Charles Albert Gobat was a Swiss lawyer, politician, and educational administrator. He received the 1902 Noble Peace Prize jointly with Elie Ducommun, his colleague at Permanent International Peace Bureau.

Anna Politkovskaya was a Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist. She was born in 1958 in New York and killed in 2006 in Moscow. She studied journalism at Moscow State University and worked as a reporter for Izvestiya Newspaper from 1982-1993.

Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the Unites States of America, naturalist and writer. He was born in a Dutch-American family in 1858 in New York. He finished his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University. He was elected to the Assembly of New York State from 1882 to 1884.

Leymah Gbowee is a Liberian peace and women’s rights activist. She was a cowinner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. She was born in 1972 in central Liberia. She has completed associate of arts in social work in 2001 from Mother Patern College of Health Sciences in Liberia and her master’s degree in Conflict Transformation in 2007 at Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia.

William Randal Cremer was a member of British parliament, pacifist and advocate for international arbitration. He was the first individual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1903.

Laila Haidari is a social worker and human rights activist from Afghanistan. She is the founder of Mother’s Camp in Kabul, Afghanistan. Laila is known as the “mother of thousands of children” due to her works helping the drug addicted people in Kabul.

Elie Ducommun was a Swiss peace activist, journalist, eloquent lecturer and the Nobel Peace Prize winner. He was born in 1833 in Geneva and passed away in 1906 in Bern, Switzerland. After completing his early studies, he started working as a tutor for a family in Saxony for three years. Then he returned to Geneva and taught in a public school for a while.

Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist. In August 2018, Thunberg, a ninth grad student, started a protest outside the Swedish parliament holding a sign “Skolstrejk för klimatet" (School Strike fort the climate). She urged the parliament to take immediate action to protect the environment. Reducing carbon missions per the Paris Agreement was one of her demands. Since then, she has become known as a young environmental activist around the world. Thunberg has said that she has been inspired by young American activists who organized the ‘March for Our Lives’ demonstration.

Henry Dunant was a Swiss businessman, writer, social activist, and the first Nobel Peace Prize (1901) winner. He was born in Geneva in 1828 and died 1910. His book “A Memory of Solferino” led to the creation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. He was engaged with religious activities and social work during his young ages.

Umberto Angelucci is an Italian peace activist and the director of Universal Peace Federation (UPF) – Middle East. Mr. Angelucci, along with his wife Marilyn Angelucci, have devoted several decades of their lives promoting peace in different parts of the world and they have been tirelessly mobilizing people for peace.

Liu Xiaobo was a Chinese writer, and political and human rights activist. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize due to “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China”.

“Finding Peace in this turbulent world is not a difficult task. Treat everyone with respect and compassion and do your best to make their lives a bit easier. Everyone could one day find themselves in need of help and support and even a small gesture can make a difference. In short – treat everyone as you would wish to be treated in the same situation.”

Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist. She has been awarded several honorary doctorates and awards including the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her works for promoting democracy and human rights – particularly women and children’s rights.

Erasmus was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, theologian, teacher and Catholic priest. He was born in 1466 (there are different narratives about his birthday) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and died in 1536 in Basel, Switzerland.

Wangari Muta Maathai was the first African woman who received Noble Peace Prize in 2004 and the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree. She was born in Nyeri of Kenya in 1940 and died in 2011. She got her bachelor’s degree in Biological Science from Mount St. Scholastica College, Master of Science from the University of Pittsburgh and she did her doctoral studies in Germany and Nairobi University.

Srdja Popovic is a political activist from Serbia, born in Belgrade in 1973. Popovic was one of the founders of the nonviolent student movement of Otpor that dismissed Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosovic.

Lydia Cacho is a Mexican journalist and writer committed to social causes; mainly on the subject of protection of human rights, as well as the rights of women and girls. Her life has been threatened by investigating an international network of pedophiles and her example of struggle as well has served to make known the vulnerable situation that journalists live in Mexico.