Lecture series

We are proud to introduce this year's lecture series. The lecture series will run as parallel session to the workshops on Friday 8 September from 09.00 till 13.00

Updated  01 septiembre 2006.

Each lecture will be given twice, so that the participants not attending the workshops will be able to attend all lectures. The participants attending the workshops will be able to choose two lectures from the four lectures given.

 

Lectures

 

The Role of Civil Society in Peace Building

By Mr. Vasu Gounden

 

Dr. Vasu Gounden from South Africa. is an expert in conflict resolution and works as a mediator, trainer and researcher. He is also the founder and Executive Director of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD).He has been appointed to numerous national and international commisions, boards and positions regarding peace and conflict issues. 

 

To read more about Vasu Gounden click here.

 

 

The Role of Women in Peace Building

By Dr. Elisabeth Rehn

 

Dr. Elisabeth Rehn has served as Finland's first female Minister of Defence, Minister of Equality Affairs and Member of the European Parliament. Ms. Rehn has also been a presidential candidate, and was only narrowly defeated in 1994.

Ms. Rehn has served as UN Under-Secretary General and the she was the UN Special Rapporteur for the Situation of Human Rights during the war on the Balkans.

 

In cooperation with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf she wrote the UN report

Women, War and Peace: The Independent Experts’ Assessment on the Impact of Armed
Conflict on Women and Women’s Role in Peace-building  

 

To read more about Elisabeth Rehn click here.

 

 

The Integration of Ethics in Military and Business Settings

By Dr. Henrik Syse

 

Dr. Henrik Syse is known as one of the most eloquent speakers in Norwegian social science. He is working part time as a senior researcher at The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and Head of Corporate Governance at Norges Bank (Norwegian Central Bank) Investment Management, where he will ouline the ethical criteria in the Bank's investment management, incl. the petroleum fund investments.

 

Mr. Syse has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at The University of Oslo, and has also been the Chief Editor of the Norwegian political Journal "Tidens Tegn"

 

To read more about Henrik Syse click here.

 

 

My jihad – Islamic Identity meets Western Urban Values

By Nazneen Khan-Østrem

 

Nazneen Khan-Østrem is a lecturer at Oslo University College, teaching journalism.

She has a master in International Relation at London School of Economics, and has worked several years as a journalist in newspapers, television and the Norwegian Press Buerau (NTB).

 

Ms. Khan Østrem is an active debattant in Norwegian media, and contributes by using her own background of being of Afghani origin, born in Kenya, and grown up in England and Norway.

 

She has written the book "Min hellige krig" (My jihaad), interviewing muslims in New York, London, Paris, Berlin and Oslo to find out whether there is a real conflict between Western Urban Values and an Islamic Identity.