an international youth seminar for peace
from 12 to 16 august 2014 in Moss Norway
YOUTH & ACTION:
towards a new generation for peace. act III
200 YOUTH FROM 13-18 YEARS ARE INVITED TO GET ENGAGED IN THE WORK OF PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN A PLAYFUL WAY. A FANTASTIC EVENT TO CELEBRATE THE 200th ANNIVERSARY OF THE NORWEGIAN CONSTITUTION.
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in 2012 this is what happened...
Barnas Fredsverden with the support of UD, Moss Kommune, Ungdommens Fylkesråd and the American College of Norway has organised in August 16th and 17th a PEACE seminar inviting 32 young people from the region to come and share 2 days of uplifting, interesting, fun activities around the theme of PEACE inviting different organisations like Amnesty international, Play for Peace, CISV Norway, Nansen Center for Dialogue and Peace, Play for Peace, HelloEarth to give workshops around the notions of "activism", "political awareness", "respect", "peace" and boundaries.
Some figures:
32 young participants aged: from 13 to 18 years from 3 cities (Moss, Sarpsborg and Fredrikstad)
1 Minister of Environment: Mr Baard Vegar Sohljell
1 Mayor (Moss): Tage Petersen
8 workshops
2 plenum speechs
16 Trainers from 9 countries (USA, Turkey, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Afghanistan, Serbia, Russia, Norway)
We have also received the support from Play for Peace a global non-profit organisation based in Guatemala. Play for Peace’s mission is to bring together children, youth and organizations from communities in conflict, using cooperative play to create laughter, compassion and peace. Play for Peace has organizations throughout the world including Israel, Vietnam, the US and so on.Play for Peace has sent us their board member John Guarrine, who has had a major role in the process, lighting up the seminar with his long experience. We have also had a contact with Play for peace in India where a whole school in Bangalore has connected with us on the second day – playing games, sharing information, dancing and putting up a virtual choir with the young Norwegians.
And to finish these very energetic two days, we have organized a street party where different fun activities have been arranged: food from Angola, free ice cream for all, storytelling for the children, music of course, a lot of dance, and we got the exclusivity of a street video-game, called Johan Sebastian Joust …
Trainers and facilitators 2012
Christiane Seehausen - Nansen Center for Peace and DialogueÅsmund Kongsvik - CISV NorwayTobias Hoffmann - CISV NorwayAndrea Barna - CISV Norway Vera Maeder - HelloEarth! Denmark Neslihan Ozgunes – Casco - Turkey John Guarinne - Play for peace USAJ awid Kohnadi – Trainee Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue (Master degree in Peace and Conflict transformation at University of Oslo.) Aida Zunic - Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue Ingrid Klokkevold – Amnesty International - Norway Jacob Kreyberg – Amnesty International - Norway Vilde Naomi Enge– Amnesty International - Norway Nina Antonov– Amnesty International- NorwayKim Sivertsen - Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue Kristine Moskvil Thorsen – independent trainer Kathlyn Kylee – Play for peace.