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25.09.2022 | 4-7 pm | Kirchliches Zentrum Glaubten

Eleven works by Zurich artist George Gessler will be sold at a benefit event on 25 September 2022 in aid of PeaceWomen Across the Globe. The film "1000 Women and a Dream", about the initiative "1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005" will also be presented at the event (in German) by the President Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold.

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Tuesday | 20.09.2022 | 5:30-6:30pm

Are you interested in accompanying human rights activists in Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia or Mexico for at least one year? Sign up on our website to learn more from Julian Streit, who is volunteering in Colombia at the moment.

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Do you want to support the goals of IAMANEH Switzerland and contribute to the development of the organisation? Or do you know someone who would like to get involved with IAMANEH Switzerland? We have a super exciting key position to fill and are looking for a person with proven experience in fundraising. Apply today - or spread the word in your network!

As of 1 August 2022 or by agreement, IAMANEH is looking for a Public Fundraising / Communication Officer 60%

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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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Coexistences invites a group of students from Seminara Kibbutzim (a teachers school) to go on an alpine trek of several days together. They will be 12 young adults, in equal numbers of Israeli Arabs and Jews, women and men. Accompanied by the long-time facilitator Ulfat Haider and a Jewish counterpart, the group will leave on a nine-day trek around the Mont-Blanc carrying their tents and food and will cross into Italy, France to return to Switzerland. The objective of this project is to create solidarity, frank and honest discussions, leveraging the imperative to face together a difficult environment, to illustrate the possibility to achieve a common goal inspite of the differences and build solid relationships between the two communities.

15-26 September

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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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Between 2006 and 2019, Coexistences hosted in Lausanne 33 dialogue groups, and their 15-20 facilitators. On our 10th year anniversary, we began to recognise that these facilitators did not know each other and had different approaches. In addition, no overarching organisation exists locally to enable the cross-fertilisation of a rich and long collective practice and approach. Besides, some of them have developed a field experience but lack a formal training.

The present project aims to create a virtuous circle within which to share experiences and learning, and a support network leveraging their cumulated experience. The group will spend some time in the mountain to consolidate the group dynamic, followed by a few days in Swiss host families.

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A clever and moving film about an insufficient dealing with the past and its consequences.

11 May 2022, 7-9pm

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The Center for Dialogue & Conflict Transformation at the LCC International University is organising a 3-day conference exploring narrative's role in transforming societies.

March 16-18

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Awareness is knowing who you are. It is the condition for fulfilling life and finding healing and peace. The actress Astrid Bühler guides you through the life inside your psyche. You meet with your instincts, emotions and calculations, and with your soul. You have the possibility to participate in a personal theatrical guidance.

February 11 - March 27, between 2-8pm

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