Peace centre at University of Iceland opens

The Peace Centre is named after the historic Höfði house, …

The Peace Centre is named after the historic Höfði house, the location of the Reagan- Gorbachev meeting in 1986 Mbl.is/ Brynjar Gauti

The University of Iceland and the City of Reykjavik are launching HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre.  The opening seminar entitled Rethinking Peace and Power will take place between 13:00 and 17:30 in the Ceremonial Hall of the University of Iceland on October 7th. 

The objective of the opening of HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre at the University of Iceland is to support Reykjavik in its mission of becoming a city of peace, and to advise on how Reykjavik can promote peace at home and abroad. The Peace Centre will promote non-violent communications, the eradication of interpersonal violence and peaceful relations between states and organizations. Additionally, it will promote peace through research and education.

Additionally, it will promote peace through research and education. Steve Killelea, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Institute for Economics and Peace and author of the Global Peace Index and Annika Bergman Rosamond, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, will give the keynote addresses. Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland, Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Dagur B. Eggertsson, Mayor of the City of Reykjavik, will address the seminar. 

Amongst other speakers are Michele Acuto, Professor in Diplomacy and Urban Theory at University College London, Melanie Greenberg, President and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, the renowned film Director, Darren Aronofsky and Syrian documentarist Obaidah Zytoon.


Further information:
The Institute of International Affairs´s website www.iia.hi.is
HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre´s Facebook page www.facebook.com/ReykjavikPeaceCentre


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The University of Iceland. Mbl.is/ Ómar Óskarsson

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