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Application Camp (23.-25. January)
In the weekend from the 23. to the 25. of January we were in Hosle Skole, Bærum at the application camp of the Oslo&Akershus Chapter, together with more than 80 ... -
"The Gifts Culture" Activity
We would like to share with you the activity we have created from scratch! "The Gifts Culture" is a fun and educational activity that looks closer at diversity in general ... -
CISV Norway is looking for 2 EVS volunteers!
CISV Norway is looking for 2 EVS volunteers to start in the Summer of 2014. Just click on the links above! Check our website or our blog for all the ... -
CISV Regional Training Forum in Hamburg, Germany
The RTF (Regional or Raining Training Forum) happened to be in Hamburg early October offering many different training. Besides Train the Trainers (TTT), IPP and Risk Management (RM), there was ... -
Peace House - CISV Norways`s home in Oslo
CISV Norway was one of the first foundations that were asked to "live" in Fredshuset, that is, the Peace House. Yes, we are important! :) -
Peace One Day: One Day Peace
21th Sept is Peace One Day, the international peace day!!! Naturally CISV Norway also prepared some programmes for this day. In many Norwegian cities different activities tried to engage and inform ... -
NEO 2012 - even more FUN after the summer
It was so great to meet and spend two days with CISVers who were active this summer! CISV has a lot of programmes during the ... -
Doing the shakey shakey song
EVS on-arrival training in Romarheim After 10 long and exhausting days in Romarheim and Bergen we are finally back in the office. -
Overlapping seminar
We are back from the one-week long EVS on-arrival training, thus have a lot to write about again! 🙂 Just before travelling there we had the chance to take part ... -
EVS on-arrival training in Romarheim
Tomorrow morning we are travelling to Romarheim to participate in the EVS on-arrival training. We are staying there next week too. Even though both of us have already travelled a ... -
MELA 2012 in Oslo
We arrived to Oslo only two weeks ago and we`ve already seen Haakon, the crown prince! Feeling really precious now... 🙂 We`ve even taken two photos of him, yes the ... -
Children's World Peace Seminar - Barnas Freds Verden
As you might have read at projects, we have been to a seminar in Moss organized by Barnas Freds Verden to hold a workshop about peace education and sustainable development. ... -
EVS arrival interview
CISV Norge: Why did you decide to become an EVS volunteer? Why at CISV? Andi: I always wanted to be an EVS volunteer for one year after finishing university to ... -
Tomorrow's Take!
Last weekend was the final weekend of the Tomorrow's Take project. We all met in Oslo for the weekend to do lots of filming and decide how the film will ... -
Tomorrow's Take!
Last weekend was the final weekend of the Tomorrow's Take project. We all met in Oslo for the weekend to do lots of filming and decide how the film will ... -
Barn av regnbuen/Children of the Rainbow
On April 26th 40,000 people gathered at Youngstorget to sing the song "Barn av regnbuen" (Children of the rainbow). Breivik, said in court last friday that he hates the Norwegian ... -
Landsmøtet 2012
The annual meeting this year went down in style in Stavanger, with over 70 people attending, including lots of juniors woo! We looked at the recent organisational review and elected ... -
European Junior Branch Meeting
The European Junior Branch Meeting (EJBM) is a gathering of young CISVers in Europe who meet to share ideas and plan on how to make Junior Branch bigger and better. ... -
National Junior Camp
My best staff experience yet has to be the National Junior Camp (NJC) over Easter. For 5 days 40 junior stayed together doing some of the best activities I have ... -
Earth Hour
The last Saturday in March at 8:30pm is a very special time across the world. It is when we are asked to turn off everything running on electricity for 1 ... -
Peace in Europe - EVS booklet
When I mention my job to other CISVers they had never heard about it, but after finding out they always say they would like to do something similar, so I ... -
Leadership Training
As the summer gets ever nearer, its time for all the leaders and JC's going away to camp this year to get training on CISV and how we work with ... -
The Peace House is open!
The 1st of March 2012 will go down in history as the day the first Norwegian Peace House opened officially! To celebrate the event we had an evening of live ... -
The end of growth?
"Une croissance illimitée dans un monde limité est une absurdité" Translation: "Unlimited growth in a limited world is absurd" (it sounds so much better in French) The "I have a ... -
EVS Midterm Seminar
Well, since it is the 14th, lets start with Happy Valentine's Day! But really this blog is about the EVS seminar which happened last week. All the EVS volunteers in ... -
Tomorrow´s Take Begins!
Last weekend was the first seminar of the Tomorrow's Take film project. Youth from Tromsø, Østfold, Vestfold, Oslo and Bergen all came together to be trained on how to use ... -
January Meeting woo!
Its that time of year again when all the committees must come together for a working weekend. Although we still managed to have lots of fun, especially with the new ... -
TED Talks – Who Listens? #6
To welcome in the new year I would like to share a video by Johan Rockstrom who talks about how human growth is draining the planet. However on a less ... -
Conflict & Resolution Highlights 2011
From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement, 2011 has certainly been a turbulent year. Maybe it will go down in history as the year when we finally said "enough ... -
Flash Book!
Last night in Oslo City we puzzled stressing Christmas shoppers by quietly reading a book about Dugnad - collective volunteer action. You can find out more about the book here. ... -
Membership magazine Q & A
I was asked to answer a few questions for the CISV Norway membership magazine that has just been released, so I thought I would share them here for people outside ... -
(Nuclear) War, what is it good for?
Last night I ran the penultimate Weapons of War seminar, with the theme of Nuclear Weapons. We started with a brief bit of history and some facts about the current ... -
Weapons of War
If you are lucky enough to live close enough to Oslo you are invited to attend a free course of 3 interactive seminars, open to all 18+, held at the ... -
Wanted: 2 EVS Volunteers!
CISV Norway is looking for 2 EVS volunteers to start in the Summer of 2012. Find out more about EVS here. Watch the video to find out why you should ... -
Practical Conflict Resolution
Recently I have been in Tromsø and Bergen giving practical training on conflict resolution. First we brainstormed about what a conflict is, defining conflict as "a situation where there are ... -
TED Talks – Who Listens? #5
The 5th TED Talks video featured here is by Thomas Barnett and is called "A new map for peace". Thomas Barnett, an international security strategist, presents a controversial yet simple ... -
TED Talks – Who Listens? #4 + The legacy of our actions
The 4th TED Talks video featured here is by Jody Williams and is called "A realistic vision for world peace". Jody, a Nobel Peace laureate, talks about her perception of ... -
The BIG Culture Project + My Pen!
We are currently applying for funding for a big project next year with the theme of sustainable development. The plan is to professionally train around 30 people aged 16-20, divided ... -
EVS On Arrival Seminar
As EVS are funding my time here in Norway on the 19th of September I took the train northwards to Trondheim (well, it was actually closer to Selbu where we ... -
Peace One Day!
As you may know the 21st of September is Peace One Day - an international day of ceasefire agreed upon by all UN member nations. 2011 saw the global countdown ... -
NEO Weekend
On the 16th-18th of September the Mango Team, Jenny, Hendrik, Pål Magnus and myself staffed a fantastic weekend for all the adults that had been away this summer (over 75 ... -
TED Talks – Who Listens? #3 + The Police
Well hello all, I have been absent for a while now so I have a number of posts to make, so please don't feel overloaded with information! I will keep ... -
Overlappingseminar
This weekend the Overlappingseminar was held in Bergen. All the committees and the executive board got together for an intense weekend of work: However we did have time to have ... -
TED Talks - Who Listens? #2
I'm back in Oslo after staffing the first ever Mosaic project in Great Britain! It was a fantastic experience and a hugely inspiring project for everyone involved. This weeks TED ... -
TED talks - who listens? #1
Welcome to the first "TED Talks - who listens?" blog post! Every week I shall be posting a relevant/interesting video from the TED website. TED videos are 18 minute (maximum) ... -
On your marks, get set, GO!
Well now its the start of my first full week working for CISV Norway. This week I will be starting to organise something for Peace One Day - an international ... -
Youth For Understanding
On Friday Eirik and I went to represent CISV at a camp of returning and just arrived exchange students organised by Youth For Understanding. We gave a small presentation of ... -
Peace Journalism
On the 10th of August (only my second day in Oslo!) André and I had a very early start to drive outsaide Oslo to an international camp run by a ...