Atle Hetland
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Alternative thinking
First, alternative thinking has nothing to do with alternative news, alternative facts, and such modern concepts. Alternative thinking means to be imaginative → Read More
Gordian knots
The term ‘Gordian knot’ dates back to Greek legends some 300 years BC. Nobody could figure out how the knot was made and how it could be opened. In the year → Read More
When the world is no longer the same
We live in a time when many things are uncertain and change happens unexpectedly and in ways we don’t want. In the past, things improved and became better, we → Read More
Peace movements today
In the last ten years or more, the security debates in most countries seem to have been about the expansion of the military and police, mentioning, too, → Read More
Why cannot NATO and Russia talk?
The Western Julian calendar year 2023 is still young, and so is indeed the Chinese Lunar year, which is celebrated this week. A year can change the world. If → Read More
Challenges in a fragmented world
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has this week held its 2023 Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, with top leaders in government, private sector, civil society and more. → Read More
Honoured with a state funeral
To be given a funeral paid for by the state is one of the highest honours that can be bestowed upon a citizen, alas, it can only be appreciated by relatives, → Read More
What can I do for you?
John F. Kennedy inspired children and adults alike when he said in his inaugural address as the president said: “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask → Read More
Praying for a peaceful 2023
In his annual Christmas speech and prayer to the ‘city and the world’, or in Latin, Urbi et Orbi, Pope Francis said that the world is suffering from a → Read More
Elections in a little, rich land
Today, it was my intention to look deeply at the general elections in my home country Norway, and find some issues that other countries, indeed Pakistan, can learn from. → Read More
Increased aid to Afghanistan
The sixty-seventy years era of development aid has been on the decline for a couple of decades already, and more bilateral aid that is still forthcoming, is channelled → Read More
Celebrating private and government schools
Last week, I said in my article that a new school year is meant to be a happy time. Today, I will say that the first day of the new school at the opening of → Read More
Lessons at my friend’s passing
In today’s article I shall write about this life and the hereafter as I have come to reflect on it because a dear friend became ill, was treated but didn’t → Read More
Snow leopards, polar bears and more
Today, the Norwegian Ambassador Tore Nedrebø hosts an event to unveil a collage painting made by children from Gilgit, showing the majestic mountains with the → Read More
A prayer for migrants
Today, on the eve of Eid Milad-un-Nabi, which in the Muslim Sunni calendar is celebrated in memory of the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), it is appropriate to give → Read More
The world belongs to all of us
‘The world belongs to all of us’, is a broad principle in issues of migration. That means that any forms of geographic boarders between states ultimately → Read More
First we are human beings
First we are human beings, said my old friend Ingrid Eide in an email recently. Secondly, she said, we are men and women, and then all the other things that follow → Read More
Immigrants living by example
Fifteen years ago, a young immigrant father from Pakistan took his seven year old son, Hamza, to see the beautiful old buildings of the University of Oslo, saying he → Read More
Wild animals and good people
I wasnt sure if I this week should write about the local snow leopards or something more international and perhaps political. But then I decided to write a bit → Read More
I can, we can
ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, has won this years Nobel Peace Prize; it was announced from Oslo, Norway a few days ago. It was → Read More