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The Nobel Peace Center honors

Nansen’s Legacy: Compassion in Action

This year 2022 marks the hundred-year placed people”.
anniversary of Nansen’s Nobel Peace Prize,
and the Nobel Peace Prize Institute in Oslo In the exhibition, Compassion in action:
is using the occasion to pay tribute to his The legacy of Fridtjof Nansen, the Nobel
humanitarian activities. It is quite a para- Peace Center highlights Nansen's human-
dox that today, 100 years later, people are itarian work using original documents
fighting in the areas from which Nansen and photographs, some of them Nansen's
rescued prisoners of war who had been own. The exhibition also tells the story of
stuck there since the end of the First World five winners of the Nansen Refugee Award,
War. awarded by the United Nations Refugee
Agency (UNHCR) to individuals or organi-
Fridtjof Nansen is perhaps best known zations that go above and beyond the call of
among Norwegians as a polar explorer and duty to protect displaced people.
scientist, but he was also a real pioneer of
humanitarian work with refugees and vic- The exhibition was opened by Crown
tims of famine. Upon opening the exhibit, Prince Haakon on World Refugee Day on
the Nobel Peace Center Executive Direc- 20 June earlier this year and will run until
tor Kjersti Fløgstad emphasized that they the end of the year. So, if you have a chance
"wanted to show the enormous importance to visit Oslo, pass by the Nobel Peace Insti-
of Nansen's humanitarian efforts and how tute, close to the Aker Brygge, and visit the
he continues to inspire those who help dis- exhibit. It is definitely worth a visit.

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