This document lists the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize from 2006 to 2016. It provides the name of the recipient individual or organization each year, and a brief description of 3-4 words for the reason they received the prize. Recipients include Muhammad Yunus, Al Gore, Martti Ahtisaari, Barack Obama, Liu Xiaobo, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman, the European Union, the OPCW, Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai, the National Dialogue Quartet, and Juan Manuel Santos.

2. The Nobel Peace Prize 2006
Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank
"for their efforts to create economic and
social development from below“

3. The Nobel Peace Prize 2007
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
"for their efforts to build up and disseminate
greater knowledge about man-made climate
change, and to lay the foundations for the
measures that are needed to counteract such
change“

4. The Nobel Peace Prize 2008
Martti Ahtisaari
"for his important efforts, on several
continents and over more than three
decades, to resolve international conflicts"

5. The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
Barack H. Obama
"for his extraordinary efforts to
strengthen international diplomacy
and cooperation between peoples"

6. The Nobel Peace Prize 2010
Liu Xiaobo
"for his long and non-violent struggle
for fundamental human rights in
China"

7. The Nobel Peace Prize 2011
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah
Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman
"for their non-violent struggle for the safety
of women and for women's rights to full
participation in peace-building work"

8. The Nobel Peace Prize 2012
European Union (EU)
"for over six decades contributed to the
advancement of peace and reconciliation,
democracy and human rights in Europe"

9. The Nobel Peace Prize 2013
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons (OPCW)
"for its extensive efforts to eliminate
chemical weapons"

10. The Nobel Peace Prize 2014
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
"for their struggle against the suppression
of children and young people and for the
right of all children to education"

11. The Nobel Peace Prize 2015
National Dialogue Quartet
"for its decisive contribution to the
building of a pluralistic democracy in
Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine
Revolution of 2011"

12. The Nobel Peace Prize 2016
Juan Manuel Santos
"for his resolute efforts to bring the
country's more than 50-year-long civil war
to an end"