Since the riots in 2019 in Chile, Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue has worked for dialogue, with two main goals: to convey knowledge about dialogue and to create meeting places for dialogue. Nineteen universities are now preparing their own national network for knowledge and research on dialogue. Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue has also contributed with dialogue knowledge in Peru, Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela.

Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue collaborates with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to use dialogue in the work for the rights of minorities and refugees. The goal is to contribute to more tolerant local communities.

Decades of war and conflict have reinforced the lack of trust in Afghan local communities. Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue has developed a method aimed at creating peace from the ground up, starting with families and local communities at the grassroots level.

On the occasion of Poland’s 100th anniversary, Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue collaborated with the telecom company Orange Poland to strengthen capacity building and dialogue training in the country. The goal was to provide civil society actors with skills, tools, and practice to support their work in fostering social attitudes, cooperation, and social capital.

In Iraq, Kurdish women fight a daily battle to take up more space in a male-dominated society. The organization People’s Development Organization (PDO) is focusing on getting more women into leadership roles – with strong support from the peace center’s dialogue method.