Nobel Prize announcements are underway and every day the Nobel Prize Committee is announcing the awards. In the row, the committee has announced the Nobel Peace Prize for the Year. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to bring an end to a long period civil war in the country.
BREAKING NEWS The 2016 #NobelPrize #Peace is awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos pic.twitter.com/7OhiCruc1o
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2016
Even though the peace treaty his government signed with rebel group FARC (The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) fell through. However, Santos efforts are being recognised “for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end”. Santos has successfully conducted the referendum in Colombia for people to decide for a peace treaty with FARC.
Watch out the Video of the Announcement of the award:
Announcement of the 2016 #NobelPrize in Peace https://t.co/pMBPquTF3S
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 7, 2016
Despite the failed peace treaty referendum, Efforts of Santos have been recognised
It was earlier reported that Colombia had been dropped from the list of favourites for the prize after the country voted against the peace treaty between the government and the rebel group FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). Kristian Berg Harpviken, the head of the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, had said, “Colombia’s off any credible list.”
In a referendum on October 2, Colombian voters had rejected the peace treaty signed with the FARC group. The deal was rejected by 50.2% of voters, with 49.8% approving it. Thirteen million ballots were cast in the referendum to approve the treaty, which ended a 52-year-long civil war in the South American country.
Colombia now has two Nobel laureates. Author Gabriel García Márquez had won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
The Nobel prizes are awarded by the Nobel Foundation, established on the instructions issued by the inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel. The 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi on Monday.
