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Tunisian Quartet That Saved Arab Spring Gets Nobel Prize

October 9, 2015 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Tunisian Quartet Saved Arab Spring

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Tunisian Quartet that helped birth rare democracy out of Arab Spring | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Tunis (dpa) – In early 2011, Tunisian president Zine Abidine Ben Ali was the first Arab dictator to be ousted by mass protests. In October that year, the Islamist Ennahda movement came first in free elections and took power at the head of a three-party coalition. But by mid-2013 the country’s political transition seemed under threat.…

A Tunisian coalition of workers, employers, human rights activists and lawyers won the Nobel Peace Prize, on Friday, for pulling the country that sparked the Arab Spring back onto a path towards democracy and preventing it from descending into civil war. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet “for its decisive contribution to…

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Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Arab Spring, Middle East, Tunisia

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