The 2. Pestalozzi Seminar in Oslo this year will take place November 16-20, focusing on the theme "Democratic governance of schools". The target group for this conference is heads of schools, deputy heads or administrators of schools. Deadline for application: October 9. Travel (within Europe) and accommodation costs will be covered by the Council of Europe and the European Wergeland Centre.

Oslo University College, together with the University of Oslo and the Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, has invited the distinguished anthropologist and historian Prof. Matti Bunzl (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign) to give a series of lectures in Oslo; 16., 18., 21. September. The European Wergeland Centre is participating in this event, and EWC’s Research Coordinator Claudia Lenz will be giving a presentation.

The United Nations celebrations of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 will this year include the staging of the first World Human Rights Moot Court Competition.

This new e-journal includes a wide variety of free articles for teachers and others interested in learning more about religions and beliefs, with contributions from perspectives rarely found in conventional text books, for example Zoroastrian, Pagan, Bahá’i, Humanist, Orthodox Christian, as well as from the more familiar religions.

Member States of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, a grouping of 11 African nations, have taken an historic step forward with the establishment of a Regional Center which aims to strengthen good governance, democracy and human rights.