Maud de Boer Buquicchio and Torbjørn Frøysnes at the opening of the conference		Violence
		Preventing everyday violence in Europe Oslo, Norway, 7 - 9 November 2004
DOCUMENTS Programme Presentation Final report of the integrated project Executive summary Draft Resolution PHOTO Photo Gallery INTERVIEWS Anders Larsen Jean Pierre Bonafe Schmitt THEME FILE Solutions to violence at school must include counselling and mediation mechanisms and depend on democratic involvement of the entire school community. File		© Gamma Ministers and senior officials from the 46 member states of the Council of Europe are to meet in Oslo to discuss how to tackle the problem of violence in everyday life. The meeting, which will take place from 7 to 9 November 2004, marks the culmination of three years' work within the framework of a special project, set up by the Council, to look at all aspects of the problem.   Under the project, the Council's services involved have pooled resources to propose means of preventing violence in homes, towns, schools and at sports events, as well as violence against women and other victims of human trafficking. The conference, whose official title is “Preventing everyday violence in Europe : responses in a democratic society”, aims to help make European societies safer by addressing the problem on a European level. It will outline twelve principles that can help reduce violence in any country, and recommend that they be adopted by governments across Europe as part of their national strategies against violence.   The conference is hosted by the Norwegian Minister of Justice and the Police, Odd Einar Dørum, as part of the Norwegian presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. It will open at 5:30 pm, on Sunday 7 November, at Oslo City Hall, with speeches by the Prime Minister of Norway Kjell Magne Bondevik, Council of Europe Deputy Secretary General Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Chairman of the Council's Ministers' Deputies, Torbjørn Frøysnes, and representing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold. It will continue for the two following days at the Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel on Sonja Henies Plass 3, Olso.   All sessions will be open to the press.   Contact Cathie Burton: + 33 (0)6 85 11 64 93 - + 33 (0)3 88 41 28 93		FOCUS 12-point guidelines against everyday violence (more...) Maud de Boer Buquicchio said the 3 year project on violence, now coming to its conclusion, was a major effort to address the problems in a coherent and structured way. (more...) ''Efforts against violence are clearly gaining momentum at national and international level'' The integrated project on violence was set up to respond to the acute concerns about violence and its effects in Europe by mobilising the resources and considerable experience of the Council of Europe related to the theme. REFERENCE SITE Integrated project ''Responses to violence in everyday life in a democratic society''