On October 7, 2016 (September 7, 2016 in the lunar calendar), Colombia President Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos Colombia President Santos October 7, 2016 Norway Nobel Committee announced that it will award the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize to Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos in recognition of his contribution to ending Colombia's civil war. The civil war that lasted for more than 50 years has killed at least 220,000 Colombia people and displaced 6 million people. Juan Manuel Santos last month reached a peace agreement with Rodrigo Londono, leader of the rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The agreement, reached after four years of negotiations, aims to end the country's fifty-two-year civil war. However, on the 2nd of this month, a referendum in Colombia rejected the peace agreement, with the number of opposition slightly exceeding the number of support votes. But Santos vowed: "I will not give up and I will continue to fight for peace until my last day as president." The 376 nominations for this year's Nobel Peace Prize include 228 individuals and 148 organizations. The Nobel Committee does not announce the nomination list to the public. Colombia President Santos Santos was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1951. He is 65 years old and has served as the country's president since 2010. Santos comes from the wealthiest and most influential family in Colombia. He served in the military and then studied at the University of Kansas and the London School of Economics. In 1981, he received a master's degree in public administration from Harvard University. He became the first Minister of Foreign Trade of Colombia in 1991, became Minister of Finance in 2000, served as Minister of Defense of the country from 2006 to 2009, became President in 2010, and was re-elected in 2014. How much do you know about the Nobel Peace Prize? Let's take a look at some facts about the Nobel Peace Prize. How many times have the Nobel Peace Prize been awarded? Since 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 96 times, and 19 times have not been awarded. The years are: 1014-1916, 1918, 1923, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1939-1943, 1948, 1955-1956, 1966-1967 and 1972. The reason why no one won the Peace Prize in these years is because the Nobel Foundation's charter stipulates: "If the job for which the candidate is candidate does not have the importance mentioned in the first paragraph, the prize must be retained until the following year." If the bonus cannot be awarded in the following year, the bonus must be deposited into the foundation's special fund. During the First and Second World Wars, Nobel Prizes were rarely awarded. How many times have the Nobel Peace Prize been shared by one person or shared by multiple people? The 65 Peace Awards are exclusive to one person. The 29 Peace Awards were shared by the two. The two Peace Awards were shared by three people. They were the 1994 and 2011 Nobel Peace Prizes respectively. How many people or organizations have won the Nobel Peace Prize? A total of 129 individuals or organizations have won the Nobel Peace Prize, of which 103 individuals have won and 26 groups and organizations have won. Since the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has won three awards and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has won two awards, a total of 103 individuals and 23 organizations have won the Nobel Peace Prize. The average age of Peace Prize winners? 1901-2015 During 1999, the average age of Nobel Peace Prize winners was 61 years old. The youngest Peace Prize winner? Malala Yousafzai The youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner to date is Malala Yousafzai. In 2014, 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest recipient of the award. The oldest winner? The oldest recipient of the Joseph Rotblatt Nobel Peace Prize is Joseph Rotblatt, who was 87 years old when he received the prize in 1995. How many women have won the Nobel Peace Prize? Of the 103 individuals who received the Peace Award, 16 were women. The first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize was Berta von Suttner, who was awarded in 1905 for her contribution to the peace movement. The other 14 women who won the award were: Berta von Suttner, Jane Adams, Emily Balch, Betty Williams, Merid Corrigan, Mother Teresa, Alva Midar, Aung San Suu Kyi, Rigoveta Menchu Toom, Jody Williams, Shirlin Aibadi, Wangari Maathai, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leyman Gubovi, Tawaku Kaman, Malala Yousafzai. Individuals or organizations that have won the Nobel Peace Prize many times? The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) won three awards (1917, 1944, 1963), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) won two awards (1954, 1981). In addition, Henry Dunant, founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. Linus Pauling won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954 and 1962. A Nobel Peace Prize winner refused to accept the award. In 1973, Vietnam politician Le Duc Tho and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace agreement. Le Duc Tho refused to accept the Nobel Prize because he and Henry Kissinger signed a ceasefire agreement that year, but the fighting continued in Vietnam until two years later. The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously? One recipient who was posthumously awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was former United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld. In 1961, one month after Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash and in line of duty, the Nobel Committee of the Norway Parliament awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize. After 1974, the Nobel Foundation's charter stipulated: "The Nobel Prize cannot be awarded posthumously unless the winner died after the Nobel Prize was announced." Surprising Nobel Peace Prize winner? Many people thought Churchill would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. In fact, Churchill was nominated for both the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Peace Prize. 2014 was the year with the largest number of Nobel Prize candidates. Every year, the Norway Nobel Committee sends thousands of letters inviting qualified people to submit their Nobel Peace Prize candidates. The names of the nominees cannot be disclosed until 50 years later, but the Nobel Peace Prize Committee publishes the number of nominees every year. In 2014, the Norway Nobel Committee confirmed that a total of 278 different individuals or organizations had been effectively nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize that year. Compared with 259 candidates in 2013, 2014 was the largest number of candidates in the history of the Nobel Prize. Candidates who were nominated but did not win in the end? The picture shows Gandhi in 1947, most famous than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mahatma Gandhi. Stalin was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 and 1948 for his contribution to ending World War II. Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most powerful symbols of the "non-violent" struggle of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and 1948, but failed to win the prize. In 1948, the year of Gandhi's death, the Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded because there were no suitable and living candidates. Many years later, the Nobel Committee publicly expressed regret. Adolf Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939. To promote "fraternity among nations" and global disarmament, the Nazi dictator was nominated in 1939 by E.G.C. Brandt, a member of the Swedish Parliament. Brandt later withdrew the nomination, calling it ironic. Other famous candidates for the Peace Prize include U.S. President Roosevelt, Argentine "Madame Peron" Eva Peron, Italian dictator Mussolini, Russian writer Lev Tolstoy, founder of the Olympic Movement, Coubertin, Tsar Nicholas II, etc. Why does the Nobel Peace Prize require a Norway Nobel Committee? Except for the Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded in Oslo, Norway, all other Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize, was a Swedish cosmopolitan. In his will, he announced that the Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded by a committee in Norway. During the lifetime of Alfred Nobel, Norway and Sweden were ruled by the same monarch until 1905, when Norway became an independent kingdom. What does the Nobel Peace Prize medal look like? The Nobel Peace Prize medal was designed by Norway sculptor Gustav Vigland. The gesture of Alfred Nobel displayed on the medal is slightly different from the medals of other awards. Nobel Peace Prize Medal