Project group

The Teaching for Tolerance and Freedom of Religion or Belief (TTFRB) project was initiated by the Oslo Coalition as a follow-up to the 2001 Madrid Consultative Conference on School Education in Relation with Freedom of Religion or Belief. A project group is coordinating the activities in cooperation with the Oslo Coalition Secretariat, according to the Plan of Action that has been developed in dialogue with our international, interfaith and interdisciplinary project network. The Oslo Coalition Board has the overall budget responsibility for the project, and the Project Coordinator is reporting to the Oslo Coalition board.


TTFRB project group:

Bente Sandvig (project coordinator), Norwegian Humanist and Ethical Association

Oddbjørn Leirvik, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo

Lena Larsen, Oslo Coalition Co-ordinator

Knut Andreas Orgland Lid, Project Assistant at the Oslo Coalition

Signy Selaihi, teacher

Our international project network consists of:

Ingvill Thorson Plesner, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo / Iceland

Ms. Rosa Marìa Martìnez de Codes, University of Madrid, Spain

Mr. Robert Jackson, University of Warwick, UK

Mr. Peter Schreiner, Comenius Institut, Germany

Mr. Mohamed Chtatou, ISESCO, Morocco

Mr. Recep Kaymakcan, Sakarya Universitesi, Turkey

Ms. David Chidester, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Ms. Aisha Lemu, Islamic Education Trust, Nigeria

Ms. Dhyan Vermeulen, National Center for School Improvement, The Netherlands

Mr. Michael McNamara, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Poland

Mr. T. Jeremy Gunn, Emory University, USA

Mr. John B. Taylor, IARF, Switzerland

Mr. Michael Roan, The Tandem Project/University of Minnesota, USA

Ms. Rosalind Hacket, University of Tennessee, USA

Mr. Maurice Verfaillie, AIDLR France

Mr. Cole Durham, Brigham Young University, USA

Ms. Jolanta Ambrosevicz, Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland

Ms. Laila al-Zwaini, ISIM, The Netherlands

Mr. Geir Skeie, Høyskolen i Stavanger, Norway

The project group welcomes all responses and suggestions concerning the project plan of action, and information about as well as initiatives for co-operation with other partners and projects.
Please contact our Project Coordinator Bente Sandvig at: sandvig@human.no