Upcoming online event
Three Part Webinar Series: Making a Citizen – Exploring the Relationship Between National Identity and Citizenship
23rd May, 30th May, 4th June 2024
14:00 – 16:00 CET / @ Zoom
Upcoming online event
Interfaith Short Film Festival and Expert Panel
7th of December 2021
10 am CET / @ Zoom
Past events
International conferences, webinars and workshops organized by the Minority Network and partners as part of the project “Inclusive Citizenship and Human Rights”:
2021
International webinar
Living together – International Short Film Launch
9 June 2021
International launch of new short films on interfaith understanding produced by partners in IndonesiaFernand de Varennes
Speakers
Risdo Simangunsong
Interfaith Activist
Jakatarub, Indonesia
Fernando Sihotang
Human Rights and Advocacy Coordinator
National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation, Indonesia
Samrawit Gougsa
Communications Officer at Minority Rights Group International
United Kingdom
Putu Eka Guna Yasa
Director of BASAbali Wiki, Indonesia
Dr. Ingvill Thorson Plesner
Researcher and Project Manager
Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies (HL-senteret)
Inclusive Citizenship Project
Moderator
Rev. Dr. Sivin Kit, Program Executive for Public Theology and Interreligious Relations
The Lutheran World Federation, Switzerland
2020
International webinar
Starvation as a method of war and vulnerable communities in Syria and Yemen
7 December 2020
In connection with the Nobel Peace Prize award 2020 to the World Food Program (WFP) and in preparation for Norway taking up a seat at the UN Security Council in January of 2021, the Minority Network at the Norwegian Centre for Holocaust and Minority-studies (HL-senteret) and the Norwegian Academy of International Law (NAIL) co-organized an international expert webinar on starvation as a weapon of war.
The webinar brought together international experts to discuss the return of starvation as a method of war in Yemen and Syria. The objective was to compare how deliberate strategies to deprive food disproportionately affect vulnerable communities in the in Syria and Yemen, and to discuss measures available to address prevention, enforcement and accountability in order to bring this scourge of war to a halt.
2019
International workshops
The right of linguistic minorities in education
Inter-faith understanding and dialogue
Organized in collaboration with Norwegian Church Aid’s Dohuk office as local partner, and with cooperation from local Yazidi activists in recruiting participants. Among the participants were Christian, Muslim, Yazidi, Kakei and Sabaean Mandaean youth.
Rights of children born on genocidel rape
Hate speech and incitement to violence against minorities
Introduction by the UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues. Main focus of the round-table discussion was on hate speech in social media.
Minorities and statelessness
International conferences
Mass atrocities, prevention and punishment: Lessons learned from the Yazidi and Rohingya cases
Bigotry and Hate: Local and global perspectives
Oslo, Norway, HL-senteret / 2 – 13 December 2019
2018
International workshops / panel discussions
National identity and inclusive citizenship in Myanmar
Inclusive citizenship and rights of linguistic minorities in education
National identity and inclusive citizenship in South East Asia
Bangkok, Mahidol University, Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies / 14 February 2018
Inclusive citizenship in education
Belgrade, Serbia / 3 May 2018
In cooperation with Helsinki Committee
Prevention of mass atrocities against minorities in the Middle East / Northern Africa
Oslo, HL-senteret / 17 June 2018
Prevention of mass atrocities against minorities -and inclusive education
Tunis, Tunisia / 1 October 2018
In cooperation with Minority Rights Group
Inclusive Citizenship and Minority Rights in South East Asia
Manila, Philippines / 4 – 6 October 2018
Research panel organised by the Minority Network at the SEAHRN Fifth International Conference on Human Rights and Peace & Conflict
International conferences
Human Rights and Inclusive Citizenship: Conditions for co-existence in conflict ridden societies
Oslo, Norway, Nobel Institute and the Fritt Ord Foundation / 17-18 June 2018
Organizer was the Minority Network/Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies in cooperation with Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.
Genocide on the Yazidi people: The role of documentation
Organised by the Minority Network at the HL-senteret together with Norwegian Peoples Aid, Norwegian Church Aid, Stefanus Alliance, the Yazidi Cultural House in Norway and other CSO partners and scholars affiliated with the network. More than half of the over 100 participants at the conference were Yazidi.
2017
International workshops
National identity, citizenship and minority rights
Oslo, Norway, HL-senteret / 1 December 2017, 09.00 am – 12.30 pm
Inclusive citizenship and rights of linguistic minorities in education
Oslo, Norway, HL-senteret / 1 December 2017, 13.30 pm – 15.30 pm