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Did you know that we need the ocean so we can breathe? The high seas are the lungs of the planet and our big, beating blue heart. Yet, it is under threat from the strains we are putting it under. With the UN High Seas Treaty negotiations, we have an unique opportunity to protect this part of the ocean. Read more and see the video from our event 10 June here. 

Hitler's Hunger Plan

Hunger on the Trail of Tears

An exhibition about food, war and the World Food Programme. 

Hunger and war is closely linked together, and food can also be a weapon of war. Destruction of crops and starvation of certain groups of people have been used as strategies in conflicts throughout history. I today's conflicts in Syria and Yemen, control over the food supplies is an important means of power. When the World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020, it was for it's work to combat hunger, but also because the organisation is contributing to peace by providing food asstance to millions of people affected by war and conflict. 

For this year's Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition, one of Africa’s leading photographers, 

, has been commissioned by the Nobel Peace Center to make a photo series on food in war and conflict. In ten powerful photos she illustrated ten differnet countries and conflicts where food is used as weapon. 

Read the stories behind the Peace Prize Exhibition 2020

The Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2020 also tells the story about the World Food Programme and their work. In June and July, the short documentary Hunger Ward, abouth the health workers fighting hunger on the frontline in Yemen, is shown as a part of the exhibition. 

During the summer, the audience can take part in the creation of an art work inside the exhibition. In artist Espen Henningsen's installation "To Build from Above", the audience is invited to draw and write on textiles, answering the question: What does food mean to you?

"I want the installation to become a place where people can reflect over the importance of food for stability and peace in the world", says Henningsen. 

The material will eventually become a curtain, inspired by the Syria curtain made by the artist Elisabeth Harr. It refers to how curtains and carpets are being used as a shield from snipers in Syria. 

"The curtain also symbolises how food aid can help protect the population in conflict areas", says Asle Olsen, curator at the Nobel Peace Center.  

The Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2020 opened in a digital version 10 December 2020, the same day as the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP). The physical exhibition will open 29 May, after the center has been closed for six months due to the corona restrictions. The exhibiton is also showing the story and work of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate WFP. 

The exhibition will be available until 29 November 2021. 

The exhibition is supported by Yara International (Nobel Peace Prize Celebration Partner 2020), Canon (print partner) and Bergesenstiftelsen.

Read more about the Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition

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Join Nobel Peace Prize laureates, decision makers and peace practioners in the discussion at the Nobel Peace Center’s annual peace conference, live streamed from Oslo to audiences across the world.

When the World Food Programme was announced as the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in October last year, the link between food and peace was put on the international agenda. Almost a year after, this timely event will take stock of the situation and discuss directions for moving forward on the road on reaching the goal of ending hunger and providing food security for sustainable societies. 

Speakers to be announced soon – stay tuned!

Thanks to our partners: Hydro, Yara, Bama, Atea, NMBU, Designit and Norad.

We are open all summer

Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2020

Fix the Food Conference

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Film screening: Hunger Ward

Fix the Food Conference

Fix the Food Festival

PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS

The Nobel Mystery

Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition 2020

Our big, blue beating heart

Hitler's Hunger Plan

Hunger on the Trail of Tears

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