Tunisian mediators win 2015 Nobel Peace Prize

October 09, 2015 14:58

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet.

Announcing the award the committee says the Quartet is honoured for its work in helping ensure Tunisia's post-Arab Spring direction was broadly peaceful and democratic. It is directly comparable to the peace conferences mentioned by Alfred Nobel in his will, they add.

Tunisia's National Dialogue, established in October 2013, quickly became an essential institution for resolving differences, without substituting for the work of the elected National Constituent Assembly.

The Dialogue was developed by a quartet of civil society organizations and was quickly accepted by Tunisia's political parties as a mechanism for exiting the political crisis hitting the country in 2013.

After realizing major achievements in its first months of work, however, including the ratification of the new constitution, the formation of a caretaker government and the election of an Electoral Commission, is there still a role for the Dialogue in Tunisia's political system?

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