2015 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (nobelprize.org)

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2015 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet (nobelprize.org)

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 9, 2015 @12:52AM from the changing-a-nation dept.

Dave Knott writes: 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. Tunisian protesters sparked uprisings across the Arab world in 2011 that overthrew dictators and upset the status quo. Tunisia is the only country in the region to painstakingly build a democracy, involving a range of political and social forces in dialogue to create a constitution, legislature and democratic institutions. 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.

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Another Peace Prize to a Muslim? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 01:01 · Score: -1

First Obama, then Malaria, then these jokers?
Oh right, Islam is the religion of peace. Me thinks someone is trying too hard.
1. Re:Another Peace Prize to a Muslim? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 01:58 · Score: 1
  
  You are hereby awarded the Nobel TWAT OF THE YEAR award
2. Re:Another Peace Prize to a Muslim? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 02:00 · Score: 0, Insightful
  
  Religion? Peace? These words really don't belong near each other. Don't give me that crap where you accuse dead people from centuries ago, and don't give me the crap that religious people today are any more enlightened than they were 4000 years ago.
3. Re:Another Peace Prize to a Muslim? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 08:32 · Score: 0
  
  Malaria?
  Okay, I did chuckle at that.
4. Re:Another Peace Prize to a Muslim? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 08:35 · Score: 0
  
  I like it. Shes really a pain in the ass [or a mosquito bite].
What? Not Snowden???? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 01:02 · Score: 0, Insightful

When is this world going to come to understand the tremendous service he did to all of us, not just those in the States? Sometimes I think Putin stands a better chance of getting a Nobel than Snowden ever will. I guess if they're handing them out to rookie US presidents, they're selection criteria is a little nuts anyway.
1. Re:What? Not Snowden???? by MagickalMyst · 2015-10-09 01:16 · Score: 0
  
  Mod +1
  
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2. Re:What? Not Snowden???? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 02:03 · Score: 0
  
  Did you stop taking your meds again?
3. Re:What? Not Snowden???? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 02:14 · Score: -1
  
  When is this world going to come to understand the tremendous service he did to all of us, not just those in the States? Sometimes I think Putin stands a better chance of getting a Nobel than Snowden ever will. I guess if they're handing them out to rookie US presidents, they're selection criteria is a little nuts anyway.
  Doesn't matter what Snowden did because of who he did it to: Obama.
  Can't attack Obama in any way.
  That would be RAAAAACIST!
4. Re:What? Not Snowden???? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 07:25 · Score: 0
  
  It's a political prize. They give it to whoever will help their cause the most. Snowden will never receive one, and neither will Putin.
5. Re:What? Not Snowden???? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 09:12 · Score: 0
  
  Doesn't matter what Snowden did because of who he did it to: Obama.
  Can't attack Obama in any way.
  That would be RAAAAACIST!
  Um, I could be wrong--wouldn't be the first time--but my (admittedly hazy) recollection is that a lot of the surveillance programs were first initiated under the Bush administration. Just sayin'.
6. Re:What? Not Snowden???? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 09:20 · Score: 0
  
  Doesn't matter what Snowden did because of who he did it to: Obama.
  Can't attack Obama in any way.
  That would be RAAAAACIST!
  Um, I could be wrong--wouldn't be the first time--but my (admittedly hazy) recollection is that a lot of the surveillance programs were first initiated under the Bush administration. Just sayin'.
  Even if your assertion is stipulated to be true, what has Obama done to stop it?
  Are you really so pathetic as to fall back on IT'S TEH EVUL BOOOOOSH'S!!!!! FAULT!!!"?
  SIX FUCKING YEARS INTO OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY?!?!?!?.
  Jesus fucking Christ you have a Thalidomide brain.
7. Re:What? Not Snowden???? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 10:22 · Score: 0
  
  Doesn't matter what Snowden did because of who he did it to: Obama.
  Can't attack Obama in any way.
  That would be RAAAAACIST!
  Um, I could be wrong--wouldn't be the first time--but my (admittedly hazy) recollection is that a lot of the surveillance programs were first initiated under the Bush administration. Just sayin'.
  Even if your assertion is stipulated to be true, what has Obama done to stop it?
  Are you really so pathetic as to fall back on IT'S TEH EVUL BOOOOOSH'S!!!!! FAULT!!!"?
  SIX FUCKING YEARS INTO OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY?!?!?!?.
  Jesus fucking Christ you have a Thalidomide brain.
  After you have wiped away the spittle from your monitor, can we talk? My point was not to absolve Obama because Bush started it. Rather, my point was that hesitating to call out Obama because of fears of being called a racist seem preposterous to me. When has Snowden ever even hinted that his classified leaks were aimed directly at undermining Obama? In fact, I haven't seen anyone hesitant to call out either Bush or Obama on this. And why would they? White or black, they both seem to be more or less equally culpable. Also let's not forget that much of the criticism for these surveillance programs has been directed at Congress, both Republican and Democrat. And rightly so.
  OK, after you have stopped hyperventilating, I will let you to have the last word.
8. Re: What? Not Snowden???? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 12:22 · Score: 0
  
  Why would Putin ever receive the peace prize?
Nobel Committee gets behind Arab Spring by rmdingler · 2015-10-09 01:05 · Score: 1

It is being reported the Nobel Committee is attempting to revive waning strength (and interest) in the Arab Spring uprisings.
The Pope and Edward Snowden are believed to have been prospective candidates for this year's Peace Prize.

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1. Re:Nobel Committee gets behind Arab Spring by Mike+Van+Pelt · 2015-10-09 05:16 · Score: 0
  
  It is being reported the Nobel Committee is attempting to revive waning strength (and interest) in the Arab Spring uprisings.
  I don't see the positive "peace" value in replacing unpleasant authoritarian regimes with totalitarian Islamist theocracies, which is where most of the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings have ended up.
2. Re:Nobel Committee gets behind Arab Spring by rmdingler · 2015-10-09 08:31 · Score: 1
  
  I don't see the positive "peace" value in replacing unpleasant authoritarian regimes with totalitarian Islamist theocracies, which is where most of the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings have ended up.
  Ah, the Iraqi solution.
  
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Giving it to Snowden would be slap in Obama's face by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 01:12 · Score: 0

Can't have that.
happy birthday john,, wherever you are by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 01:15 · Score: -1

& we know you are still here somewhere... we're still working on it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU
If you want to see by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 01:18 · Score: -1, Flamebait

If you want to see how peaceful a Tunisian national is, draw and label a picture of Mohammed, videotape yourself taking a shit on it while chanting "Poo Poo Akbar!", then go to Tunis and start distributing copies to school children.
1. Re:If you want to see by Gavagai80 · 2015-10-09 01:33 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  If you want to see how peaceful an American is, it's easier: just burn their flag and most of them want to throw you in jail. Or become an abortion doctor (safer in Tunisia).
  
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2. Re:If you want to see by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 03:29 · Score: 0
  
  You can burn the U.S. flag and nobody can throw you in jail. The "speech" is protected, even it means you're an asshole.
  You can also become an abortion doctor. Still legal everywhere in the U.S. And always will be.
3. Re:If you want to see by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 04:04 · Score: 0
  
  http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ali-mohammed-al-nimr-crucifixion-defiant-saudi-arabia-rejects-international-interference-1522958
  Yeah I think I'll try my luck in the US instead of an Arabic country.
4. Re:If you want to see by mjm1231 · 2015-10-09 04:28 · Score: 1
  
  You can burn the U.S. flag and nobody can throw you in jail. The "speech" is protected, even it means you're an asshole.
  You just called the US Marines and the Army assholes. Nice going.
  From the Marine Corps Flag Manual, MCO P10520.3B,: "Flags determined not to have historical value will be destroyed by the parent organization, privately by burning,"
  Army Regulation is AR840-10. Section 2-12, paragraph c, states that if the flag has no historic value, "it should be destroyed privately, preferably by burning,"
  
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5. Re:If you want to see by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 04:30 · Score: -1
  
  You're an idiot.
6. Re:If you want to see by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 05:34 · Score: 0
  
  You just called the US Marines and the Army assholes. Nice going.
  Firstly, assholes isn't the phrase I would choose, I think war criminals is a better fit, or expendable human garbage.
  Secondly, nobody on slashdot could possibly care less about your useless fucking knowledge of army law.
7. Re:If you want to see by Nidi62 · 2015-10-09 06:08 · Score: 1
  
  You can burn the U.S. flag and nobody can throw you in jail. The "speech" is protected, even it means you're an asshole.
  You just called the US Marines and the Army assholes. Nice going.
  From the Marine Corps Flag Manual, MCO P10520.3B,: "Flags determined not to have historical value will be destroyed by the parent organization, privately by burning,"
  Army Regulation is AR840-10. Section 2-12, paragraph c, states that if the flag has no historic value, "it should be destroyed privately, preferably by burning,"
  You do realize that burning is the proper way to dispose of a US flag, right? The flag must be folded in the traditional triangle shape and placed on the fire. If burning the flag is somehow not possible then it is permitted to bury the flag, again in the triangle fold. You can also shred the flag before burial. This actually is not limited to US flags, other nations have been known to shred and bury flags, particularly in tomes of war to avoid capture of the intact flag.
  
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8. Re:If you want to see by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 09:27 · Score: 0
  
  If you want to see how peaceful an American is, it's easier: just burn their flag and most of them want to throw you in jail. Or become an abortion doctor (safer in Tunisia).
  Even better, you can send Christians into a murderous rage by submerging a crucifix of Jesus Christ in urine.
  Oh, wait. No you wouldn't.
  That would be send MUSLIMS into a murderous rage for daring to draw Mohammad the Pederast.
  Or maybe that would be send MUSLIMS into a murderous rage for flushing a Koran down a shitter (where it belongs).
  Then again, it could be send MUSLIMS into a murderous rage for daring to make a film critical of Islam.
  And if you think it's safe to perform abortions in the Muslim world, you live on a planet that does not have a blue sky.
  But that was obvious anyway.
9. Re:If you want to see by FunkSoulBrother · 2015-10-09 10:43 · Score: 1
  
  Even better, you can send Christians into a murderous rage by submerging a crucifix of Jesus Christ in urine.
  Oh, wait. No you wouldn't.
  
  he work was vandalized at the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, and gallery officials reported receiving death threats in response to Piss Christ.[15]
  ?????
Scrap The Peace Prize by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 01:19 · Score: 0, Interesting

It's too politically motivated and devalues the other prize categories.
1. Re: Scrap The Peace Prize by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 12:28 · Score: 0
  
  The peace prize doesn't have much to do with the other categories, it's even handed out in Norway. Come to think of it that might have something to do with the poor choices....
Friday Fun by PopeRatzo · 2015-10-09 01:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Let me kick it off:
"Friggin' SJWs, the lot of 'em. They should just stop the UN from giving these stupid Nobel prizes, because they always go to feminazis anyway, like that Chemistry Nobel last week that they gave to Youyou Tu just because she was a woman. I mean, who even gets malaria anymore?"

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1. Re:Friday Fun by shilly · 2015-10-09 01:32 · Score: 1
  
  Sadly, the real bigots beat you to it.
2. Re:Friday Fun by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 02:38 · Score: 0
  
  the peace prize and literature prize are the only political ones. Even a moron like has to agree some of the choices were objectively bad.
3. Re:Friday Fun by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 11:03 · Score: 0
  
  ONLY about million die each year from malaria, a drop in the bucket to a fool like you. That does not including the ones that survive.
I thought they were handing them only to genocidal by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 01:34 · Score: 0

First Obama, and this year there was word on the streets Merkel is being considered.
Um by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 01:47 · Score: 0

That's 5 organizations
1. Re:Um by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 02:55 · Score: 0
  
  That's 5 organizations
  So you don't even need to be able to count numbers below ten anymore to be a nerd today?
  1. Tunisian General Labour Union;
  2. Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts;
  3. Tunisian Human Rights League;
  4. Tunisian Order of Lawyers.
Re:Giving it to Snowden would be slap in Obama's f by XxtraLarGe · 2015-10-09 02:03 · Score: 4, Interesting

Can't have that.
Well, Obama does have the distinction of being the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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one of five Arab Sopring uprisings worked by peter303 · 2015-10-09 02:10 · Score: 3, Insightful

This one in Tunusia was the first and most successful. Egypt tried demoracy for one year and returned to a military dictatorship. Libyia, Yemen and Syria are war zones.
1. Re:one of five Arab Sopring uprisings worked by Shatrat · 2015-10-09 02:26 · Score: 2
  
  The lesson is if you want an Arab Spring to work, be as far away from the Arab Peninsula as possible.
  
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2. Re:one of five Arab Sopring uprisings worked by Nidi62 · 2015-10-09 03:24 · Score: 1
  
  The lesson is if you want an Arab Spring to work, be as far away from the Arab Peninsula as possible.
  Or you just need actors that are actually committed to forming a representative democracy instead of just taking power for yourself. This last part isn't limited just to the Middle East, unfortunately.
  
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3. Re:one of five Arab Sopring uprisings worked by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 10:13 · Score: 0
  
  The Arab Spring turned out to be a pretty major disappointment. I mean, good luck and good will to Tunisia, that's progress. However you have to admit that Tunisia is a small country and the Arab Spring had much bigger promise than that.
  If the Spring had really succeeded in Egypt, people would have much more positive view of the whole effort. The failure of Egypt meant that the Spring itself feels like a failure. Alternatively, if everyone but Egypt & Syria had succeeded, I think that too would have been a great legacy. In retrospect asking for democracy in Syria seems like a classic overreach. Syria had none of the social and political underpinnings to support governance based on freedoms.
Shouldn't it be a World Heritage Site? by willworkforbeer · 2015-10-09 02:16 · Score: 1

Since they filmed parts of Star Wars there. Just think of the Annual Nerd Pilgrimage tourism dollars pouring into Tunisia.

A name for this mass migration / convention? Not 'SciFi Con' or 'Force Con'... Call it, The "Ultimate Con".

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Re:Giving it to Snowden would be slap in Obama's f by MobyDisk · 2015-10-09 03:46 · Score: 1

That anecdote is super compelling, but after reading it I don't understand.
1) Who is the other Nobel Peace Prize winner you are referring to? The article mentions Joanne Liu, but she isn't a nobel winner. So who is it?
2) Obama didn't order that strike anyway. But I'll let that slide since he is commander-in-chief.
Re:Giving it to Snowden would be slap in Obama's f by MobyDisk · 2015-10-09 03:48 · Score: 1

Let me answer my own question:
I didn't realize that entire organizations could get the prize. I thought it was just individuals. Doctor's without borders received the Nobel Peace Prize. Now I feel dumb.
Re: Giving it to Snowden would be slap in Obama's by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 05:06 · Score: 0

To be fair, Obama never won the prize personally. When "not George Bush" won in 2009, Obama just happened to walk by when they handed it out.
Just a suggestion... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 06:33 · Score: 0

Maybe the dialog quartet can start singing so we can call them a barber shop quartet.
Shouldn't that prize be for promoting PEACE? by Opportunist · 2015-10-09 08:08 · Score: 1

I do have to say that yes, what they overthrew were no angels. By no stretch of the word (maybe if you add "hell's" before it). But these dictators did one thing: Keep shit quiet. Yes, with force and oppression. But there was PEACE.
Let's take a look at the whole shit now, shall we? North Africa is less stable than ever and the "spring'ed" countries of the Middle East are being overrun by ISIS. That's peace?
And here I was thinking after Obama and "the EU", you couldn't get any more off. But you sure outdid yourself again, committee. Well? Next year maybe ISIS gets a chance to get one.
It's only the logical extension of the practice so far.

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Re:Giving it to Snowden would be slap in Obama's f by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 08:55 · Score: 0

. Now I feel dumb.
But don't feel. The joke's on the Nobel committee, whatever it may be.
Re:Giving it to Snowden would be slap in Obama's f by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 09:13 · Score: 0

He also has the distinction of a few mere days after accepting the award, being the first ever leader to detonate a bomb on another celestial body - the moon.