Nobel Peace Prize 2016 Winner Is Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos For An Ongoing Project

Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2016 has been awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. The awardee has been felicitated for his ongoing efforts to curb the war that his country has been fighting for past 50 years. This war has resulted in almost 200,000 dead civilians till now.

However, the peace deal that his government has carried out with Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) guerrilla group has been rejected by the people of the country by a very small amount. This means that the war would still continue between the country and the guerrilla group.

Norwegian Nobel Committee has stated that Mr Santos’s Peace Prize is not only his, but it is a tribute to all the Colombian people who have never lost hope of peace despite all the hardships and abuses that they have faced in all these years, as well as other parties who have contributed to this process.

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning is another example of how the prize has been recently used as a tool of encouragement for groups and people to complete with what they have started. The same has been done in the year 1993, 2007, 2009 and 2015, where the projects which were still under process had been rewarded. Which makes us think that, would the Nobel Peace Prize from now onwards be only awarded to those with a strong idea?

On the other side, many are disappointed with the result, as they expected the Syrian White Helmets to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year. They were social media’s favourite and frankly deserved the title, due to their work of saving lives on a day-to-day basis.

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7 October 2016
Jyotsna Amla