A world of dialogue
Dialogue for empowerment and change
“I always wished there would be something I could do to improve relations and cooperation in the diverse and challenging multicultural contexts that I come from. I found an answer to this problem in a land thousands of kilometers away from home.”
-Seinn Seinn Min, from Myanmar
Children are building bridges where adults do not want to
Bosnia-Herzegovina: While children celebrate the cohesion, several politicians play on disunity. Recently, hundreds of children attended a happening in the town of Prijedor.
-To create lasting peace and stability, the cohesion between people must be strengthened, says the Norwegian ambassador Guri Rusten.
Women in Brazil: “We need tools like dialogue to stay alive and healthy”
20 million women declare to have suffered some sort of violence perpetrated by men in Brazil. The organization SILO wants to use dialogue to bring voices together and strengthen communities.
Steinar Bryn is retiring
Steinar Bryn is retiring and leaving his position as senior advisor at the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue in Lillehammer.
Video: Open public dialogue about revenge
Open public dialogue is a tool to include many voices. It allows you to learn about what happened, who did it and where we are going from here.
May 2019: Nansen Intensive Dialogue Training
May 19-24, Lillehammer, Norway
Are you interested in improving your dialogue skills? Are you working on transforming conflicts or preventing its escalation? The Nansen Training in Dialogue and Conflict Transformation is based on our field experiences from more than 20 years of work in a variety of situations, such as Western Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine.
-An extraordinary educational and useful week and lots of laughs
Participants attending the Nansen Facilitation Training were clear on their feedback on their views on how and why this training was useful for their work. Some of them work in countries affected by conflict, such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Ukraine. Others have challenges in other non-conflict related situations in Norway or Denmark, where dialogue can be used to increase social cohesion and participation.
“Dialogue is the key to healing our relationships”
he Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue are working together with the Afghanistan Committee to strengthen the local capacity for dialogue and conflict management in Afghanistan. Norunn Grande recently returned after an assignment in the war-torn country. “I enjoy spending time in Afghanistan, and people are clearly happy to have us. Every time I am there, I learn something new, but it is hard to hear about the very difficult situation people are living with”, says Norunn Grande.