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| Center for marriage and cohabitation |
| Courses and councelling for couples. The website is in Norwegian. |
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| http://www.samlivssenteret.no |
| info@samlivssenteret.no |
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| Centre for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management |
| Centre for conflict management in Oslo. Offers courses in several areas of conflict management and peace building.
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| http://www.ccm.no |
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| Conciliation Councils (Forliksrådet) |
| Forliksrådet (Conciliation Councils) have existed since 1795. They have changed during the years and is now both a judge and a mediator run by lay men. It deals with more than 200.000 cases a year of which most are about small debt. Web site only in Norwegian. |
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| DiaVett |
| DiaVett strongly emphasizes that students or participants are able to develop their professional knowledge and skills including awareness of values and interdisciplinary understanding. The students/participants are nurses, social workers, psychologists, clergy, child welfare workers, doctors etc. The majority of our courses are at a graduate level.
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| http://www.diakonhjemmet.no/diavett |
| nordhelle@diakonhjemmet.no |
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| Diversity and Dialogue |
| Educational programmes dealing with conflicts coming from prejudice and racism. |
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| http://www.mangfold.org |
| mod@npaid.org |
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| FAFO Institute for applied social studies |
| FAFO runs several research programmes among these The New Security Programme (NSP). NPS conducts research into the social conditions – both global and local - of insecurity, conflict and war. |
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| http://www.fafo.no/english/ |
| fafoais@fafo.no |
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| Family Guidance |
| The public offices for family guidance in Norway is spred around the country and works with therapy and mediation. The website is in Norwegian. |
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| http://www.familievern-ofo.no |
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| International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) |
| PRIO is an independent research institute that is international in terms of staff, audience and perspective. |
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| http://www.prio.no |
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| Learning and Childhood Environment |
| This is the site for Learning and Childhood Environment. Choose "In English" on the site and you will find available documents and news in english, that covers the three main commitments areas for the Learning and Childhood Environment; focus on problem behavior and good social skills, fokus on the physical environment for pupils, and focus on "democracy, values and participation".
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| http://lom.ls.no/ |
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| MEKON, Forum for Mediation and Conflict Management |
| Newly founded national organisation which want to gather those in Norway working with mediation and conflict management. |
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| http://www.mekon |
| mekon@online.no |
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| Nansen Dialog |
| Has offered courses in dialogue and democracy between different ethnic groupes in Balkan since 1995. 8 dialogue centres are established in the former Yugoslavia today. |
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| http://www.nansen-dialog.net |
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| Narvik Peace Foundation |
| Narvik Peace Foundation was founded on September 1st 1990 and is an independent foundation. The idea of establishing a peace foundation in Narvik was first presented at a meeting between the then Foreign Secretary Thorvald Stoltenberg and the former Yugoslavian war prisoner Milutin Tomanovic.
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| http://www.fred.no |
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| Norwegian Christian Council (Decade against violence) |
| Norwegian Christian Council participate in World Council of Churches decade against violence. Website only in Norwegian |
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| http://www.norgeskristnerad.org |
| nkr@ekumenikk.org |
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| Norwegian Church Aid |
| Norwegian Church Aid is one of the biggest development aid organisations in Norway. Has been involved in peace mediation in several war and conflict zones. Focus on fighting violence. |
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| http://www.nca.no |
| webmaster@nca.no |
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| Norwegian Institute of International Affairs NUPI |
| With more than 40 years of experience, NUPI is one of Norway’s leading independent centres for research and information on political and economic issues. NUPI runs projects in peace education in Africa and several research projects on peace and security.
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| http://www.nupi.no |
| info@nupi.no |
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| Norwegian Red Cross |
| Red Cross Norway works according to the principles of the International Red Cross League. It has specific projects to counter violence in Norway and an international center for integration of immigrant youth. |
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| http://www.redcross.no/article.asp?ArticleID=2000179&Leftmenu=inter_eng_main&Rank=1 |
| webredaktor@redcross.no |
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| Norwegian Work Research Institute |
| Norwegian Work Research Institute has a programme which includes resaerch on conflict mangement in work places. Some of the researchers have also been used as mediators in conflicts at work places. |
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| http://www.afi-wri.no |
| AFI@afi-wri.no |
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| Peace eductaion |
| Page with suggestions for educational programmes in peace builfing and conflict management. Only in Norwegian. |
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| http://www.fredsundervisning.no |
| fredsundervisning@nowar.no |
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| Peace Platform |
| The goal of the Peace Platform is to promote the role of the church as an advocate for peace. This is done by stimulating Norwegian churches and church-based organisations to collaborate and intensify their ecumenical, peace-enhancing activities world-wide.
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| http://www.peaceplatform.no |
| peace@ekumenikk.org |
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| Stiftelsen Arkivet |
| Institution in Kristiansand, consisting of several organisations. Documentation centre from World War II, and a furure oriented work on peacebuilding and conflict resolution. |
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| http://www.stiftelsen-arkivet.no |
| aslak.brekke@stiftelsen-arkivet.no |
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| Sudansupport |
| The Norwegian Support Group for Peace in the Sudan (SFS)
is responsible for this website.
On this website you will find an overrewiev of:
• Norwegian knowledge and activities in Sudan
• Facts about Sudan
• Background for an understanding of the conflicts in the country |
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| http://www.sudansupport.no/english_pages/index_e.html |
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| The Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromsø |
| The Centre for Peace Studies is a research and co-ordination project in Peace Studies at the University of Tromsø, Norway. The project is funded for the period 2002-2006. In the assignment letter from The Department it is stated that "the Centre is to establish new competence within the field of peace- and conflict-studies, and within such areas as ethnicity and democracy-building. The centre is to have a co-ordinating role for the field, both nationally and internationally".
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| http://www.peace.uit.no |
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| The Norwegian Conflict Councils |
| The official site of the Conflict Councils (Mediation Boards)of Norway. They mediate in around 7000 cases a year, partly criminal cases which is sent to them from the police and is an alternative to the court system, partly civil cases. The mediation is done by lay people and is organised to cove the whole country through 23 sercretariats. |
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| http://www.konfliktraadet.no |
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| The Norwegian Peace Alliance |
| The Norwegian Peace Alliance is a national umbrella organisation for 19 Norwegian peace NGOs, on a politically neutral basis working to promote peace, disarmament and conflict resolution without violence.
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| http://www.nowar.no/ |
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| TRANSCEND |
| A peace and development organisation for conflict transformation by peaceful means. Director is Johan Galtung. It is not based in any specific country, but functions as a worldwide network of activists. Transcend homepage offers analyses, courses and a net based University in peace education. |
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| http://www.transcend.org |
| transcend@transcend.org |
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| UDI - Interdisciplinary Councelling service |
| Utlendingsdirektoratet; Tverrfaglig veiledningstjeneste
Interdisciplinary Councelling for conflicts rooted in rascism, hostility towards immigrators and other intolerance. |
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| http://www.udi.no |
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| Wolf + Water Arts Company |
| Wolf and Water Arts Company is placed in Britain with a Norwegian office. It provides therapeutic and creative drama for several groups - including people living in conflict and war zones. |
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| http://www.wolfandwater.org |
| w+w@eclipse.co.uk |
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