The Peace Prize this year went to four Tunisian groups collectively called the National Dialogue Quartet. I'll link you to Reuters' discussion of the particulars here. What is enduringly fascinating about the Peace Prize as an institution is that there is this tug-of-war (please excuse the term if it seems like an inapt pun, but it is the name of a game!) between two very different conceptions of what the search for peace means, and how one advances it. On the one hand, there is Peace From Above. Peace, on this view (which one would expect would be the intuitive view of a man who became wealthy from dynamite) is something gifted to us by heads of state, or their immediate appointees, who confer and converse and otherwise hobnob with one another. They recognize in their own more sober moments that war is a bloody and expensive business and they come together to resolve it. In this mode the committee gives us awards for Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho (1973), Anwar Sad...