Finn-Jarle Rode, Executive Chairman of The Oslo Center
Moderator: Jacqui Thornton, award-winning global health journalist
09:10 - 09:20
Welcome to Norway and Oslo
Anne Lindboe, Mayor of Oslo
Olemic Thommessen, Former President of the Parliament of Norway
09:20 - 10:25
What is hate speech and why is it a collective problem?
HE Dr. Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary General of the Muslim World League
The leaders’ perspective
Kjell Magne Bondevik, Former Prime Minister of Norway
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Former President of Croatia
Dr. Joyce Banda, Former President of the Republic of Malawi
Dr. Bernard Kouchner, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of France and Co-founder of Doctors Without Borders
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, speaking in the capacity as Secretary General of PEN Norway, the freedom of expression organization (Frydnes is also Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee)
10:25 - 10:45
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:35
What is hate speech and why is it a collective problem? The humanitarian and civil society perspective
Jagan Chapagain, Secretary General of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Pierre Krähenbühl,Director General of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (video speech)
Catharina Bu,Secretary General, UN Association of Norway
11:35 - 12:35
Lunch
12:35 - 12:55
The effects of cultural violence and hate in classrooms
Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, PhD Teachers College, Columbia University
12:55 - 13:15
How does online speech lead to offline harm?
Dr. Sebastian Schutte, Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO)
13:15 - 13:35
Making sense of hate: Young Muslims’ understandings of online racism in Norway
Dr. Marjan Nadim, Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, Oslo
13:35 - 13:55
Coffee break
13:55 - 14:25
Education and counter-speech
Rolf Skjöldebrand, Co-founder of The Non-violence Project
Amanda Anvar, Advisor at Stopp hatprat, an international youth movement for human rights and against hate speech, an initiative of the Council of Europe's Youth Council.
14:25 - 15:25
Integration and inclusion
Phoebe Mungai, Country Director, Kenya and Somalia, for The Oslo Center
Hasina Shirzad, journalist and advisor on human rights
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, National Leader of Belarus and a Head of the United Transition Cabinet
15:25 - 15:45
The commitment of the conference
Joyce Banda, Former President of the Republic of Malawi
HE Dr. Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary General of the Muslim World League
Catharina Bu,Secretary General, UN Norway
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and Secretary General of PEN Norway
15:45 - 16:00
Closing session
Finn-Jarle Rode, Executive Chairman of The Oslo Center
Moderator: Jacqui Thornton, award-winning global health journalist