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Tore Nærland, head of BikeforPeace (BfP) Norway- global peace activist from Bryne, Norway.

Tore Nærland was born in Torland, Naerboe, in Norway in 1954. He studied political science and history in at Concordia college in Minnesota USA in 1984-1985. He has biked in 123 nations for peace and disarmament since 1977. The greatest campaigns he has had was that were 20 from USA-Scandinava and 20 from USSR biked together Moscow-Oslo-NYC -DC in 1983, first ride with people from the two superpowers. and the 2019 world tour together with MayorsforPeace. He has published two books "Pedal on for world peace" and "Around the world in 40 days" Also 13 others He got the Gandhi international peace award in London in 2015 and the Fervent global love of life award in Taiwan 2015. In 2017 he got the royal medal from King Harald V of Norway. He has been nominated to the Nobel peace prize many times. Nærland is partially blind since the age of 15. He bikes tandems most of the times and on peaceful roads on regular bike with other people around him. He leads BikeforPeace Norway and has till got plans for tours. All for solidarity and disarmament and peace and in the spirit of Gandhi and Luther King.

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