The
Norwegian Nobel Committee each year awards the
Nobel Peace Prize (Norwegian and ) "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the 1895
will of
Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in
chemistry,
physics,
literature, peace, and
physiology or medicine. As dictated by Nobel's will, the award is administered by the
Norwegian Nobel Committee and awarded by a committee of five people elected by the
Parliament of Norway. The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901 to
Frédéric Passy and
Henry Dunant; the prize was most recently awarded to the
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet in 2015. Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma, and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years. In 1901, Passy and Dunant shared a Prize of 150,782
Swedish kronor, which was equal to 7,731,004 kronor in 2008. The Peace Prize is presented annually in
Oslo, in the presence of the
King of Norway, on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death, and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in
Stockholm. Unlike the other prizes, the Peace Prize is occasionally awarded to an organisation (such as the
International Committee of the Red Cross, a three-time recipient) rather than an individual.