News Archive

19.11.2022 | 2:30pm | Kunst Museum Winterthur

Perhaps you sometimes think of the artasfoundation and wonder what they are currently doing or able to do with art in Eastern Europe during these months of conflict in that region. At the Kunst Museum Winterthur, the exhibition "Art and War" is currently taking place. At the event, the participants will be guided by the exhibition curator. Afterwards, the artasfoundation invites you to an apero and an informal conversation about its work.

26.10. - 19.11.2022 | Zurich, Lucerne & Bern

Each night two professional cooking teams of known restaurants cook on stage for the audience. The teams create a four-course-menu based on ingredients they only learned about on that very day. The audience and a jury can enjoy and assess these culinary delights and, finally, decide which cooking team is the winner of the evening. All proceeds of the event go to the projects of Cuisine sans frontières.

Learn more and register here!

31.10. - 04.11.2022 | In-Person in Geneva and Online

The Geneva Peace Week is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar in which organizations in Geneva and their international partners come together to share knowledge and practice on a diverse range of topics relating to the promotion of peace across contexts and disciplines. Multiple KOFF members are participating and organizing workshops.

More information and registration here.

29.10.2022 | 1:45-4:30pm | Quartierraum Zentralstrasse, Zentralstrasse 34, 8003 Zürich

Interested in change? We work with crazy ideas concerning sustainability, the ecological footprint, peace, disarmament, and participatory justice. To do so, we need all five senses. Everyone is welcome and no previous knowledge is required.

Please register here.

Peace Science Digest has published its new special issue on nonviolent approaches to security in collaboration with Nonviolent Peaceforce. The issue focuses on nonviolent, civilian-led strategies for protection and violence prevention in various violent contexts, ranging from civil war and intercommunal violent conflict to urban gun violence.

Interested? Read the Special Issue here!

01.12.2022 | 5-8pm | Bern

The national human rights institution (NMRI) will soon be a reality. Through coordinated working groups, the FDFA is currently preparing everything in order for the institution to take up its work next year. Central is and remains the appropriate financing. The planned structure of the NMRI will be presented to the public on December 1st 2022.

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16th of November 2022 | 2-4pm | Paulushaus, Blumenrain 24, Biel-Madretsch

Reading and Discussion with Leandra Bias on"Feminist Foreign Policy: Principles - Strengths - Weaknesses". The feminist foreign policy offers a different framework compared to previous approaches which were based on nation-interests. Women play an important part but are not the only ones.

Registration until November 14th here: sekretariatwhatever@frauenfuerdenfrieden.ch

29.09.2022 | 4pm | Online

Nonviolent Approaches to Security: Perspectives from Communities Around the World: If not military intervention (or militarized policing) when civilians are being threatened by violence, then what? You are invited to learn how communities are answering this question around the world.

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29.10.2022 | 6.30-8.30pm | Rue des Alpes 44, 1700 Fribourg

Are you planning to work in Africa or Latin America? Are you a qualified professional or a young graduate interested in international cooperation? This evening is for you: to better understand cooperation through the exchange of people and the conditions of assignments, to ask your questions and to get answers.

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19.10.2022 | 6-8 pm | Aula im PROGR, Bern

How can strategies to strengthen diversity become more sustainable and inclusive? How can a greater diversity contribute to reducing structural discrimination and where do we currently find need for action? At the penal discussion, these and other questions concerning the notion of diversity will be analyzed critically from different perspectives.

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