Oslo Scholars
The Oslo Scholars Program offers undergraduates with demonstrated interest in human rights and international political issues an opportunity to attend the...
Show MoreThe Oslo Scholars Program offers undergraduates with demonstrated interest in human rights and international political issues an opportunity to attend the...
Show MoreIt would not be an overstatement to say that, during my first month of work at CANVAS, I was perpetually awestruck. I had already met Srdja Popovich, at the 2017 Oslo Freedom Forum and listened to...
The Albert Einstein Institution works to advance the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action. Through educational materials such as Dr. Gene Sharp’s book, “From Dictatorship to Demo...
Aparna Dasaraju is majoring in Peace and Justice Studies and is in the class of 2016. She is an Oslo Scholar.
EPIIC students Caitlin Thompson and Jack Margolin with Garry Kasparov, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation at the Oslo Freedom Forum.
A joint initiative of the Human Rights Foundation and the Institute for Global Leadership, the College Freedom Forum (CFF) at Tufts University brings the Oslo Freedom Forum experience to college c
Learn MoreA meaningful conclusion to the three day summit for our Oslo Scholars!
Zara Rancheva worked as a research intern at the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action Strategies in Belgrade, Summer 2017
Ann Hall (A19) worked remotely with Dr. Nada Dhaif, who is a Bahraini oral and dental surgeon and founder of the Bahraini Rehabilitation & Anti-Violence Organization (BRAVO)
Nora Nord (A18) and Liam Flaherty (A18) worked at a Srinagar-based mental health clinic, Healing Kashmir, working on the lobbying arguments for implementing a mental health regiment into schools in Kashmir.
IGL Oslo Scholars Benya Kraus and Chris Hnin with Rachana Sunar, a Nepalese women's rights activist, doing the same greeting of hello in their home countries of Thailand, Myanmar, and Nepal, respectively
Taken at the Oslo City Hall with (from left) Srdja Popovic and his wife, fellow Oslo Scholar Nora Nord, Sherman Teichman, fellow IGL Oslo Scholar Chris Hnin, Jordanian activist Suleiman Bakhit, IGL Oslo Scholar Benya Kraus, Middle East editor for Newsweek Janine di Giovanni, and former Canadian Attorney General and Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler
Jordanian activist, Suleiman Bakhit and IGL Oslo Scholar Benya Kraus outside a café in central Oslo
Oslo Scholars from Tufts University and McGill University outside Oslo City Hall with last year's Oslo Freedom Forum speaker Suleiman Bakhit
The College Freedom Forum panelists gather to address closing remarks and questions.
The Oslo Scholars travel to Norway to participate in the 2013 Oslo Freedom Forum
The Oslo Scholars listen in on one of the many panels that take place during the annual summit
Scholars get the opportunity to meet speakers between panels
Shawn Patterson travelled to Belgrade to work on an in-depth analysis of democratic movements in the Horn of Africa, 2016
Tufts students work to develop an argument for implementing a mental health program into high schools, so as to take preventative measures to combat the mental health epidemic in Kashmir, 2016