, here

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