Nobel Peace Prize For Tunisian Democracy Group

The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet - a democracy group - has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for "its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy," the Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced. The group of four organisations established "an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war," the Committee said on Friday, referring to the period following Tunisia's 2011 revolution. The National Dialogue Quartet is made up of four key organisations 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 jury cited the group for "its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011".

"The Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 is awarded to this Quartet, not to the four individual organisations as such," the committee said. The laureates will receive their prizes at a ceremony in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of prize creator Alfred Nobel, a Swedish philanthropist and scientist.

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