BUC graduate students, Momodou Mboge and Chalank Yahya have each been awarded prestigious scholarships by the Falstad Centre.
The two award winners, who are both studying in the 2010-2012 MSc Human Rights and Multiculturalism programme, are engaged in contrasting human rights education research projects in Iraq and in Norway. They each recieve 20.000 norwegian kroner from the centre in addition to being invited for seminares and conferences at the Falstad Centre as well as recieving help in establishing relevant networks.
The Falstad Centre is national memorial and human rights documentation site, situated near Trondheim.
Chalank's research, in Iraqi Kurdistan, focuses on schooling, whereas Momodou's project looks at museum education and the potential of a museum, in this case, the Oslo Holocaust Centre, both to enhance and challenge the narrative of history as presented in schools.
Chalank is examining the potential of human rights education to enable gender equality and empower women ands girls. Human rights education is seen by many in the Kurdistan region of Iraq as an important new school subject which will prepare young people to learn to live together in this culturally diverse region and to contribute to peace and development in the region.
- I strongly believe that through education and in particular the human right education will equipped the future generation in increasing peace building and learning to respect each other regardless religious, ethnic or sex differences, she says.
Momodou examines how the Oslo Holocaust Centre presents an alternative narrative of recent Norwegian history. In this study he hopes to get to the heart of contemporary questions about multiculturalism, about who we are, and how we shape our national dientities. He also considers how the dominant national story may serve to include or exclude.
- I believe through the study of a nation's history and culture, one can gain a more nuanced understanding of the present challenges people and institutions are confronted with, he says.
The Oslo Holocaust Centre educates the public about the persecution, arrests and deportation to death camps of Norwegian Jews during World War Two and with studies of religious minorities today.
- I congratulate both Chalank and Momodou on their fantastic personal achievements in winning these prestigious Falstad scholarships. This is also a great achievement for BUC and recognition for the MSc Human Rights and Multiculturalism programme, says professor Audrey Osler, who is supervising both students.
Opprettet: 11.01.2012 13:13 av Knut Jul Meland
Oppdatert: 12.01.2012 09:26 av Jan-Henrik Kulberg
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