:: Generation III

Virtual lecturers:

"NANSEN DIALOGUE" - Lesson I

Steinar BRYN Date, place of birth: 21 August 1954, Oslo, Norway Nationality: Norwegian Address: Bekkefaret 8, 2613 Lillehammer, Norway Present position: Project director of “Dialogue and Peacebuilding” At the Nansen Academy, Lillehammer; Senior Consultant "Nansen Dialogue Network; Lecturer and dialogue facilitator Social status: Married. Four children. Education: Ph.D American Studies, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, 1993 Curent occupation: 1996- ongoing Project director of “Dialogue and Peacebuilding.”; 1999- ongoing Senior Consultant “Nansen Dialogue Network”; 2004 spring Visiting professor in "Conflict and Communication", Pacific Luteran University, Tacoma, Washington. As a project director for “Dialogue and Peacebuilding” my responsibilities have been 1) to select participants (potential leaders) from former Yugoslavia to participate in training programs in Norway, 2) to design the training program and 3) to conduct the seminars. The challenging part of the job has been the follow-up work, which includes dialogue seminars in the region, the establishment of ten Nansen Dialogue Centers in Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, Bosnia Herzegovina and Croatia. As Senior Project Consultant - During the years 1997-2005 I have conducted more than 100 dialogue seminars, mainly between Serbs and Albanians from Kosovo and South Serbia, between Macedonians and Albanians from Macedonia, more general dialogue seminars in Montenegro and Bosnia Herzegovina., but also joint seminars with larger groups – including seminars in Betlehem and Jerusalem with Israelis, Arabs and Palestinians. Extensive lists of publications and lectures at conferences in Europe and the United States. Visiting lecturer at University of Texas, Austin, University of Washington, Seattle, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Amherst University, Massachussets, Columbia University, New York, Concordia College, Fargo, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, St.Olaf College, Minnesota, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, North Dakota. AWARDS: 1998 The Nansen Academy received the Honourable Mention of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education, in recognition of its outstanding contribution to the promotion of peace and tolerance. 1999 Received Amalie Laksow’s Human Rights Prize 2004 Bridgebuilder Prize for 2004.

"TOLERANCE" - Lesson II

Boris RAONIĆ is from Podgorica. He is educating on Law faculty in Podgorica, Department of International Law. During his studies he was engaged in a work of numerous NGOs and he founded few of them. Extensive working experience as a journalist and correspondent in Montenegrin medias (“Vijesti, “Juventas”, “Zid”, “IQ”, “Liberal”, “Montenegro Tribune”, “Free Montenegro”, www.montenegro.com), for five years. Boris is active in Nansen Dialogue Centre - Montenegro as coordinator from May 2000. He is one of its founders. He participated in great number of seminars that were aimed on education for future work in political parties and NGO-s. He took part in the IX group of Nansen academy in Lillehammer, in the program “Democracy, Human Rights and Peaceful Conflict Resolution” and finished number of training for trainers. He was working as facilitator on workshops in organization of number of international and non governmental organizations. He is married and father of Teodora.

"NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION" - Lesson III

Zorica RAŽIĆ was born in Belgrade. She is psychologist. Has been involved in Yugoslav debate program since the very beginning in 1994. Since 2001 she has been a debate program coordinator and vice president of high school debate NGO (ACCD) She has worked in 22 summer camps for high school and university students. Lecturer in Public Relation Agency since 1995 (communication skills) Lecturer in Smart Communication from 1996 to 1997 Worked with refugees from 1996 to 1997. Worked with Roma adolescents in 1999. Lecturer and staff member at Catholic University of America in Washington D.C –July 2003, and Wake Forest University – July 2004 (South East Europe Youth Leadership Institute, SEEYLI) Has been a lecturer in Nansen School of communication, since October 2003.

" CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION" - Lesson IV

Vesna MATOVIĆ Education Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology Belgrade, Yugoslavia Postgraduate studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Belgrade, FRY Master degree thesis: “Empirical study of relationship between personality and intelligence”. Specialization in Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, FRY; Specialist in Medical Psychology Professional experience Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Psychology, Belgrade Psychological counseling center, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade Institute of Psychiatry, Clinical Center of Serbia; Belgrade Counseling Center for Individuals and Families Endangered by War International Aid Network (NGO) Trauma Center Program for Psychological Help Belgrade Nansen Center (project coordinator) working as a trainer in conflict transformation field, dialogue between parties in conflict, education in peace building and human rights; Education in conflict transformation field Democracy, Human Rights and peaceful Conflict Resolution, Nansenskolen, Lillehammer, Norway Working with Conflict course, RTC, Birmingham, UK Visiting tutor on WWC course, RTC, Birmingham, UK International trainer on WWC course, RTC, Birmingham, UK Trainer in conflict resolution field, facilitator on seminars and courses with different target groups including NGO workers, local, regional and national politicians.

"CONFLICT ANALYSIS" - Lesson V

Elton SKENDAJ E-Mail : elton_top@yahoo.com Education : Cornell University, PhD Expected 2010. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, (2000 – 2001)Master of Arts in International Peace Studies. GPA: 3.71 / 4.00. American University in Bulgaria (AUBG) (1996-2000) B.A. (CUM LAUDE). Acc. GPA: 3.64 / 4.00. Major: Political Science/International Relations Minors: a) Economics, b) Philosophy Work Experience · Founder and executive director of the Center for Peace and Disarmament Education (CPDE), Tirana, Albania, http://www.cpde.net (August 2003-present) · National Project Coordinator for the joint project between UN Department for Disarmament Affairs and Hague Appeal for Peace on “Peace and Disarmament Education to Disarm Children and Youth”. http://www.cpde.net. Tirana, Albania. (July 2002-February 2005.) · National Focal Point of the “The Balkan Regional Conference on Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding” · In-country-project partner for the joint project between UN Department for Disarmament Affairs and Hague Appeal for Peace on “Developing Peace and Disarmament Education Initiatives to Disarm Children and Youth”. Tirana, Albania. (February-June 2002) · Researcher and co-author of the final report on Social and Economic Assessment of the UNDP “Weapons for Development Project,” Tirane, Albania. (October-December 2001) · Researcher at the Albanian Institute for International Studies (September-December 2002) Teaching Experience · Adjunct Faculty lecturer at the University of New York in Tirana at the International Relations Department. (September 2004-June 2005) · Junior Faculty Lecturer at the University of Tirana, Faculty of History, Department of Journalism Teaching the course on “Introduction to Political Science” (September 2004-June 2005) · Lead Lecturer / Trainer for the Open Society Institute course on “Academic Writing” organized in all the six public universities in Albania (August 2004-December 2005) · Junior Faculty Lecturer at the University of Tirana, Faculty of Social Sciences . Taught courses of “Conflict Resolution”, and “Political Philosophy”. Member of the steering group on the Bologna reform at the Faculty level. (January 2002-June 2004) · Teaching Assistant to professor George Lopez at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Publications · Together in Peace: Peace education Youth Manual —book in Albanian. Co-author and producer, Centre for Peace and Disarmament Education, Tirana, Albania, (January 2005) · “Disarmament through TV: Peace Education in Albania” article published at the UN Chronicle, Volume XL1, issue no 3 September-November 4, New York, 2004. http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2004/issue3/0304p59.asp · “Youth Democracy in Action”. Published in the Democratic Education Bulletin, (in Albanian) Institute for Pedagogical Studies, Tirana, Albania. (June 2004) · “Peace and Disarmament Education in Albania” Kakanien Revisited online resource http://www.kakanien.ac.at/beitr/materialien/ESkendaj1.pdf (November 2004) Awards ·Honour of town award from Gramsh municipality for working on peace and disarmament education in schools and community. (March 2005) · Awarded a certificate of appreciation and recognition by the UN Department for Disarmament Affairs and the Hague Appeal for Peace for the leadership role in Albanian peace education project. (February 2005) · Academic Fellowship Program , Open Society Institute for assisting the department of Journalism and Communication at the University of Tirana (August 2004-June 2005) · Civic Education Project Fellowship for teaching and promoting civic education values at the University of Tirana, (August 2003-June 2004) · Awarded fullmerit-based scholarships to pursue undergraduate degree from the American University in Bulgaria and graduate degree from the University of Notre Dame. (1996-2001) · Champion of National Math Olympiads: (Tirana 1995; 1996). · Representative of Albania in International Math Olympiads: (Bulgaria 1995; Romania 1996; India 1996). · Winner of National Youth Literature Contest. (Tirana, Albania, 1996).

"HUMAN RIGHTS"- Lesson VI

Enver DJULIMAN was born on 11 January 1959, in Mostar. He finished the Faculty of Law 1983, in Sarajevo and the studies of intercultural understanding at the University in Oslo, 2002. He works as a chief of the department for education of the Helsinki committee for Human Rights of Norway, Oslo. In 2000 he published the book “Difficult Reconciliation” and in 2002 “Introduction to Human Rights”. He writes for Norwegian daily newspapers Aftenposten, Dagbladet, VG and Klassekampen. In 2003 he received Blans Mayor award for his work on reconciliation.

"RECONCILIATION" - Lesson VII

Erik CLEVEN was born in the United States in 1965. He received a BA from St. Olaf College in Minnesota in 1987 and a MSc from the University of Oslo in 1992. For the last 11 years he has been involved in dialogue and peacebuilding work and has held seminars on peacebuilding, conflict management and human rights in Russia, the North Caucasus, Ukraine, Belarus, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Great Britain, Denmark and the United States. He has led a project to facilitate dialogue between Chechen and Russian civil society actors and has also been involved in interethnic dialogue work in the former Yugoslavia. In the last two years he has been lecturing in peace studies in colleges and universities in Norway and the United States and was in 2004 and 2005 Kloeck-Jensen Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College. He is based at Nansenskolen in Lillehammer, Norway, where he lives with his wife and four children.

THE ROLE OF MEDIA IN CONFLICTS " - Lesson VIII

Aleksandar TRIFUNOVIĆ Lives in Banjaluka, citizenship BiH Formal Education: 1999 Undergraduate student at the Faculty of Law; Experience: 1995-1997 Vice president at the Student’s Association of the Faculty of Law, Manager for External affairs at the Student’s Association of the Faculty of Law; member of the Executive board at the University Student’s Association; December 1997- July 2000 Editor in chief of Student’s Magazine BUM; March 1998 Elected for the first President of the Youth Forum of the Republika Srpska, which gathered the majority of youth organisations in the country; 1999-2000 Through the magazine actively supporting alternative student’s movements in Serbia fighting against the regime. In cooperation with OTPOR releases special issues dedicated to situation in Serbia for Yugoslav market. 1999 Editor and host of Talk Show named Horizonti (Horizons) at Nezavisna TV Banja Luka; nearly 20 Shows dedicated to addressing problems of the young with active participation of various experts in different fields. 1998-2000 Correspondent of student’s magazine Revolt, Zagreb, Croatia; Author and organizer of election campaign in towns of RS for encouraging young people to vote at the elections named Come and Vote; July 2000 Due to constant verbal clashes with representatives of the official University Student’s Association triggered by our support to campaigns against the regime in Serbia leaves student’s magazine BUM; September 2000 Along with a group of enthusiasts establishes organisation named Center for Informative Decontamination of Youth CID. September 2000 - present Within the CID establishes the BUKA Magazine Editor in chief ( http://www.6yka.com) September 2001 - author and TV host of the Talk Show BUKA on Alternativna TV, regional TV show January 2003 – program coordinator in Nansen Dialog Centar Banjaluka Author of the workshop “How to Make a Cheap Media Product” for seminars in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Lecturer and moderator on many seminars and public discussions regarding media and civil society organized by OSCE, Thompson Foundation, OHR, Friedrich-Ebbert-Stiftung, Nansen Dialog Centre, Helsinki Citizen Assembly, National Democratic Institute, ... Participant of many journalism seminars organized by foreign organizations. Organizator of many concerts and live performances. I am rather familiar with the political situation in the country and region. Besides articles that I am writing for the Magazine and hosting at the TV Show, my knowledge is based upon numerous conversations with renowned and some of the leading politicians in the country and wider including: Ms Biljana Plavsic, former President of the Republika Srpska; Zoran Djindjic, Serbian Prime Minister; Mladen Ivanic RS Prime Minister; Milan Protic former Yugoslav Ambassador in Washington; Rajko Tomas, special economy advisor in Biljana Plavsic’s cabinet; Zivko Radisic, Member of Joint Presidency of BiH; Joseph Ingram, Resident President of the World Bank in BiH; Miroljub Labus Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister, Robert Beecroft, Ambassador, Head of Mission OSCE in BiH, Zlatko Lagumdzija, president SDP, Dragan Cavic, president of Republika Srpska... Member of MENSA. Interests: Writing, books, wine, travel, music...

"DEMOCRACY" - Lesson IX

Žarko PUHOVSKI Born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 1946. After studies in Zagreb (physics and political sciences) and Frankfurt (philosophy) he was an assistant and then professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin. Visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin, European University center for Peace Studies in Stadtschlaining (Austria) and at the University of Klagenfurt; occasional lectures at universities in Berlin, London, Oxford, Budapest, Madrid, Bologna, etc. Member of the Transcend network, of Advisory Panel of The European Journal of Philosophy and of the Standing committee on intersocietal relations of the Ethikon Institute, Los Angeles. Was awarded the European Club of Rectors Extraordinary Award for Peace and against Xenophobia 1993. Author of numerous studies and essays and seven books (Interest and Community, 1975; Context of Culture, 1979; History and Revolution, 1980; Reason and Society, 1989; Socialist Construction of Reality, 1990; Dictionary of Basic Political Terms, 1990; Politics and Economy of Transition, 1993). Numerous articles on these items and problems connected with the post-communist transition and the post-Yugoslav wars were printed in English and German. Žarko Puhovski was co-founder of the first alternative political movement in former Yugoslavia in the year 1988, and of the Croatian Helsinki Committee for human rights in 1993.

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