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{{Infobox award
| name = [[File:Nobel prize medal.svg|20px]] The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
| subheader = <span style="font-size:120%;">'''Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai'''</span>
| awarded_for =
| presenter = [[Norwegian Nobel Committee]]
| year = 1901
| website = {{oweb|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/summary/}}
| holder_label = 2014 laureate
| holder =
| image = [[File:Kailash Satyarthi March 2015.jpg|120px]][[File:Malala Yousafzai at Girl Summit 2014.jpg|132px]]
| caption = '''''[[Kailash Satyarthi|Satyarthi]] (left) and [[Malala Yousafzai|Yousafzai]] (right)''' '''"for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."'''''
| host =
| date = {{plainlist|
* 10 October 2014 (announcement by [[Thorbjørn Jagland]])
* 10 December 2014 <br>(ceremony)
}}
| location = [[Oslo]], Norway
| reward = 8 million [[Swedish krona|SEK]] ([[United States dollar|$]]1.25M, [[Euro|€]]0.9M)
| previous = [[2013 Nobel Peace Prize|2013]]
| main = [[Nobel Peace Prize]]
| next = [[2015 Nobel Peace Prize|2015]]
}}

The '''2014 Nobel Peace Prize''' was shared, in two equal parts, between [[Kailash Satyarthi]] (b. 1954) and [[Malala Yousafzai]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace prize|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2014/oct/10/nobel-peace-prize-2014-live-coverage|work=The Guardian|date=10 October 2014}}</ref> (b. 1997) "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Peace Prize 2014|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/|website=Nobelprize.org|publisher=Nobel Prize Committee}}</ref>
Satyarthi is from India, the seventh person from his country to win a [[Nobel Prize]] and the second to win the [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace Prize]] after [[Mother Teresa]], while Yousafzai is a Muslim from Pakistan, the second Nobel Prize winner from her country after [[Abdus Salam]], the forty-seventh woman to win the Nobel Prize, and at the age of 17 years, the youngest winner of a Nobel Prize in any field.

== Motivation ==
In a press release, the Committee indicated that it had chosen the combination of a [[Hindu]] and a [[Muslim]], and of an [[India]]n and a [[Pakistani]], on purpose, because they "join in a common struggle for education and against extremism". They stressed that "fraternity between nations" was one of the original criteria stipulated by [[Alfred Nobel]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2014/press.html|publisher=Nobel Prize Committee}}</ref>

The usage of child labour and discrimination against [[female education]] was the citation for the award. As of 2014 it is reckoned 168 million children are used for child labour, 60 million in India alone. This was mentioned by Thorbjørn Jagland in his handover ceremony speech.

== Nominations ==
The Nobel Prize Committee announced that it had received a record number of 278 different nominations for the Peace Prize, up from 259 in 2013. 47 of these nominations were for organizations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nomination and Selection of Peace Prize Laureates|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/|publisher=Nobel Prize Committee}}</ref>

== Favourites ==
Prior to the announcement, many news media speculated about who would win this year, providing lists of favourites. Often cited were [[Pope Francis]],<ref name=Murray>{{cite news|last1=Murray|first1=Rheana|title=Home> International 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Contenders|url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/2014-nobel-peace-prize-contenders/story?id=26083056|publisher=ABC Australia|date=9 October 2014}}</ref><ref name=Karimi>{{cite news|last1=Karimi|first1=Faith|title=Nobel Peace Prize: And the winner could be ...|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/09/world/europe/nobel-peace-prize-predictions/index.html|publisher=CNN|date=10 October 2014}}</ref><ref name=Adam>{{cite news|last1=Adam|first1=Karla|title=Oddsmakers have already picked a winner for the Nobel Peace Prize|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/10/09/bettors-have-already-picked-a-winner-for-the-nobel-peace-prize/|newspaper=Washington Post|date=9 October 2014}}</ref> [[Ban Ki-moon]],<ref name=Karimi/> [[Chelsea Manning]],<ref name=Murray/> [[Denis Mukwege]],<ref name=Karimi/><ref name=Murray/><ref name=Adam/> [[Edward Snowden]],<ref name=Karimi/><ref name=Murray/><ref name=Adam/> [[José Mujica]],<ref name=Karimi/> the ''[[Novaya Gazeta]]'' newspaper,<ref name=Karimi/><ref name=Adam/> and the so-called [[Japanese people who conserve Article 9]],<ref name=Karimi/><ref name=Adam/> together with the eventual winner Malala Yousafzai.<ref name=Murray/><ref name=Karimi/><ref name=Adam/> The other winner, Kailash Satyarthi, was not among the commonly cited favourites.

== See also ==
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* [[Child labour]]
* [[Child labour in India]]
* [[Child labour in Pakistan]]
* [[Education in Pakistan]]
* [[List of female Nobel laureates]]
* [[Nobel laureates of India]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize Concert#2014|Nobel Peace Prize Concert § 2014]]
* [[Terrorism in Pakistan]]
{{div col end}}

== References ==
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[[Category:2014 awards|Nobel Peace Prize]]
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[[Category:October 2014 in Europe]]
[[Category:Thorbjørn Jagland]]

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