2017 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 6 October 2017.

The citation

The citation reads: "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons".

The laureate

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons was founded in 2007.

Why it matters

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a coalition of campaign groups, played a leading role in securing a United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons, agreed in July.

The prize

The prize is worth 9 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.