How Tunisian quartet emerged 2015 Nobel Prize winners

The National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia was awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for what the Nobel Committee said was was “for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.”
Long before the results were released, speculation was circulating about which global peace-keeper would be awarded the prestigious prize.
Many thought Pope Francis, who was named TIME’s Person of the Year in 2013 and has been praised internationally for his seemingly progressive agenda, would be selected.
The National Dialogue Quartet won the prize over another favorite: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has spent the past year leading Germany through one disaster after another. Under Merkel, Germany has shown compassion towards the influx of refugees, allowing hundreds of thousands to settle in the country. Merkel also helped keep the E.U whole as Greece suffered through yet another economic crisis.

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The Quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 when the Tunisian democratization process was in danger of collapsing amidst widespread social unrest.
“It established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war,” the Nobel Committee says in a statement. “It was thus instrumental in enabling Tunisia, in the space of a few years, to establish a constitutional system of government guaranteeing fundamental rights for the entire population, irrespective of gender, political conviction or religious belief.”

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