The economics award – not an original Nobel Prize but created in 1968 – will be announced on Monday.
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“The National Dialogue Quartet must be given much of the credit for this achievement and for ensuring that the benefits of the Jasmine Revolution have not been lost”, the statement added.
Partly because the group’s accomplishments, on their own merits, deserve this for their 2013 road map.
But this is also about the Nobel Committee trying to draw the world’s attention to what the quartet represents, to hold it up as a model for the rest of the globe to follow.
Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.
“They saw the need to act as one”, the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said.
Jomaa says the process of transition to a new system continues.
Njoelstad said the change sends an important message about the independence of the panel to China.
But the Norwegian Nobel Committee chose a group over a single person, a recognition that leadership in peacemaking is often a collaborative effort rather than the work of a single person.
A Tunisian activist group called the National Dialogue Quartet just won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2015.
“This recognition belongs to all those who gave birth to the Arab Spring and are striving to safeguard the sacrifices of so many”, he said.
Ban says “this tribute highlights that lasting progress requires an inclusive process”.
The Arab Spring began in Tunisia in late 2010, when Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor who was the victim of endless harassment from local government officials, set himself on fire, triggering an uprising and soon a revolution. “Tunisia has managed to avoid the disappointment and dashed hopes that have tragically emerged elsewhere”.
Kullmann Five, the committee chairwoman, noted there was also good news Friday from Libya, where a United Nations envoy proposed a national unity government worked out with rival factions after months of hard talks. “The global community now needs to step up and support the Tunisian government and the Tunisian people”.
Syria, for example, has become a killing field, a maelstrom of carnage and ideological poison that is now spilling into many other countries.
– French President Francois Hollande said the prize “rewards the success of the democratic transition in Tunisia”.
I this October 13, 2014 file picture members of the quartet during a meeting in Tunis, Tunisia. In November 2013, after another walkout by the parties, he said “we do not believe in failure because the dialogue has to succeed – it is our destiny”. Many feared Tunisia would follow Egypt’s path to chaos.
“Tunisia… faces significant political challenges when it comes to the political arena, the economic arena and the security side”.
Houcine Abassi, the leader of the Tunisian General Labour Union, told The Associated Press he was “overwhelmed” by the award.
The award capped a week of Nobel Prize announcements, with the winners of the medicine, physics, chemistry and literature awards presented earlier in Stockholm. She had been nominated before the February 1 deadline for her role in trying to broker peace between Russian Federation and Ukraine. The favourites to win this year’s peace price had been Pope Francis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif.
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“Going to war is not in the best interest of the people”.
