The Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 Tunisia/social media/ human rights
The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet ‘for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011’ [also known as the Arab Spring]. Social media and online communication played an important part in this work.
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