Dialogue for empowerment and change
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”
“Dialogue is not about forgiving, forgetting or excusing the other. Dialogue is about listening and learning why and how it was done”. This was the key message by Alfredo Zamudio during his recent visit to Albania, as a guest to Diplohack Tirana 2018.
Nobel Peace Prize 2018: Sexual violence is the first crime and silence is the second
Sexual violence is the first crime and the second crime is the silence that follows. Silence is an enemy of the victims of sexual violence. Silence makes it possible for crimes to be repeated, says Alfredo Zamudio, director for the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue.
The vital importance of humility in dialogue
