Peace Studies - PeaceForum + WPS

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

Fall 2007 Calendar

Thursday 11.15.2007 Students, Human Rights and Western-Sahara
Time: 12:15
Speakers: Rabab Amidane
Topic: Rabab is a 22 year old student from the territory of Western-Sahara, occuppied by Morocco. She studies in the University of Marrakech and is an activist in the work for human rights in Western-Sahara. She will tell us about the difficult situations she has encountered. She will be accompanied by a representative of the support committee to Western-Sahara. More information (in Norwegian):

http://www.vest-sahara.no/index.php?cat=83&art=427

http://www.vest-sahara.no/index.php?cat=1&art=560

http://www.vest-sahara.no/index.php?parse_news=single&cat=39&art=574

http://www.petitiononline.com/sahrawi/petition.html

Place: Auditorium, Nedre Lysthus

Monday 10.15.2007 Oil Resources, Multinationals and Development. A perspective from the South on Norwegian petroleum politics
Time: 12:15
Speakers: Stella Amadi, Head of Program, Centre for Democracy and Development in West Africa and Carlos Larrea, Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ecuador.
Topic: Can Statoil contribute to development? Why should Norway help poor countries keep their oil under the soil?
Place: Auditorium, Nedre Lysthus

Tuesday 09.11.2007
Time: 12:00
Speaker: Raquel Aparecida Pereira da Silva
Topic: Conflict Resolution and the Landless Workers' Movement (MST- Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra in Brazil)
Place: Room U-06, Nedre Lysthus
More Information: Raquel is 20 years old and a part of MST. She is from the settlement 1 de Junho in Tumiritinga, Minas Gerais. She is a member of the youth and activist schooling sector as a "brigade leader".