Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos Awarded 2016 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts in helping end the decades-long Colombian civil war, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday, October 7.

Judges in Norway praised him for his peace deal with Farc rebels, signed last month after four years of negotiations.

But the agreement was narrowly rejected by Colombians in a referendum last weekend.

The 52-year conflict has led to the deaths of an estimated 260,000 people with more than six million people internally displaced.