International Committee of the Red Cross

Based in Geneva, Switzerland

Nobel Prize in Peace, 1917International

Awarded for

Caring for wounded soldiers and prisoners of war during the First World War

The story behind the prize

During the First World War the ICRC set up the International Prisoners-of-War Agency in Geneva, which tracked millions of prisoners and passed messages to their families. It also visited prisoner-of-war camps to check on conditions.

About

Humanitarian organization founded in Geneva in 1863 to protect victims of war.

Exam facts

Only Peace Prize awarded during the First World War
Has won the Peace Prize three times: 1917, 1944 and 1963 (shared with the League of Red Cross Societies)