Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Tunisian democracy group won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contributions to the first and most successful Arab Spring movement.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy" in the North African country following its 2011 revolution.

"It established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war," the committee said in its citation.

The prize is a huge victory for small Tunisia, whose young and still shaky democracy suffered two extremist attacks this year that killed 60 people and devastated the tourism industry.

The National Dialogue Quartet is made up of four key organizations in Tunisian civil society: the Tunisian General Labour Union; the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts; the Tunisian Human Rights League; and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers.

"The Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 is awarded to this Quartet, not to the four individual organizations as such," the committee said.

There were 273 candidates nominated for the 2015 peace prize, five fewer than in 2014.

The award capped a week of Nobel Prize announcements, with the winners of the medicine, physics, chemistry and literature awards presented earlier in Stockholm.

The economics award — not an original Nobel Prize but created in 1968 — will be announced on Monday.


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-10-09

I am shocked, given that the winner "established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war", using that criteria I would have thought it would have gone to the PM General.

So, now days you get the Noble prize for starting a revolution that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dead, destruction and mayhem on all the Arab counters involved in that ' Arab spring " go tell that to the dead and homeless that have resulted from that movement, Another 'Arab spring " like that, and there will be no Arabs...

As usual, a political choice. The prize lost in legitimacy long time ago, when they gave it to Kissinger.

Well, it could have been worse. They could have given it to Merkel!

Well last time went to Obama as he oversaw two wars. These awards have become an insult to the intelligence.

Well, it could have been worse. They could have given it to Merkel!

Or to the three presidents and one kanzlerin from the Minsk group on Ukraine.

Maybe next year...

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An African- Muslim country with a more democratic government than Buddhist-led Thailand.

Who would have thought?