2016 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Juan Manuel Santos. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 7 October 2016.

The citation

The citation reads: "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end".

The laureate

Juan Manuel Santos was born in 1951 in Bogotá, Colombia.

Why it matters

The Colombian president agreed a peace deal with the FARC rebels to end a war that has claimed more than 200,000 lives, although voters narrowly rejected it in a referendum days before the award.

The prize

The prize is worth 8 million Swedish kronor. It will be presented in Oslo on 10 December, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite whose will founded the prizes in 1895.