Pakistan, Oct. 5 -- Of the 105 Nobel Peace Prizes awarded since 1901, only eight have recognised individuals for ending active wars - a strikingly small fraction of the prize's storied legacy. Among these luminaries stand Theodore Roosevelt, who mediated peace between Russia and Japan; Woodrow Wilson, who helped draft the treaty that ended World War I; and Leon Bourgeois, who advanced the League of Nations' founding principles to forestall renewed hostilities.

Others include Austen Chamberlain and Charles Dawes for crafting the Dawes Plan, which stabilised postwar Europe; Henry Kissinger, whose negotiations helped secure a Vietnam ceasefire; Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, who formally ended hostilities between Egypt and Israel; and John...