2014 Nobel Peace Prize 2014 Nobel Peace Prize The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". Satyarthi is from India, the seventh person from his country to win a Nobel Prize and the second to win the 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,
Malala Yousafzai A Levels; in August 2017, she was accepted to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). Reception of Yousafzai in Pakistan is mostly negative. Yousafzai's opposition to Taliban policy makes her unpopular among Taliban sympathisers. A "Dawn" columnist alleges that she is scapegoated by the failing state government, and a journalist in "The Nation" wrote that Yousafzai is hated by "overzealous patriots" who are keen to deny oppression of women in the country. Yousafzai's statements conflict with the view that militancy in Pakistan is a result of Western interference, and conservatives and Islamic fundamentalists describe her ideology as "anti-Pakistan" and "anti-Islam".