2002 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2002 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Jimmy Carter. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 11 October 2002.

The citation

The citation reads: "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development".

The laureate

Jimmy Carter was born in 1924 in Plains, the United States.

Why it matters

The former American president has worked for peace and human rights around the world since leaving office in 1981, through the Carter Center. As president he brought Egypt and Israel together in the Camp David Accords of 1978.

The prize

The prize is worth 10 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.