Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet Wins 2015 Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet for its work post Jasmine Revolution of 2011

Kucci Kullmann Five, chairman of Norwegian Nobel Committee announcing the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo: AP)

Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet won the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its “decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011”, the Nobel Committee said.

The prize was announced by the chairman of Norwegian Nobel Committee, Kucci Kullmann Five at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway.

The Quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 when the democratisation process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest.
— Norwegian Nobel Committee Statement

The Nobel Peace Prize, worth eight million Swedish crowns ($972,000), will be presented in Oslo on December 10.

(With inputs from Reuters.)