Norway and Sri Lanka

This article on the BBC website is about how main negotiator is urging an end to the most recent cases of violence and has said all is not lost. He is the chief negotiator from the great country of Norway. Norway has been the main force for peace in the conflict. Peace talks have been held in Norway with both sides. The crease fire agreement which last for more then a year was signed in Norway. I'm will to say that with out Norway, there would no country involved with the peace talks and the conflict would be a lot worse off.
After reading this article it reminds me of a question that I had last semester when I spent some time talking about Sri Lanka.But why the hell is Norway involved with Sri Lanka? Did they just wake up one day and say "Lets fix the Sri Lanka conflict?" I have a feeling it went something like this:

PM of Norway: I'm bored. What could we do
Staff to PM of Norway: Well we could go back to our Viking nature and pillage the English coast
PM of Norway:Tempting but I get seasick and i have way too much crap in my house so no place to store the loot that we pillage.
Staff to PM of Norway: Maybe we could do what the Swedes do?
PM of Norway: Eat meatballs?
Staff to PM of Norway: No, try and get involved with other countries conflicts and try and solve them.
PM of Norway: Yeah why should Sweden be considered the nation that keeps on bringing peace to everyone. But what country should we bring peace to?
Staff to PM of Norway: I'm not sure? Maybe we should use the same method that we use to create the names of our children
PM of Norway: You mean get drunk a lot and then eat alphabet cereal and fall asleep in the bowl and whatever sticks to our faces when we wake up is what we call our children?
Staff to PM of Norway: No I meant that we take names from Sweden to use as our own. Since we already taking their idea lets take one of their countries that they are trying to fix.
PM of Norway: Interesting but we need to separate ourselves from our neighbours even though most of the world doesn't actually know the difference between us and the rest of the Scandinavia countries.
Staff to PM of Norway: There a difference?
PM of Norway: Yes actually. But getting back to the matter in hand, we need to bring peace to a country. But what country?
Staff to PM of Norway: I have an idea.
Staff to PM of Norway brings out a globe.
Staff to PM of Norway: I have a great idea. Put your finger on the globe and then spin it and whatever country it lands on we will bring peace to.
PM of Norway spins the globe.
PM of Norway Damn, Palestinian . Lets make it two out of three.
PM of Norway spins globe again
PM of Norway: hmmm Sri Lanka? Ok I'm game. Lets put all of our effort into Sri Lanka. We give them reindeer meat as a way to influence them to settle their conflict. Speaking of ...
Staff to PM of Norway: reindeer meat?
PM of Norway: No raiding the British Coast. Let's go, I don't have all day.