2013 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 11 October 2013.

The citation

The citation reads: "for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons".

The laureate

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was founded in 1997.

Why it matters

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague, oversees the treaty banning chemical weapons. It is currently overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.

The prize

The prize is worth 8 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.