HKS alum Juan Manuel Santos awarded 2016 Nobel Peace Prize
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School, M.C./M.P.A. ’81, has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced this morning. The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Santos “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 6 million people,” the committee stated this morning on the Nobel website. “The award should also be seen as a tribute to the Colombian people who, despite great hardships and abuses, have not given up hope of a just peace, and to all the parties who have contributed to the peace process. This tribute is paid, not least, to the representatives of the countless victims of the civil war.” Santos spoke at Harvard Kennedy School in 2010 and...