The four officials facilitated the country’s peaceful transition to democracy after the 2011 Revolution.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2015 was on Friday, October 9, 2015, awarded to four Tunisian officials of the National Dialogue Committee who facilitated the country’s peaceful transition to democracy after the 2011 Revolution.

Reports said the joint winners, whose organisations include a labour union, a trade confederation, a human rights body and a lawyers group, did not figure in the popular speculation or in the favourites named by betting organisations for the prize.

The leaders and their organisations are Houcine Abbassi of the Tunisian General Labour Union, Wided Bouchamaoui of the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicraft, Abdessattar Ben Moussa of the Tunisian Human Rights League and Mohamed Fadhel Mahfoudh of the Tunisian Lawyers Council.

According to the BBC, the Nobel Committee said the group of civil society organisations made a “decisive contribution" to democracy after the 2011 Revolution. It added that the three men and one woman helped to establish a political process when the country "was on the brink of civil war."