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08.11.2022 | 6-8pm | Kirchgemeindehaus Paulus, Freiestrasse 8, 3012 Bern

The integration parcours "A lioness on the move" is taking place in the framework of a workshop talk of the cfd-project "Migrants in the networks of the working world - career mentoring". The participants can expect an interesting change of sides on their journey through the integration parcours. At four stops they experience what qualified migrants go through when integrating in Switzerland.

More information and registration by the 4th of November.

The "Frauen* für den Frieden Schweiz" are looking for support for their editorial team, which plans and designs the "Frauenstimme", a quarterly-published magazine. Do you have interests in the area of peace policies, are you good at writing and would like to use the opportunity to bring in creative ideas to a small team? They are not looking for a perfect person, but some continuity would be nice.

Please contact the secretariat with Suzanne Schwarz.

In the quarterly magazine "global" Alliance Sud offers commentary and critical analysis of Swiss development and foreign policy. The current edition of "global" informs about the "Tonnage Tax" - tax reforms which might become a serious case of tax money dumping.

Interested? Read the current global #87

For its job-mentoring-programme cfd is looking for mentors with the following professions: biologists, business administrators, nutritionists, lawyers, computer scientists, accountants, and agronomists. Would you like to support our mentees with your knowledge and network? Please contact Theodora Leite Stampfli (theodora.leite@cfd-ch.org).

More information on the mentoring programme

The current medico-Bulletin focuses on the topic of "Feminism and Health". medico international Switzerland understands the right to health care holistically. For medico international Switzerland, women's health is more then a health related topic. It becomes a political issue as it questions and reconfirms patriarchal and common patterns of thought and action. And it does not only need female perspectives on health care but feminist perspectives which include the rights of all people.

Read the medico-Bulletin here

The IofC Annual Report 2021 is now available online.

2021 was a challenging year. Initiatives of Change Switzerland responded to the challenges of 2021 by bringing people together virtually both to honour the past and to chart new courses into the future. In the annual report you can discover the latest news and view videos and reports of last year’s Caux Forum Online.

Read the report

Curious how art, peace, and the future come together? Register for the KOFF Peace Conference now! In four thematic workshops, an artistic future scenario, and a fishbowl panel, we will address questions such as: What does civil society expect from Swiss peace policy? Which hot topics must be part of the (global) peace and security agenda? How to seize opportunities and navigate challenges around Switzerland’s non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council?

For more information and registration click here.

Wednesday | 14.09.2022 | 3-5 pm

KOFF roundtable on media & information in the context of the war in Ukraine and other peace and security trends. The roundtable provides a space for KOFF members to exchange knowledge on the role of media, conspiracy theories, and preservation of open-source content for dealing with the past during conflict, and to jointly reflect on how multiple truths can exist at once in relation to misinformation. External partners are welcome to join these reflections.

Learn more and register

What are the different identities and positionalities represented within the KOFF platform? What impact do they have on existing conflicts and peacebuilding? This à propos issue engages with the demands for decolonization, racial and gender justice and how they have affected the work, power dynamics and values of KOFF organizations.

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Building on the KOFF Master Class on Urban Peacebuilding, terre des hommes schweiz and KOFF organized a roundtable discussion on the impact of urban police violence on community life in Brazil, as well as the ways in which civil society and researchers from the peripheries respond to it.

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