Monthly Archives: August 2012
Laureate Lights: What do you know about Yemen?
For the third and final post in our series about Nobel Peace Prize Winner (and 2013 Forum speaker!) Tawakkol Karman, we’ve collected some information about the country of Yemen and the unrest experienced there over the past year. Yemen is … Continue reading
Laureate Lights: Women Journalists Without Chains
For the next post in our “Laureate Lights” series, we’ve put together a brief over of the Women Journalists without Chains (WJWC) organization, which is a human rights group founded by Tawakkol Karman and seven other female journalists. Founded in … Continue reading
Laureate Lights: Introduction to Tawakkol Karman
You may recall that earlier this year we launched “Laureate Lights,” a new blog series, with some blog, Facebook, and Twitter posts about Aung San Suu Kyi (1991 Peace Prize winner). Now that Tawakkol Karman has accepted our invitation to … Continue reading
Peace Scholar Post: The July 22nd Memorial Concert
While in Oslo as Peace Scholars, we’ve been deeply immersed in peace and conflict studies and kept busy by meeting wonderful leaders in the field of peace research such as Henrik Syse, innovators like Lisa Cooper and her Norwegian-Somali bridge … Continue reading
Peace Scholar Post: Researching Norwegian Nationalism
This is part of a series of blog posts written by the 2012 Peace Scholars as they complete their summer program in Oslo, Norway. This post was written by Charlotte Rosen from St. Olaf College. After spending 7 weeks in Oslo as … Continue reading
Peace Scholar Post: More thoughts on Norwegian Dialogue
This is part of a series of blog posts written by the 2012 Peace Scholars as they complete their summer program in Oslo, Norway. This post was written by Adam Mousel from Concordia College. The first week I learned about Steinar Bryn’s … Continue reading
Peace Scholar Post: Visiting The Nansen Dialogue Network
This is part of a series of blog posts written by the 2012 Peace Scholars as they complete their summer program in Oslo, Norway. This post was written by Peter Larsen from Augsburg College. As referenced in an earlier post by Jordan, … Continue reading
Greetings from a Former Peace Scholar
We received this note from Lauren Griffin, a 2011 Peace Scholar from Luther College. What exciting news that Tawakkol Karman will be at the 2013 NPPF! That is absolutely incredible! I wish that I could be there, but I actually … Continue reading
Peace Scholar Post: The July 22nd Memorial
This is part of a series of blog posts written by the 2012 Peace Scholars as they complete their summer program in Oslo, Norway. This post was written by Maren Engel from Augustana College. I knew this summer would fly by but … Continue reading
Peace Scholar Post: Norwegian Demographics
This is part of a series of blog posts written by the 2012 Peace Scholars as they complete their summer program in Oslo, Norway. This post was written by Luke Hanson from Luther College. Before arriving in Oslo for the International Summer … Continue reading
