Nobel Prize for civil society – an Arab country on the rocky road to democracy:

A fitting decision, and yet, it remains a surprising one; by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet in December 2015, the Nobel Committee honored the four main driving forces in Tunisian civil society: the employers’ association UTICA , the trade union federation UGTT, the Tunisian Human Rights League and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers.