Nobel Peace Prize 2018: Sexual violence is the first crime and silence is the second
The vital importance of humility in dialogue
Not everyone can be a Fridtjof Nansen. Most of us won’t sail to the arctic, or convince 52 governments to accept a passport for war refugees named after us, have our deathbeds personally visited by the King of Norway, or have a famous school for peace building built in honor of our humanitarian work, says Rebecka Green, Iowa , USA.
Learning to listen in Lillehammer
The summer finds us, forty young people from over a dozen countries, in Lillehammer, to talk about dialogue – or to do it, somehow. At the very least, we are here to listen to each other, with most of us coming from places where conflicts have been or still are an uncomfortably real thing, says Josh Nadeau, who attended this year’s Nansen Dialogue Summer School.
The world is getting smaller – Nansen Dialogue Summer School of June 2018
My journey to the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue began a long time ago, in 2004. I was starting a career as an international news editor at a Ukrainian TV station, and updates from all over the world were part of my routine. The news were mostly about wars, terror attacks, pointless political discussions, natural disasters – daily life and daily death, says Olga Ivanova, Ukraine. [Read more…]
Press Release on Extra Funding for Lillehammer Dialogue City
After the negotiations between the Norwegian government parties were completed it became clear that the NCPD receives a one time payment of 1 million NOK, allocated to completing “Lillehammer Dialogue City”.
Male and female religious leaders work together for peace in Afghanistan
Male and female religious leaders work together for peace in Afghanistan. This is one of the most important achievements assessed in an evaluation of Religious Actors for Peace (RAP) in Afghanistan by our Special Advisor Norunn Grande.
Do you descend from one of the Norwegian sailors from World War I?
The Lillehammer Dialogue City conference will take place from June 19th – 23, 2018. It is arranged by The Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue and the Inland Norway University for Applied Sciences.
The value of my stay at the Nansen and Oslo Summer School
I’ve always cared about peace-making and reconciliation, and this is the story of how the Summer School at the Lillehammer Nansen Academy and the University of Oslo offered a path, says Elena Levina.
Givat Haviva – working for coexistence and a shared society in Israel
How do we find the formula for the best lives together? How do we share the resources and opportunities in a given society when some feel they have more rights than others? [Read more…]
Living in contrasts – between peace and war in Kyiv Ukraine
