Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue NCPD
The NCPD is a knowledge centre and meeting point for dialogue and conflict transformation. The centre provides training courses and facilitates dialogue. NCPD promotes peace, human rights, dialogue and reconciliation through training courses, documentation and sharing knowledge based on field experiences. The centre conducts peace and dialogue work both in Norway and internationally and has been active in Western Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Poland, and more. In Norway, the centre cooperates with schools, municipalities, cultural and religious organisations, museums, colleges and universities.
By facilitating dialogue in divided communities, NCPD helps build bridges across ethnic, cultural, political and social divides. Experience proves that targeted efforts are required overtime to develop strategies and tools for preventing, managing and transforming conflicts. The centre is located at the Nansen Academy in Lillehammer, Norway.
Empirische Medienforschung und politische Kommunikation EPMK
The research group EMPK deals with (public) communication about socially relevant problems like climate change, energy turn, migration, corona crises, and digitalisation in education. The focus of the research group lies in the investigation of reception (media use and media effects) as well as on the analysis of the media content related to these phenomena.
As such, the research group analyses these foci with broad methodological expertise, such as representative panel-surveys, qualitative and quantitative content analysis and qualitative interviews.
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International Student Festival in Trondheim ISFiT
ISFiT is the world’s largest international student festival, taking place every alternate year in February in Trondheim, Norway. It has been organised every second year since 1990, gathering students from all over the world for ten days of dialogue, cultural events, workshops and more. The next festival takes place in February 2021, and will invite students from different backgrounds to discuss the theme “Creating Knowledge”.
The Dialogue Group at ISFiT is organised as a separate section to enable and facilitate dialogue on diverse and important topics. Since 1997, the Dialogue Group has facilitated dialogue seminars with students from different parts of the world, including South Africa, Guatemala and the Balkans.
