Peace Studies - PeaceForum + WPS

The Peace Forum is a meeting place for students, both first and second year, enrolled in the Master's Degree Programme in Peace and Conflict Transformation (MPCT) and for other interested people at the University of Tromsų.

The Peace Forum will serve as a place for academically formal and informal discussions on a broad range of topics that are relevant to Peace Studies. On occasions, the presentations in Peace Forum will be complemented with Peace Film.

Time: To be announced

Place: Room U-06 or The Auditorium in Nedre Lysthus

Coordinator: Must be chosen among students

Monday 14.01.2008
Time: 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker: Efrat Ben-Zeev, Lecturer, Ruppin Academic Center and fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Efrat Ben-Zeev is also a jury member of the Norwegian Peace Film Award for Tromsų International Film Festival 2008: http://www.fredsfilmprisen.no
Topic: A Cartographic Imagination:
British Mandate Construction of Palestine. This topic relates to the 1948 Palestinian-Israeli war as described from different perspectives -- Jewish, Palestinian and British.
Place: Room U-06

Monday 28.01.2008
Time: 12:15
Speaker: Anna Bornstein, author and journalist. She has worked with the project "The Dream of Good", non-violence for children and youth: Drömmen om det goda. More information about her available here: Anna Bornstein
Topic: Peace and Non-violence in the School.
Place: Room U-06

Thursday 14.02.2008 Joint World Politics Seminar / Peace Forum
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker: Mr. Hisao Yamaguchi, Japan's Ambassador to Norway
Topic: Japan’s Foreign Policy Challenges: A Historical Perspective
Place: Auditorium, Lower Pavilion

Wednesday 02.04.2008
Time: 12:15 - 14:00
Topic: Stop the Wall (Palestinian grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign. For more information on the campaign & "Stop the Wall", check this website http://stopthewall.org/news/1.shtml
Place: U06, Lower Pavilion

Wednesday 30.04.2008
Time: 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker: Film screening by Programme Fellow Ingvild Flaskerud
Topic: Standard-bearers of Hussein. Women commemorating Karbala. Movie, 35 min. 2003.
The film introduces Iranian Shi´i women’s performances of commemoration rituals during Muharram and Safar. In parallel to men’s mourning ceremonies, women gather in gender-specific rituals in which they act as hosts, leaders, assistants, servants, lay participants, and financial supporters. The film narrative pursues the viewpoints of two lay-women who host rituals in their home, and that of a female ritual leader. The rituals are connected to and oriented toward the metahistorical dimension of the battle at Karbala in 680 A.D. The rituals can be profoundly spiritual, while at the same time connecting to social issues of contemporary Iran. In subtle ways, they resist the politisation of rituals typical of post-revolutionary Iran.
Place: Auditorium, Lower Pavilion