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Curious, how arts, peace, and the future come together? Join our Peace Conference on 21 September 2022 to discuss and explore perspectives, experiences, and opportunities for peacebuilding in thematic workshops. These will inform an artistic future scenario that takes us to the year 2049, and back to today, to a panel discussion in the evening.

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How can our organizations cope with the shrinking spaces for civil society? This à propos issue provides an overview of the current space left to civil society and the approaches and methods used by KOFF organizations and their partners to create new spaces or defend existing ones.

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At the Ilanzer Sommer 2022 we will create space and time for encounters, debates and mutual motivation to work for peace on both a small and a large scale. Together with you, we want to give peace a voice in the midst of the calls for rearmament. Together with you we want to practise again and again to live this peace ourselves.

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Terre des hommes has launched its Child Labour Report 2022. It describes how COVID-19 affected the lives of children and what measures are necessary to build back better from their point of view.

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The KOFF 2021 annual report provides an overview of how KOFF has begun to implement its 2021 - 2024 strategy. A look back at 2021 - especially against the backdrop of Russia's war against Ukraine - shows how central the KOFF's strategic accents (political relevance, joint learning processes and internal networking) are.

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Event series 'Mission - Colonialism Revisited' What role did Christian missionary societies play in the context of colonialism? In loose succession, Mission 21 brings the multi-layered history of mission and colonialism into focus in order to sharpen the focus for the current social debate on racism and discrimination.

Next event: "Mission: Religious Imperialism and/or Cultural Imperialism?"

19 May 2022, 6-7.30pm

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This Policy Brief summarizes the reflections and recommendations of Swiss civil society and its partners on the question of how socio-economic barriers, and the conditions under which care work in particular is performed, hinder women’s participation in political and peace processes in Switzerland and abroad. It sheds light on three care-related obstacles to women’s participation: the underfunded care economy, the overburdening of women through care work and gender roles that promote stereotypes that “naturalize” and devalue the provision of care and hence minimize women’s predisposition to feel confident enough to participate in political processes.

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Because our colleague is developing internally, we are looking to recruit a Institutional Fundraising Officer (70%).

You will be responsible for the development of our project partnerships. Contributions from foundations, cantons, municipalities and churches are an important pillar for the financing of our projects abroad and in Switzerland.

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Interested in the human impact on climate change & sustainability, peace & disarmament or human rights & refugees? And in contributing to our work at the United Nations?

Then this might just be what you are looking for: applications are now open for three programme assistant positions at QUNO in Geneva from September 2022 to August 2023 in Human Rights & Refugees (HRR); Peace & Disarmament (PD); and 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 United Nations.

The closing date for applications is 2 May 2022.

QUNO Geneva invites applications for Programme Assistantships | QUNO

An inter-faith conversation with experts from the Islamic, Christian and Jewish religious communities on racism and anti-racism in religions. What does racism have to do with religion? And why are people discriminated against because of their religious affiliation? What elements within a religion can be a resource for mutual respect?

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