Overview

• The Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, UNAM, the Norwegian Embassy and NOREF signed the Letter of Intent on July 30 to establish academic and diplomatic cooperation in culture of peace and conflict mediation.
• The agreement integrates Norway and NOREF into UNAM’s ‘Semillero Universitario’ initiative, strengthening the university community’s role in driving social transformation through peace education.
• Signatories committed to sharing conflict mediation best practices and organizing joint events to foster dialogue-driven approaches to resolving disagreements.
• The pact mandates gender-inclusive frameworks by securing substantive participation of women experts at every stage of mediation and peacebuilding processes.
• Officials highlighted dialogue as the cornerstone of Mexico’s diplomacy and underscored the need to counter polarization fueled by hate speech and disinformation.