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Natural resources are essential for human survival, serve as a primary source of livelihood for many, and are vital to the functioning of economies and societies worldwide. What conflicts can arise from competition for these resources, and how can peacebuilding organizations address them? KOFF members discuss this topic in the latest edition of the à propos magazine.

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Applications are now open for three programme assistant positions at QUNO Geneva from September 2023 to August 2024 in Human Rights & Refugees (HRR); Peace & Disarmament (PD); and Human Impacts of 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 UN. They are open to Quakers and those in sympathy with Quaker values. The closing date for applications is 20 April 2023.

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April 15 | 10:30am-1:30pm | Breitenrainstrasse 59, 3013 Bern

The monthly GSoA Coordination Meeting is coming up. During these meeting decisions on GSoA's work are made. The meeting is public and everyone who is interested is invited to join!

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April 20-29, 2023, Bern

This year the Tour de Lorraine focuses on the thematic area of peace and war, violence and non-violence, security and solidarity. The Swiss Platform for Peacebuilding KOFF is actively contributing to the event series and organizes different events and workshops. We are delighted that so many KOFF member organizations are facilitating workshops and invite you to participate!

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This Essential summarizes our key findings of an internal assessment of Joint Learning Processes (JLP), a peacebuilding methodology and practice developed by us. This Essential aims to identify and capitalize on the lessons learnt from previous JLPs to improve the accessibility, relevance, and impact of joint learning in the platform, as well as to share our experiences with this methodology with a wider audience.

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The purpose of this publication by Helvetas is to illustrate what conflict sensitivity looks like in practice. It presents a collection of experiences from Helvetas staff around the world. The 39 examples from 15 countries cover all Helvetas’ working areas. They illustrate the different ways in which our interventions can have unintended effects in the social contexts in which we operate and how staff acted to prevent potential negative impacts of our work or adapted when tensions did arise.

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After 25 years of dicussions and work the NMRI will be founded in May 2023. This also implies a turning point for humanrights.ch. Besides its own new orientation, humanrights.ch seeks to hand over its database with basic documentation of human rights and their implementation in Switzerland.

Learn more in the interview with Marianne Aeberhard

The CAS “Arts and International Cooperation” brings artists and members of international cooperation organizations from the Global South and North together. They have an interest in the potential of art to support processes of social transformation and peacebuilding, as well as the commitment to a fair and sensitive common international cooperation in common.

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March 27, 2023 | 7-9pm | Gartenhofstrasse 7, Zurich

The next Café de la Paix will consist of reports from three countries in the Horn of Africa. Abel Atsbeha will speak about Ethiopia and the war in Tigray. Pheben Asgehedom will give insights to Eritrea and the current situation and Bashir Gobdon will report on Somalia and the famine there.

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The new magazine from terre des hommes focuses on the topic of decolonization and asks how development work can be done at eye level. Moreover, it includes an article on projects for youth in El Salvador.

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