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Geneva Peace Week (GPW) is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar, and the flagship event of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This year, the thematic focus of the week is "From seeds to systems of peace: Weathering today’s challenges".

1-5 November 2021

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The consequences of a digital breach can be deadly for human rights defenders. This workshop will review the digital security landscape and provide specific, flexible methods and tools to assess, prevent, and respond to security breaches and attacks. It will focus on mobile phone security, which is the primary communication and work device of many human rights defenders, who, during the pandemic, have become, in many parts of the world, more vulnerable to digital attacks when they suddenly had to shift most of their work online.

October 19, 3pm - 6pm

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Five years after the historic peace agreement between the former guerrilla FARC-EP and the Colombian government, various challenges remain: The implementation of the agreement is slow, threats against human rights defenders are increasing and social protests are shaking the country. Find out first-hand about the current human rights situation in the country.

September 29, 18.30 pm

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Would you like to advocate for threatened human rights defenders? PBI Guatemala is looking for new volunteers to work in the field.

Application deadline: August 1, 2021

Training week: December 5-11, 2021

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The GPP is a joint initiative of five Geneva-based peacebuilding actors: the Graduate Institute’s Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF), the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), Interpeace and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO). The Directors of these five organizations make up the Steering Committee that oversees the Management Committee. The Management Committee is looking to recruit an Executive Coordinator for the day-to-day management of the Platform and the implementation of its activities.

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This internship gives you the opportunity to get to know the international peace work of PeaceWomen Across the Globe and to work in communication, especially on the development of our new website, and in fundraising. In this way you will gain insight into the work of a small, committed, international NGO.

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Internship communication and event management: To strengthen our office in Zurich, we are looking for an intern in the field of communication and event management. The internship is paid, limited to four months and starting date ideally in the first half of August 2021.

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2021’s Creative Leadership conference will embark from the premise that creative leadership comes from the depths of our beings: in short, from who we are. Its inspiration comes from more than 250 changemakers in their 20s and 30s, of 98 nationalities, who have taken part in the Caux Peace and Leadership Programme (CPLP). The conference is for everyone who wants to grow by looking within, to connect with changemakers from around the world and to help to redefine the concept of ‘leader’.

July 25 - July 31 (online)

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The exhibition "Escape to Freedom" shows drawings of children and young people seeking asylum. What is going on in the minds of children and young people seeking asylum? What connects me with the children and young people who have fled? We look for the causes of flight, think about how we can communicate with people who have fled without a common language, and look for points of contact between our everyday lives and those of the young people who have fled.

Basel, June 7 to 30, 2021

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From 4-7 May, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are organizing the 2021 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development on the theme ‘Promoting Peace in the Age of Compound Risk’. Interpeace is delighted to participate in the annual forum which will explore novel approaches and solutions to promoting peace in the age of compound political, social, economic and environmental risks reinforced by COVID-19.

Bridging Health, Peace and Security (May 7, 14.00-15.15 CET

Shifting the Paradigm: Power and Responsibility (May 5, 12.30-13.45 CEST)