(VOVworld) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end the 52-year-old war with the Marxist FARC rebels, a surprise choice after Colombians had voted against the accord in a referendum.

Santos has promised to revive the peace plan even though Colombians narrowly rejected it in the referendum on Sunday.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Santos had brought one of the longest civil wars in modern history significantly closer to a peaceful solution but there was still a real danger that the peace process could come to a halt.