Did you know? This year Norway is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian constitution - signed in Eidsvoll on 17 may 1814 and one of the main events to commemorate this special event in the Norwegian history, in the region of Østfold, is our international seminar!
After nearly 400 years under Denmark’s rule, 1814 marked the year that Norway became an independent nation, though in a union with Sweden, with its own capital and a new political system. It was an incredible year that marked the start of democratic development in Norway and was known to many as a year of “miracles”.
Moss is an important historical place in Norway. The Convention of Moss was a cease fire agreement, signed on August 14 1814, between the Swedish King and the Norwegian government and this is why we will celebrate
specially on that day.
Would you like to learn some words in Norwegian?
Thank you = Takk # Verden = World Hello = Hallo /Hei # Goodbye = Ha det Child = Barn # Fred = Peace Today = I dag # Tomorrow = I Morgen Left = Venstre # Right = Høyre I love you = Jeg eLsker deg Friend = Venn # Sea = Sjø (ask someone to tell you how to pronounce this!)
General information The campus is situated at Strandpromenaden 173, 1516 Moss. Arrivals are set on Tuesday 12th August as from 13.00. The programme will end after breakfast anytime on Saturday 16th August. Upon arrival, you will be given your room key and will be attributed randomly one or two room mates. You will receive a T-shirt with our logo, a bag with different materials and a lanyard with the main programme which we kindly ask you to wear at all times - specially when outside of the campus. Please note that to get in certain public events, like for example the concert in Moss on Wednesday evening, you will absolutely need to show your lanyard to get in.
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Food will be provided all through the program (breakfast, lunch, dinner). We will also provide water/fruits/snacks throughout the days. Please let us know if you have any allergy or dietary restriction. Note that there will be no pork served. Breakfast will be served every morning from 7.30 to 9.00. Every day you will be assigned in a different group. Ask your leader in the evening to be sure you are up on time!
COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING: Cuba, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Israel/Palestine, Guatemala, Norway, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, USA
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SPEAKERS/guests/FACILITATORS: HRH Crown Prince haakon, Ahmad Amer, Andres Armas, Garba Diallo, Marit Elverland, Synøve Faldalen, Johan Galtung, Jeremy Gilley, Sarah Gough, ingri guren, Vera Maeder, Mette Røkke, Truls Øra, sarah camille osmudsen, Christiane Seehausen, Marco Elsafadi
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invited organisations: PEACE ONE DAY, NANSEN CENTER FOR PEACE AND DIALOGUE, Crossing Borders, Hello!Earth, Play for Peace, Sabona, Norwegian Refugee Council, Sadaka Reut, Global dignity DAY
Youth & Action: Towards a New Generation for Peace - act III
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For any information, the seminar contact phone you can use is: (+47) 489 50 600. Please note that your group leader will be your prior contact person for all practical issues.
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Cultural activities Tuesday : Official opening ceremony with speeches, videos, music, games and other surprises! Wednesday : Concert by “Disaster of the Universe” - a Norwegian group coming to Moss to play for us! Thursday: BFV Street party + The Peace Speech with HRH Crown Prince Haakon, Jeremy Gilley and other VIP guests/ artists. Friday : A bus tour in 3 different cities of our region Spydeberg, Halden and Fredrikstad where very interesting people and fun activities will wait for us.
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Social medias We have created a (closed) group on Facebook for the participants/staff/volunteers and facilitators - we hope you have already joined it - in order to help us all to communicate in a direct/constant/efficient way. If you are not a member yet, just let us know, we will add you immediately. We also have an instagram account, tag your pictures with #bfv2014 If you have a blog and you think of posting your experiences or pictures during the peace seminar, we would be happy to get the info so we can share it within our network.
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International Peace Seminar for youth MOSS. 12 - 16 August 2014
Programme at a glance
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Tuesday 12 august 2014 16.00 PRESENTATION by Ingri Guren 16.30 THE GLOBAL PEACE VILLAGE (a series of Icebreakers) 19.00 Dinner 21.00 OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY with the Mayor of Moss TAGE PETTERSEN & guests.
Wednesday 13 august 2014
We are very happy to welcome you to this international peace seminar for youth celebrating this year the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian constitution signed in 1814. In the course of 5 days, you will have the chance to meet amazing and dedicated people like HRH Crown Prince Haakon, Jeremy Gilley from Peace One Day, Dr Johan Galtung, and Marco Elsafadi; you will make new friends from all over the world; you will learn more about peace, dialogue and conflict resolution; you will be invited to concerts, visit stunning places, and discover, if you don´t know already, how fun it can be to LEARN and BE with others! We wish you a fantastic seminar! Welcome to Norway! Welcome to Moss! Welcome to a new generation for Peace!
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10.00 JOHAN GALTUNG “Multicultural Capacity and Social Capital - the heritage from 1814” 11.00 Open debate 12.00 Lunch 14.00 Workshops on INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION 18.00 Collective round up with CHRISTIANE SEEHAUSEN 19.00 Visit of Konventionsgaard in Moss 20.00 CONCERT "Disaster of the Universe”
Thursday 14 august 2014 10.00 PEACE ONE DAY with JEREMY GILLEY 11.00 Lunch 12.00 GLOBAL DIGNITY DAY with MARCO ELSAFADI and HRH CROWN PRINCE HAAKON 15.00 STREET PARTY in Moss 16.30 PEACE SPEECH by HRH CROWN PRINCE HAAKON & JEREMY GILLEY 22.00 Free evening
Friday 15 august 2014 09.00 Day trip by bus EXPLORING ØSTFOLD in a day 22.00 FAREWELL PARTY
Moss Kommune (the municipality of Moss) in cooperation with Østfold Fylkeskommune (the County Council of Østfold) are this year the organisers of the 2014 seminar. The seminar is part of the celebration of the anniversary of the constitution. Barnas Fredsverden is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation with one main focus: to inspire children and youth to find new ways to manage conflicts so as to produce positive change. For the 3rd year, BFV presents the Peace Seminar for Youth and is very proud specially this year - to have invited some of the most engaged and honourable guests to facilitate workshops, give speeches, play games and meet the youth so as to inspire them with their work/ideas/tools. The mission of Global Dignity Day is to implement the universal right of every human being to lead a dignified life. Global Dignity Day is an international day where dignity is discussed and celebrated in high Crossing Borders is a nonprofit, non-governmental civil society organisation. Its mission is to create impartial dialogue space and to provide enabling capacity building for youth, media workers and educators to participate actively in the development processes of their societies.
Hello!earth is a non-profit arts association with base in Copenhagen, Denmark. Hello!earth offers workshops reaching from playful explorations to creating new meeting spaces/community events. Play for Peace® is a dynamic global learning community dedicated to connecting children youth and organizations from different communities in conflict (or not) through cooperative play to create laughter, compassion and peace. Their methodology is straightforward and effective; they train youth around the world to lead peace education and community-wide activities that are cooperative inclusive caring and fun. They are present in many countries around the world.
In 1999, Jeremy Gilley founded Peace One Day, a non-profit organisation which is at the origin of the UN resolution on a Peace Day celebrated all around the world on 21st September. Peace One Day has also helped thousands of medical workers vaccinate 4.5million children in Afghanistan and pursues its hard work to develop everywhere, possible or impossible, the biggest global reduction of SABONA has specialised in creating violence. t o o l s a n d re c i p e s t o a n a l y s e , T h e N o r w e g i a n R e f u g e e understand and solve conflicts.. C o u n c i l ( N R C ) i s a n Everyone is part of a conflict from time independent, humanitarian, non- to time. It is frustrating and sometimes p r o fi t , n o n - g o v e r n m e n t a l brings up anger or hatred. If you do organisation which provides not know how to handle the situation a s s i s t a n c e , p ro t e c t i o n a n d it is more likely to turn to violence. durable solutions to refugees and Sabona delivers the appropriate tools internally displaced persons to handle the conflicts. worldwide. The Nansen Center for Peace and Sadaka-Reut Arab-Jewish Dialogue is a organization using Youth Partnership educates and dialogue to build Bridges in divided empowers Jewish and Palestinian communities. NCPD tries to bring Israeli youth and university people together, creating spaces where students to pursue social and they can learn to talk to the "others" in political change through bi- a more open way. It also trains people in dialogue, communication and national partnership. conflict management.
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