Peace Prize choice an example for all — United Nations chief

The quartet has been instrumental in this process.

Partly because the group’s accomplishments, on their own merits, deserve this for their 2013 road map.

Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

He adds: “It’s through dialogue, it’s through consensus, and that’s the big lesson”.

“We will continue our work”, she said.

The United Nations secretary-general is praising this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners and the Tunisian people. We all know how the Arab spring started and what the aim of it was.

Despite Tunisia’s political progress, the country has not managed to establish total security. The Arab Spring began with great hopes that were soon replaced with grave doubts.

– British Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted that the mediators deserved the prize for “helping make Tunisia a beacon of hope for the region”.

Thanks to the work of the National Dialogue Quartet, the North African nation a year ago adopted a new constitution and democratically elected a president, Beji Caid Essebsi, for the first time. “I think that’s the most important message”. Many feared Tunisia would follow Egypt’s path to chaos. The pair drew in the Tunisian Human Rights League and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers.

With a membership of about half a million and a network of operations across the country, it is capable of organising large protests and strikes in response to social grievances. But a collective of groups working toward peace and democracy may be even more powerful. “This is in contrast with the politics of much of the rest of the region”. The committee noted that the prize was awarded to the Quartet, which was formed in the summer of 2013, rather than to the four individual organizations.

“It’s a prize that crowns more than two years of efforts deployed by the quartet when the country was in danger on all fronts”, when political tensions were shaking the country and “stability was threatened”, he said. Walesa led the Solidarity freedom movement in the 1980s that brought about the ouster of communism.

“It is a very good prize that tries to get into the heart of the conflict in the Muslim world”, said Oeyvind Stenersen, a Nobel historian. As in other Mideast dictatorships, labor unions in Tunisia had a few grassroots organizing power but were still tolerated by the regime. The country had been on the verge of catastrophe, and the quartet played a crucial role in saving it.

Hussein Abassi, head of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), leaves his office in Tunis Tunisia, October 9, 2015. This led to the country achieving democracy.

Tourists and visitors are evacuated from the Bardo Museum in Tunis on March 18.

The prize comes the day after unidentified assailants shot repeatedly at a lawmaker and a prominent sports magnate in the Tunisian city of Sousse, which depends heavily on tourism.

The organization has worked with and spoken out to defend the rights of three of the four Quartet’s members, which have for decades been at the forefront of the fight to defend the human rights of Tunisians.

The award was given for the quartet’s “decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011”, the Nobel panel said.

Annual prizes for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, peace and literature were established in the will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite who died in 1896, and the first prizes were handed out in 1901. Under Merkel, Germany has shown compassion towards the influx of refugees, allowing hundreds of thousands to settle in the country.

The decision came as a surprise to many, with speculation having focused on Europe’s migrant crisis or the Iran-US nuclear deal in July.