Cookies, coffee and candlelight set the mood for Nobel Peace Prize Forum participants at the World Café as they gathered in small groups to exchange ideas about poverty and inequality. In this café setting, people joined in collaborative conversation, sharing personal stories and discussing ways to make a difference.
Jonathan Cappelli, a sophomore majoring in political science and environmental science at St. Olaf College felt that World Café was the perfect conclusion to Friday’s events.
“It’s so important to discuss these issues that we are learning about today,” he said. “The mixing up and changing of tables at the World Café opened up new perspectives for me.”
In a series of three rotations, each group dispersed and formed new groups, focusing on one central question posed by facilitator Breanna Dahl ’09. Discussions explored the definition of poverty, ways to alleviate poverty and reduce extreme inequalities and practical ways to address these issues.
Many students spoke of habitat trips, mission trips and other personal experiences that provided them with up-close encounters with poverty. Others spoke of academic research or just listened instead, but everyone played a role in this shared learning experience and debriefing of the day’s events.
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