<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>EU-Logos</provider_name><provider_url>https://eulogos.blogactiv.eu</provider_url><author_name>EU-Logos</author_name><author_url>https://eulogos.blogactiv.eu/author/infoeu-logos-org/</author_url><title>#factoftheday Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos wins the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the country’s civil war</title><html>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;He signed this &lt;strong&gt;peace deal with the FARC&lt;/strong&gt; after 4 years of negotiations. The deal was meant to end &lt;strong&gt;52 years of conflict&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;The deal unfortunately collapsed last week as 50.2% of the Columbian voters &lt;strong&gt;rejected it in a referendum.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;Alvaro Uribe, the former president was one of the most vocal opponent against the deal, arguing that it was &lt;strong&gt;too lenient to the rebels&lt;/strong&gt;. (Those who confessed their crimes would get lighter sentences and the FARC would have 10 seats guaranteed in the Colombian Congress in the 2018 and 2022 elections).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;260,000&lt;/strong&gt; people died because of the conflict, while more than six millions have been internally displaced.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;The Nobel peace prize committee argued that the result of the referendum was important; &laquo;&nbsp;What the &laquo;&nbsp;No&nbsp;&raquo; side rejected was not the &lt;strong&gt;desire for peace&lt;/strong&gt;, but a specific peace agreement.&nbsp;&raquo;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;Santos recognised that the reason for the “No” was the &lt;strong&gt;difficulty to find a balance between the need for reconciliation and justice for the victims&lt;/strong&gt;. Yet, he promised to work for peace until his last day in office.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;The Nobel committee explained the wanted the prize to “give him strength to succeed in this difficult task”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;The Columbian president was selected for the prize from a list of &lt;strong&gt;376 candidates&lt;/strong&gt; (228 were individuals and 148 were organisations).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;The leading candidate until the announcement was the &lt;strong&gt;Syrian White Helmets&lt;/strong&gt;, a corps of first responders which has rescued thousands of victims in Syria from the beginning of the war.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify;&quot;&gt;This group of almost &lt;strong&gt;3000 volunteers&lt;/strong&gt; put their own lives on the line every day, notably with the recent developments in Aleppo.&lt;/p&gt;
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