the other day when Johan Galtung arrived to the seminar I had invited him to speak to, it was the first time I was meeting him. He greeted me so warmly. Hugs and “finally” ….But before I even said hello, he handed me over a little piece of paper containing something, holding it in this…
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Johan Galtung singing…
Tomorrow evening we will have the immense honour to host Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung. I thought it would nice to hear him sing a song. This song is very special. It is for french people very famous, it is the famous anti-militaristic ode: Le Déserteur, by Boris Vian, 1954. Galtung himself was jailed for six…
Some news from the front desk “seminar preparation”
As we are getting closer to our YOUTH & ACTION seminar (the third edition of its kind) I am personally really happy that in less than a week I will get known with at least 19 different cultures, I will shake hands with people coming from at least 15 countries, and I will get to smile…
a message from our friends and colleagues of SADAKA REUT (israeli-palestinian friendship)
Dear friends and partners, Once again we find ourselves in the midst of yet another violent escalation of the conflict. We are appalled and deeply saddened by the turning of these events. We mourn the death of over 700 women, men and children and thousands of wounded in Gaza to date. As all other citizens…
The convention of Moss
The Convention of Moss was a cease fire agreement, signed August 14, 1814, between the Swedish King and the Norwegian government. It followed the Swedish-Norwegian War due to Norway’s claim to sovereignty. It also became the de facto peace agreement and formed the basis for the personal union between Sweden and Norway that was established…
We are in the press – 24 march 2014
preparation for the international seminar 2014.
The preparation are on it way and we have confirmations of several organisations and personalities who are attending this year! we have announced already the fabulous news about Jeremy Gilley of Peace one day and also the very famous historian, researcher Johan Galtung, and we will also see the return of Marco Elsafadi, whom we…
Jeremy Gilley in Moss!
I am so happy today! We just got the confirmation of Jeremy Gilley coming to our peace seminar this year! Here is a little more on Jeremy and his work. for those who would not know him yet! Jeremy Gilley is a social entrepreneur, filmmaker, actor and businessman. Following a lucrative acting career, Jeremy began making his own films before founding the non-profit film project, Peace One Day in 1999. The film presented the World with Jeremy’s efforts to establish a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, every year. Subsequent to his campaign, United Nations member states unanimously adopted a General Assembly resolution in September 2001. The resolution saw to it that 21st September was from then on established as the UN International Day of Peace. Peace One Day, as an organization, operates across music and film, dance, sports and education as well as embracing the evolving technologies within the Internet, and through these means Peace One Day has been proven to work. Millions of people from all over the World have taken part in Peace Day and, since it was established, areas of conflict have now been accessible to organizations looking to carry out important work for the community. Peace One Day ambassador, Jude Law, and Jeremy Gilley lead a campaign that has resulted in 4.5 million Afghan children receiving polio vaccinations who would otherwise have been inaccessible. Peace One Day’s main objective is to create global unity and cooperation to make Peace Day self- sustaining; a notion that has not been attempted nor even openly contemplated before. Peace Day 2011 saw Jeremy Gilley launch the Global Truce campaign – an effort to assemble the largest number of individuals, from across the World, in the name of peace with the view to measure the reduction in World violence. Building a series of networks and enabling organizations to show off and be inspired by each other’s Peace Day plans, are part of the concept. Jeremy is also developing methods to measure how successful his campaign is each year and what can be done to ensure it does better the next. Peace One Day and Jeremy’s role within it is all about raising awareness of Peace Day. This includes collaborating with the relevant people, companies and charities and stems out to making globally-viewed documentaries, as well as organizing concerts attended by some of the biggest names in music. Gilley has spoken at a number of high profile events, and won numerous awards as a result of his efforts. He has also written a children’s book.
History of BaFa’ BaFa’ : A Cross Cultural/Diversity/Inclusion Simulation
If some of you have attended the peace seminar this year and participated to the fabulous bafa bafa workshop, you know a little more about it. but maybe you would like to go deeper and understand more. So here are some more hints about the meanings of this simulation game and what to expect when…
Peace speech by Robert Mood
Here is the peace speech some of you have seen/heard on the stage of parkteatret on wednesday 14th august at 18:14. The english translated text will come soon. Promise. Intet er svart hvitt – ei heller fred og forståelse av hva fred er. Vår definisjon og vårt demokrati passer her hos oss, men langt fra…
peace seminar moss 