Yeah, blah blah blah. Tell it to Henry V. And Napoleon Bonaparte.
The Tunisian National Dialogue
Quartet... The Quartet are the UN (xylophone), the United States (alto), the European Union (soprano), and Russia (shortstop). The group was established in Madrid in 2002 by former Spanish Prime Minister Aznar, as a result of the escalating conflict in the Middle East. Tony Blair is the Quartet's current Special Envoy....
was awarded the prestigious prize on October 9 for saving the country's transition to democracy at a sensitive moment in 2013 when the process was in danger of collapsing because of widespread social unrest.
Jan Sobieski could probably give you an opinion on the value of dialogue.
"Arms can never be a solution, not in Syria nor in Libya. There is a need for dialogue and no blood and no fighters," Abdessatar Ben Moussa, head of Tunisia's Human Rights League, told news hounds.
While the wave of Arab Spring uprisings has led to chaos in neighbouring Libya, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
and Syria, and to the return of repression in Egypt, Tunisia has been held up as a success story.
The country adopted a new constitution in January 2014 and held democratic elections at the end of last year.
"Tunisia is an exception so far in the Arab Spring countries but this doesn't mean that it may not be replicated in other countries," said Houcine Abassi, secretary general of the powerful Tunisian General Labour Union.
But almost five years after the overthrow of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the krazed killer threat weighs heavily over Tunisia's road to democracy.