The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet won the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its "decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia."
Kaci Kullmann Five, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, announced the prize.
The quartet, a coalition of four Tunisian organizations -- the Tunisian General Labour Union, the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts, the Tunisian Human Rights League and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers -- served as a "mediator and driving force to advance peaceful democratic development in Tunisia," Five said.
"The quartet paved the way for a peaceful dialogue between the citizens, the political parties and the authorities and helped to find consensus-based solutions to a wide range of challenges across political and religious divides," she added. "The broad-based national dialogue that the quartet succeeded in establishing countered the spread of violence in Tunisia, and its function is therefore comparable to that of the peace congresses to which Alfred Nobel refers in his will."
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