Oslo Center
The Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights, or simply Oslo Center, is a
inter-religious tolerance worldwide. The center cooperates closely with the Carter Center in Atlanta, the Kim Dae Jung Library in Seoul and the Crisis Management Initiative in Helsinki.[1]
Shortly after the announced opening of The Oslo Center,
bureaucrats, had built up over the years.[2]
The center has eight
funds from various Norwegian businesses and corporations in 2007 to keep it up and running for the following five years. The budget for 2007 was 10.5 million Norwegian krones.[3]
Projects
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- Burma:
- Bondevik co-authored the book prisoners in our own country about human rights abuse in Burma
- Bondevik co-authored the book prisoners in our own country about human rights abuse in
- North Korea, failure to protect:
- Commissioning a study of the present humanitarian situation in North Korea
- Commissioning a study of the present
- Club de Madrid:
- An organization dedicated to democracy around the world
- Inter-culture and inter-religious dialogue:
- working for inter-religious dialogue
- New born’s right to life:
- organization working for the rights of children*
- The right to life and the present situation in the Horn of Africa:
- organization working in the Horn of Africa
- Health and human rights:
- Mapping out religious health assets that can be mobilized in the battle against AIDS/HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
- Mapping out religious health assets that can be mobilized in the battle against
Criticism of funding sources
In 2021, the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet reported that Bondevik personally received 5 million NOK (around 560,000 USD) from Muslim World League, an NGO with close connections to the Saudi Arabian government, between the years 2019-2021.[4]
The following year, the Norwegian newspaper Vårt Land disclosed that Bondevik had received an undisclosed amount to write a favorable op-ed piece in their pages earlier in 2022, praising the government of Kazakhstan.protests in Kazakhstan that same year.
Criticism of nepotism
political status to gain an unfair advantage for himself and his new center. Some commentators also felt that it was inappropriate for a recently retired prime minister to accept large sums of money from both the Government and the Norwegian business community, which up until that moment had benefitted from his politics. This was viewed by some as nepotism
.
chairman of the board for the new center. Jagland, also received massive criticism for allowing Bondevik, a retired politician, to announce the opening of the centre in Jagland's Parliament office. Some felt that this raised serious doubts as to whether this was a private peace center, or whether it was under the auspices of the Norwegian Government.[6]
Bondevik's reaction to the criticism
In an interview given to
organizations to do the same.[7]
References
- ^ "The Oslo Center". www.oslocenter.no. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
- ^ (in Norwegian) Bondevik oppretter fredssenter i Oslo
- ^ "The Oslo Center". www.oslocenter.no. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
- ^ Krokfjord, Caroline Drefvelin, Torgeir P. (2021-10-05). "Skal ha fått nesten 13 millioner: - Ba om mer". dagbladet.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2022-01-11.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Bjåen, Av Bjørgulv K.; Northug, journalist og Cathrine; journalist. "Bondevik fikk betalt for rosende kronikk om Kasakhstan". Vårt Land (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2022-01-11.
- ^ (in Norwegian) Hvor ble det av debatten?
- ^ (in Norwegian) DN.no - Bondevik tar til motmæle mot kritikerne
