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Fall 2005: 10-12 November, 2005, the Oslo Coalition held a workshop on Teaching for Tolerance in Istanbul, together with the Center for Values Education which hosted the workshop. The workshop brought together more than 20 experts from Bosnia, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Lebanon, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Switzerland and Turkey > more information New publications in the series Oslo Coalition Occasional Papers:
Fall 2004: Honorable Mention by UNESCO: The Oslo Coalition receives Honorable Mention of the UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education (2004) Global meeting of experts, September: Under the heading “Teaching for tolerance, recognition and respect in relation with freedom of religion or belief”, the Oslo Coalition in cooperation with UNESCO hosted a global meeting of experts in September. 60 researchers, educators and teachers from South Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America took part. The global meeting focused on pedagogical implementation of the recommendations from the UN conference in Madrid in 2001, examining both obstacles and possibilities for teaching tolerance, recognition and respect in various school subjects and national contexts. More information is available from the conference link on the main page of the project. The writing contest: In connection with the global meeting, the result of the youth and student contest on "Writing Stories about Tolerance" was announced. The writing contest inspired many young writers from different parts of the world and national contests were held in Nigeria and Indonesia. In the international competition, in which UNESCO's school network was the most important channel, a panel of experts evaluated more than one hundred and fifty stories. In the final round, three winning stories were selected: “The Reconciliation”, “Our Gods are so great” and “The Lost Fairy”. The winning stories are available online. Together with these three, another 15 stories have also been printed in a booklet entitled “Stories on Tolerance” (ed. Ingvill Thorson Plesner, The Oslo Coalition) The web-pages: The project’s
web-site continue to be expanded. During the last year, web-pages
with “News, reports and articles about (in)tolerance education”
have been developed and are being updated continually. The current
webpage about “Models and methods for tolerance education”
will be split into two pages: one about models and pedagogical approaches
in relation with different topics and school subjects (religion
education, dialogue training, history education, human rights education
etc.), and another with country reports and regional overviews.
In these web-pages, material from the September meeting of experts
(which is currently only available with log-in password for the
participants) will also be included. Fall 2003: The student
contest on "Writing Stories about Tolerance" has been
widely announced, and several international institutions working
on tolerance education have been invited to announce it within their
networks. June 2003: The Oslo Coalition
is proud to announce a World Wide Contest for Children and Youth
on writing stories about tolerance. For more information please
see: Competition May
2003: The participants of the Rabat meeting developed a draft plan of action for the project as a whole and outlined several sub-projects (see draft plan of action for further details): 1) The 2004
Madrid Implementation Conference The plan of action will be presented for the Oslo Coalition Board in June who will have a final say on the administrative and financial consequences and follow-up of the sub-project. The participants at the Rabat meeting also stated their interests in following up on the different sub-projects. All those who have taken part in the Oslo and/or Rabat meeting will soon receive a letter of information about the outcome of the Rabat meeting and the further proceedings.
Participants, Rabat
meeting. Visit to ISESCO April 2003: The report from
the December seminar The report was presented at an NGO seminar during the 59th session of the Commission on Human Rights. Others who would like to get hold of the report can contact the Oslo coalition secretariat.
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