Max van der Stoel Award

2011 Max van der Stoel Award Winner – The Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje, North Macedonia

The Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje (NDC Skopje) won the 2011 Max van der Stoel award. The NDC Skopje was established in 2000, and is part of the Nansen Dialogue Network, which supports intercultural and interethnic dialogue with the aim of preventing conflict, fostering reconciliation and building peace. In particular, it has taken up the challenging task of bringing together students, parents and teachers in an area that has been affected by the 2001 conflict and is characterized by great ethnic divisions.

Videos, documents and publications

Visit the YouTube channel of the Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje to see the listed videos.

Three years after receiving Max Van Der Stoel Award

Welcoming speech HE Vollebaek HCNM

Minister presents the Award and certificate to the Award Winners

Acceptance speech by Sasho Stojkovski Director of NDC Skopje - Award Winner

Photo gallery: Max van der Stoel Award 2011

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Solveig Borgen sings at the opening of the Max van der Stoel Award ceremony, 24 October 2011.

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Uri Rosenthal, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (l), and OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek at the Max van der Stoel Award reception, 24 October 2011.

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Winners of the the Max van der Stoel Award 2011 relax before the ceremony: (from left) Ivana Milas, Nansen Dialogue Network Education team, Croatia; Biljana Krstevska-Papic, manager for education and training, Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje; and Mirlinda Alemdar, project co-ordinator at the Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje.

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Relatives of the late Max van der Stoel (l-r), daughters Saskia and Myrtille, and grandson Douwe Walhain attend the Max van der Stoel Award 2011.

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OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek delivers the Opening Address at the Max van der Stoel Award ceremony.

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Uri Rosenthal, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands (l), presents the Max van der Stoel Award to the winners Sasho Stojkovski (r), Director of the Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje, and Veton Zekoli (c), project manager at the Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje.

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Sasho Stojkovski, Director of the Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje, delivers the acceptance speech at the Max van der Stoel Award 2011 ceremony on behalf of the winners, the Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje.

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The winners of the Max van der Stoel Award 2011 with three members of the International Panel of Judges (l-r): Wilco de Jonge, member of the Management Board of Amnesty International and Max van der Stoel Award 2011, Veton Zekoli, project manager at the Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje, Knut Vollebaek, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and Chairman of the International Panel of Judges, Sasho Stojkovski, Director of the Nansen dialogue Centre Skopje and Anastasia Crickley, Chair of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU and Max van der Stoel Award 2011 judge.

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The winners of the Max van der Stoel Award 2011 with the Macedonian Ambassador to the Netherlands, Nikola Dimitrov (l) and OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek (far right). The Nansen Dialogue Network and Nansen Dialogue Centre Skopje representatives, from 2nd left: Mirlinda Alemdar, Biljana Krstevska-Papic, Veton Zekoli, Bente Knagenhjelm, Sasho Stojkovski, Ivana Milas and Angel Vidal-Alonso.

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One of the winners of the Max van der Stoel Award 2011, points to a photograph of the late Max van der Stoel in the Award certificate.

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