The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the six Nobel prizes that awarded each year in the name of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. Looks like was kind of upset that he had invented something that killed so many people, so he made up this prize to compensate for it. It is awarded each year to someone who has made great efforts for human rights and done so peacefully. Winners have included Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, (That one just may have been a mistake) Theodore Roosevelt, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and Barack Obama.