Juan Manuel Santos is the sole recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 2016 for bringing the country’s 50 year long civil war to an end.
According to Nobel Prize website,
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2016 to Colombian President Juan Manuel 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 six million people.
About Columbia
Colombia which is officially known as the Republic of Colombia is a transcontinental country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil, to the south with Ecuador and Peru. It shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca, Quimbaya, and Tairona.
About FARC
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia—Ejército del Pueblo, FARC–EP and FARC) is a guerrilla movement involved in the continuing Colombian armed conflict since 1964. It has been known to employ a variety of military tactics in addition to more unconventional methods, including terrorism. The FARC-EP, which formed during the Cold War period as a Marxist–Leninist peasant force, promotes a political line of agrarianism and anti-imperialism. The operations of the FARC–EP were funded by kidnap and ransom; illegal mining; extortion or taxation of various forms of economic activity; and the taxation, production, and distribution of illegal drugs. The United Nations has estimated that 12% of all killings of civilians in Colombian conflict have been committed by FARC and ELN guerrillas, and the rest, 80%, by government forces and paramilitaries.
About Agreement
Ceasefire agreement between Colombia and Farc rebels extended until 31 December 2016. President Juan Manuel Santos will meet Farc leaders in Havana to discuss the changes to be made to the deal. President Juan Manuel Santos has said that the ceasefire agreement between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) and the Colombian government will be extended until the end of 2016. The move is aimed at reviving a peace accord, which was signed between the rebels and the government in September to end a five decade-long conflict. However, the deal was rejected by the people of Colombia in a subsequent referendum held on 2 October.
References:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Manuel_Santos
- http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ceasefire-agreement-between-colombia-farc-rebels-extended-until-31-december-1586301
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARC
- https://www.nobelprize.org
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