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24/05/2014

Norway – Number 1 on Quality of Life, Yet Having High, Increasing Loneliness. How Come?

Human Wrongs Watch

“Two major contradictions: between ranking as No. 1 on Quality of Life indicators, yet having a high and increasing loneliness and not only at old age; and between having a country but increasingly letting others do the work. How come? Because interaction nets dissolve. Extended families disappeared long time ago.”

The village of Reine in Lofoten, Norway.2009 Author: User:Sveter (Please credit as "Petr Šmerkl, Wikipedia" in case you use this outside WMF projects.) Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons

The village of Reine in Lofoten, Norway.2009 | Author: User:Sveter (Please credit as “Petr Šmerkl, Wikipedia” in case you use this outside WMF projects.) Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 | Wikimedia Commons

By Johan Galtung*, TRANSCENDin Oslo, 200 Years after the 17 May 1814 Independence Constitution. And why did that happen? The Treaty of Kiel 14 January 1814 between UK-Sweden of the anti-French Sixth Coalition and Denmark-Norway allied to Napoléon made Copenhagen cede Norway to Sweden.

And why did that happen?

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