2015 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the National Dialogue Quartet. The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on 9 October 2015.

The citation

The citation reads: "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011".

The laureate

The National Dialogue Quartet is an organisation.

Why it matters

The quartet of Tunisian organisations, representing unions, employers, lawyers and human rights campaigners, helped steer the country towards democracy after the revolution of 2011.

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.