The ICAN organization was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize , on 6 October 2017 . The Nobel Peace Prize Press Statement reads : " for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons ... It is the firm conviction of the Norwegian Nobel Committee that ICAN , more than anyone else , has in the past year given the efforts to achieve a world without nuclear weapons a new direction and new vigour "
2017 Nobel Peace Prize
2017 Nobel Peace Prize
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons