He knows Latin America well, having lived in Venezuela as a teenager, and has previously produced a documentary series about the over five million internally displaced people in Colombia, people driven from their homes during the country’s 50-year long civil war. When it was announced on 7 October 2016 that Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos — and with him the entire Colombian nation — had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, it did not take long before Nissen was on a plane bound for Bogota.