Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet wins 2015 Nobel Peace Prize

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize went to the National Dialogue Quartet, a Tunisian democracy group.

Tunisia’s revolution is considered to have been the most successful, with a range of political and social forces coming together to create a constitution, legislature and democratic institutions.

The Nobel panel said the award to the National Dialogue Quartet was intended as an “encouragement to the Tunisian people” and an inspiration for others, particularly in the turbulent Middle East. “Other Arab countries that experienced uprisings in 2011 have been less fortunate than Tunisia, in part because their civil societies have been marginalised”, it added.

The quartet did not figure in the favorites for the Nobel Prize.

Meanwhile, the head of the United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, called the award “a tribute” to all civil society groups which fight for democracy and the rule of law. So people, they trust in what was written by the quartet.

“The prize came at the right time because our country is still threatened by different security challenges”, Tunisian General Labour Union Secretary General Houcine Abassi was quoted by local Radio Mosaique FM as saying.

Above all else, this is a victory not only for Tunisia but for the Arab world.

“It’s a message to all parties present in certain political conflicts, to tell them that everything can be settled with dialogue and all can be settled in a climate of peace”.

Marks hopes that the Nobel Peace Prize puts Tunisia back on the worldwide community’s radar.

Ooyvind Stenersen, a Nobel historian, described the decision as “a bit bewildering”. “But it was a bit bewildering”. “The proposed new system sends a clear signal that serious corruption will be tolerated and that kleptocrats can expect to be gently treated”, she said.

“We can not win the war we are fighting against terrorism unless we are all in it together”, said the first post-uprising president, elected at the end of 2014.

In March, Islamist gunmen killed 21 tourists at the Bardo Museum in Tunis, and 38 foreigners were killed in an assault on a Sousse beach hotel in June.

Tunisia is caught up in a growing battle against Islamist militants who have carried out two major attacks this year and in 2013 assassinated two opposition leaders.

Tunisia, a former French colony that achieved independence in 1956, has been the crucible of momentous change since the street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire on December 17, 2010, spurring enormous demonstrations.

The revolution electrified the Arab world, and in rapid succession pro-democracy demonstrations broke out across the region, ultimately bringing down the rulers of Egypt and Libya and plunging Syria into civil war. So you can follow us, I mean, and you can adopt this experience in your country.

The leaders of a group of survivors from the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki expressed disappointment Friday after being overlooked for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1901, five years after his death, a committee in Norway picked Switzerland’s Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, and Frederic Passy, the French economist who believed free trade among nations promoted peace, as the first recipients of the awards.

Schemm reported from Addis, Ababa, Ethiopia, Ritter and Malin Rising from Stockholm.