Archive for February, 2012

  • Feb
  • 23
  • 2012

IPB On-line Course — Disarmament for Development

Posted by Fredsrad In Uncategorized |

The new on-line course focus­sing on the Inter­na­tio­nal Peace Bureau ’s main area of work (Dis­ar­ma­ment for Devel­op­ment) will now run from 27 March — 27 July 2012.

If you have colle­agues, fri­ends, stu­dents or other conatcts who you think could be inte­re­sted in pati­ci­pa­ting as on-line stu­dents, please encourage them to explore the infor­ma­tion online at: www.campusforpeace.org

No time to lose! This is an exci­ting opport­u­nity to learn, share ideas and expe­ri­en­ces and con­tri­bute to this growing pro­gramme to change pub­lic priori­ties away from war and towards a human-security perspective. 

It is run by IPB and the Open Uni­ver­sity of Cata­lo­nia. It will be open to adult stu­dents (uni­ver­sity level) from any part of the world. Lan­guage: Eng­lish.  6 cre­dits, 150 hours. Course details at: http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/campus_pau/formacio/ong/list.html

 

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  • Feb
  • 10
  • 2012

Sweden Investigates Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Posted by Fredsrad In Uncategorized |


Läns­sty­rel­sen in Stock­holm, which super­vi­ses the Nobel Prize, are investi­ga­ting the Nobel Com­mittee in Nor­way, led by for­mer prime minis­ter and Par­lia­ment Pre­si­dent Thor­bjørn Jag­land. The accu­sa­tions claim that the Nobel Com­mittee has been to NATO-friendly in their choice of laureates.

The Hono­rary Pre­si­dent of the Nor­we­gian Peace Coun­cil and lawyer, Fre­de­rick S. Hef­fermehl gives cri­ti­cism to the läns­sty­rel­sen in Stock­holm who has pressed the Swedish Nobel Foun­da­tion to make a state­ment on the mat­ter. Hef­femehl points out that the award to for­mer U.S. Secre­tary of State Henry Kis­sin­ger in 1973 and Barack Obama in 2009,  who had  recently been install as U.S. pre­si­dent. Hef­fermehl, who has led the cri­ti­cism and writ­ten a book on the sub­ject, belie­ves that there is no doubt that the com­mittee has gone far beyond what was Alfred Nobel’s inten­tion with the price.

The Nor­we­gian Nobel Insti­tute and the Nor­we­gian Nobel Com­mittee secre­tary said that they are get­ting access to the nee­ded docu­ments in order for them to com­ment on the alle­ga­tions, but they said that they have not vio­la­ted Alfred Nobel’s will.

 

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