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HEKS is looking for a Country Director, Ukraine (100%) to ensure HEKS' work in the field of humanitarian aid. HEKS/EPER, Swiss Church Aid, supports projects designed to combat hunger, poverty and injustice in over 30 countries on four continents. HEKS/EPER also provides worldwide humanitarian assistance for victims of natural disasters and armed conflicts and supports the Church's diaconal work in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

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May 3, 2023 | 6pm | Stadtkino Basel

Join us for the film screening "Noche de fuego" at the Stadtkino Basel next week. The film tells the story of women and girls living in a Mexican mountain village controlled by a cartel, it depicts their strong friendship to each other and shows us their forms of everyday resistance. After the film a film talk with Katia Aeby (PBI Switzerland) and Dr Anna Antonakis (KOFF/swisspeace) will take place.

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As digital technology plays a crucial role in conflict and peace, it's important for peacebuilders to increase their digital literacy. The worlds of peacebuilding and technology have a lot they can offer each other, and the Master Class explored how to approach this reciprocal relationship.

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Natural resources are essential for human survival, serve as a primary source of livelihood for many, and are vital to the functioning of economies and societies worldwide. What conflicts can arise from competition for these resources, and how can peacebuilding organizations address them? KOFF members discuss this topic in the latest edition of the à propos magazine.

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Applications are now open for three programme assistant positions at QUNO Geneva from September 2023 to August 2024 in Human Rights & Refugees (HRR); Peace & Disarmament (PD); and Human Impacts of Climate Change (HICC). These are exciting opportunities for young professionals with an interest in international affairs to learn about and contribute to Quaker work at the UN. They are open to Quakers and those in sympathy with Quaker values. The closing date for applications is 20 April 2023.

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April 15 | 10:30am-1:30pm | Breitenrainstrasse 59, 3013 Bern

The monthly GSoA Coordination Meeting is coming up. During these meeting decisions on GSoA's work are made. The meeting is public and everyone who is interested is invited to join!

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April 20-29, 2023, Bern

This year the Tour de Lorraine focuses on the thematic area of peace and war, violence and non-violence, security and solidarity. The Swiss Platform for Peacebuilding KOFF is actively contributing to the event series and organizes different events and workshops. We are delighted that so many KOFF member organizations are facilitating workshops and invite you to participate!

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This Essential summarizes our key findings of an internal assessment of Joint Learning Processes (JLP), a peacebuilding methodology and practice developed by us. This Essential aims to identify and capitalize on the lessons learnt from previous JLPs to improve the accessibility, relevance, and impact of joint learning in the platform, as well as to share our experiences with this methodology with a wider audience.

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The purpose of this publication by Helvetas is to illustrate what conflict sensitivity looks like in practice. It presents a collection of experiences from Helvetas staff around the world. The 39 examples from 15 countries cover all Helvetas’ working areas. They illustrate the different ways in which our interventions can have unintended effects in the social contexts in which we operate and how staff acted to prevent potential negative impacts of our work or adapted when tensions did arise.

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After 25 years of dicussions and work the NMRI will be founded in May 2023. This also implies a turning point for humanrights.ch. Besides its own new orientation, humanrights.ch seeks to hand over its database with basic documentation of human rights and their implementation in Switzerland.

Learn more in the interview with Marianne Aeberhard