"for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end."
Date
7 October 2016 (2016-10-07) (announcement by Kaci Kullmann Five)
10 December 2016 (ceremony)
Location
Oslo, Norway
Presented by
Norwegian Nobel Committee
Reward(s)
8 million SEK ($1M, €0.9M)
First awarded
1901
Website
Official website
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The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos (b. 1951) "for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people."[1] The conflict is the longest running war, and last remaining guerrilla struggle, in the Americas.[2] The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually to those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".[3] The announcement was made on 7 October at a press conference at the Nobel Peace Center, and the formal award ceremony took place on 10 December at the Oslo City Hall.[4]
The award was conferred only five days after the government's narrow defeat in the Colombian peace agreement referendum to ratify the final agreement on the peace process. The committee Chair Kaci Kullmann Five emphasized the effort and good intentions of Santos at the announcement press conference[2] and also in the award citation:[1]
The Norwegian Nobel Committee emphasizes the importance of the fact that President Santos is now inviting all parties to participate in a broad-based national dialogue aimed at advancing the peace process. Even those who opposed the peace accord have welcomed such a dialogue. The Nobel Committee hopes that all parties will take their share of responsibility and participate constructively in the upcoming peace talks.
Santos was first informed of the prize by his son in the pre-dawn of the day of the announcement.[2] In his first public statement he declared, "This honourable distinction is not for me, it is for all the victims of the conflict. Together we will win the most important prize of all: PEACE."[5] In the days following he also announced that the 8 million SEK prize (approximately 2.7 billion Colombian pesos) would be donated to support victims of the conflict.[6]
^ ab"The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 - Press Release". Nobel Media AB. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
^ abcCite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"Nobel Peace Prize", The Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth Century World History
^"The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
^Santos, Juan Manuel (7 October 2016). "Esta honrosa distinción no es para mí, es para todas las víctimas del conflicto. Juntos ganaremos el premio más importante de todos: LA PAZ" (in Spanish). Twitter. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
^"Colombia's President Santos donates Nobel money to conflict victims". BBC News. 9 October 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
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