Tunisian mediators win Peace Nobel

Oslo, Oct 10: Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for building democracy in the country after the 2011 revolution which unleashed the Arab Spring. The recipients are Wided Bouchamaoui, president of the Tunisian Employers’ Union, Houcine Abbassi, secretary general of Tunisian General Labour Union, Abdessattar Ben Moussa, president of Tunisian Human Rights, and Mohamed Fadhel Mahmoud, president of the National Bar Association of Tunisia. The award was given for the quartet’s “decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011”, the Nobel panel said. The committee said the prize was also intended as an encouragement to other countries to follow in Tunisia’s footsteps. Agencies