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

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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Re:If you want to see

[Gavagai80]

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).

Re:Giving it to Snowden would be slap in Obama's f

[XxtraLarGe]

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.

one of five Arab Sopring uprisings worked

[peter303]

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.

Re:one of five Arab Sopring uprisings worked

[Shatrat]

The lesson is if you want an Arab Spring to work, be as far away from the Arab Peninsula as possible.