Dialogue – a cheap and effective tool for preventing armed conflicts
The Polish model: big business invests in peace
The business sector and the civil society are working together for peace and strengthening democracy in Poland. In this interview, Orange Poland explains why a telecommunications company would use its resources to support dialogue and the social fabric.
Rethinking Dialogue
My first encounter with dialogue as a process of conflict transformation was in 2008 shortly after the post-election violence in Kenya that left over 1,200 dead and thousands of others displaced.
Annual report 2018 – Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue
We do not need more walls or lies between people. We need meeting points and more cooperation.
A world of dialogue
The International Summer School at the University of Oslo is gathering hundreds of students from all over the world. Some of them came to the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue, to learn the art of asking questions and to understand how to manage conflicts through 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
