July 22, 2011
A man places a car bomb in the government quarters in Oslo and then drives 40 km to the island of Utøya and attacks the people attending the Norwegian Labor Party’s Youth League summer camp. Over the course of 72 minutes, 69 people were killed, 99 were seriously injured and over 300 suffer massive psychological trauma.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14260297
July 10–15, 2018
The Volunteer Summer Summit organized by the European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL) and AFS takes place on Utøya with the thematic focus “Civic Education Against Extremism”. 160 people traveled from all over Europe and beyond to come together on this island for 5 days.
“EFIL is an organization that contributes to peace and justice in a diverse world threatened by inequity and intolerance, by promoting intercultural understanding and sensitivity among European and other countries, organizations and citizens, hereby endorsing the ends of AFS Intercultural Programs.”
https://efil.afs.org/about-efil/
“AFS Intercultural Programs is an international, voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit organization that provides intercultural learning opportunities to help people develop the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to create a more just and…
