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From January, Switzerland will sit at the infamous round table at UN headquarters in New York as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Together with 14 other states, it will debate issues of global security. Switzerland must seize the opportunity to initiate real change. This requires a committed agenda and ambitious goals.

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HEKS publishes regular blog posts on the war in Ukraine. Rahel Hürzeler from HEKS, an expert in conflict transformation, writes in her contribution about the principles of non-violent peacebuilding and why these are still of relevance in the context of Ukraine.

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On this months episode of Vox Mundi on Radio RaBe Anna Leissing and Hannah-Milena Elias talk about Narratives in Colombia and the connection to the Venezuelan migration and peace. The show was live on 7 July 2020 and can now be lsitened to on the radio`s website.

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Latin America has been severely affected by the corona pandemic. The pandemic has dealt Colombia a double blow: poor and marginalised populations are suffering hunger due to quarantine measures and loss of income, and human rights defenders and activists are being murdered in their homes during curfews. We interview Alejandra Miller Restrepo about the impact of the epidemic on the population, on women and on the work of Colombia’s Truth Commission. She is a member of our International Board and of the Colombian Truth Commission.

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In this episode different voices from Venezuela, Colombia and Switzerland shed light on the current situation in Colombia and analyze the impact that migration narratives, may they be negative or positive, can have on a durable peace in the country.

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In our podcast series “PeaceWomen Across the Globe” PeaceWomen talk about their work, the challenges for peace in their countries, and why they dedicate their lives to women's rights and peacebuilding. The eight podcasts feature women from Afghanistan, Albania, Burundi, Colombia, Nepal, the Philippines, Switzerland and the USA.

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The Honduran government has recently created a virtual platform to ensure the sustainability of investments in the country during the Corona crisis. Its aim is to process environmental permits for extractive projects. In this Blog article, Peace Watch International raises the resulting human rights issues.

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This report draws together key observations from the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform’s Annual Retreat 2020. It focuses on the prospective priorities for peacebuilding in 2020 and themes for the GPP’s community curation.

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Together with 20 civil society organizations, the Swiss Platform for Peacebuilding KOFF asks the Swiss Government and Parliament to substantially and financially contribute to international efforts to counter the dramatic socioeconomic and ecological consequences of COVID19, particularly in the poorest countries of the world.

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The Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy described the corona pandemic as "a portal between one world and the next". Humans can now choose a new world for which we would be prepared to fight. PeaceWomen Across the Globe also wishes that the pandemic can lead to a change in thinking, paving the way to the more peaceful and just world that we have been working towards for 15 years. However, without increased global solidarity and cooperation with and between civil society actors, no new world can emerge beyond the portal. Read the full statement here.

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