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collective healing journey
community healing narrative
community-based healing
compassionate leadership
confronting extremism
confronting terror with empathy
creating hope after violence
Democracy
democratic ideals in practice
democratic youth engagement
emotional courage and public duty
engagement
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ethical decision-making after loss
ethical rebuilding process
family-centered commemoration
Grief
guiding communities through sorrow
honoring young lives
hope emerging from devastation
humanity in the face of violence
inclusive memorial practices
leadership in difficult times
learning from national trauma
memorial design and meaning
memorial landscapes
national grief and renewal
Nobel Peace Prize
Nordic commitment to peace
Nordic political culture
Nordic social values
Norway mass violence history
Norwegian Labor Party
nurturing future generations
peace education spaces
peace-focused youth programs
peacebuilding in daily life
post-trauma community rebuilding
rebuilding after tragedy
rebuilding safe community spaces
rebuilding trust after crisis
rebuilding with compassion
remembrance and reconciliation
remembrance through action
renewal after national shock
resilient civic culture
resisting extremism through values
restorative approaches to tragedy
stories of moral responsibility
strengthening democratic participation
Summer
survivor families and memory
Terrorism
trauma-informed leadership
Utoya recovery story
Violence
White supremacy violence
Youth
youth leadership and resilience
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- ISBN 9781625348487
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2025
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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On July 22, 2011, a white supremacist killed eight people at Oslo’s Government Center in Norway and then terrorized the idyllic island of UtØya, where he executed sixty-nine more people, mostly teenagers. The country had never suffered such a massacre, and in the aftermath, the entire population was reeling.
UtØya, the Norwegian Labor Party’s summer camp for youth, a beloved place where many Norwegians learned about democratic values and processes, made lifelong friendships, and developed a vision for a just society, became mired in grief and discord. When JØrgen Watne Frydnes took on the daunting task of rebuilding the island and charting its future, he had to figure out a compassionate and just way forward. He made a radical decision: he set out to talk with each family of a murdered person, seeking to understand their needs and their hopes so that the future of the island could include their wishes and concerns. This emotionally grueling work, which was never considered in the scholarly literature on commemoration, led to a true renewal of UtØya, resulting in a meaningful memorial to those who were lost as well as beautiful surroundings for campers who come there to study democracy and peace.
Frydnes’s narrative, originally published in Norwegian, is structured around the seasons of the year and the landscape of the island, and tracks one person’s account of learning how to remember, commemorate, and honor the dead, and acknowledge a mass tragedy, and yet also create a nurturing, aspirational space for hope.
UtØya, the Norwegian Labor Party’s summer camp for youth, a beloved place where many Norwegians learned about democratic values and processes, made lifelong friendships, and developed a vision for a just society, became mired in grief and discord. When JØrgen Watne Frydnes took on the daunting task of rebuilding the island and charting its future, he had to figure out a compassionate and just way forward. He made a radical decision: he set out to talk with each family of a murdered person, seeking to understand their needs and their hopes so that the future of the island could include their wishes and concerns. This emotionally grueling work, which was never considered in the scholarly literature on commemoration, led to a true renewal of UtØya, resulting in a meaningful memorial to those who were lost as well as beautiful surroundings for campers who come there to study democracy and peace.
Frydnes’s narrative, originally published in Norwegian, is structured around the seasons of the year and the landscape of the island, and tracks one person’s account of learning how to remember, commemorate, and honor the dead, and acknowledge a mass tragedy, and yet also create a nurturing, aspirational space for hope.
JØrgen Watne Frydnes is the director of PEN Norway and former director of UtØya, a Norwegian island owned by the Workers’ Youth League. He previously worked at Doctors Without Borders. He is also chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and a board member of The Norwegian Helsinki Committee. JØrgen has led the effort to rebuild UtØya after the terrorist attack in 2011.
