News stories by Fredrik S. Heffermehl

OSLO, Jun 24 (IPS) - When he died at the age of 80 on Jun. 18 in Oslo, Fredrik Fasting Torgersen had divided Norway for 56 years and the "Torgersen case" had attracted international interest in forensic science circles, among them the U.S.-based Innocence Project.

OSLO, Apr 10 (IPS) - The Nobel Peace Prize is about to bow out to critics. As of Jan. 1, the Oslo-based Norwegian Nobel Committee that selects the winners has a new secretary, Olav Njølstad, who announced that "changes loom" in a recent interview.

A public authority in Sweden recently issued orders that the Stockholm-based Nobel Foundation must rein in and discipline the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, which is tasked with selecting the Nobel peace laureates, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl, Norwegian lawyer and author.

The response to the recent atrocities in Norway cannot be more power-wielding and violence. Instead we must create a global culture of peace and non-violence, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl, author of "The Nobel Peace Prize; What Nobel Really Wanted", a norwegian lawyer and board member of IALANA, the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms.