Spent five years on mine ban

Jody Williams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997, together with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), for their work to ban and remove anti-personnel mines. Anti-personnel mines are intended to target soldiers in war, but unexploded and buried mines also affect civilians after the war is over. Williams and the ICBL achieved the goal of an international ban on anti-personnel landmines in 1997, five years after the campaign began in 1992. The Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Mines has now been ratified by 164 countries.