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1954 - Saidie Patterson: ‘Bury the hatchet or bury the dead’

When Saidie Patterson, a trades union organizer from Northern Ireland, spoke at the conference centre at Caux in 1954, she was keen to point out that Moral Re-Armament (now Initiatives of Change) had ...
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1954 - Saidie Patterson: ‘Bury the hatchet or bury the dead’
Saidie Patterson

1953 – Mohamed Masmoudi: 'Stop cursing the French!'

In 1953, Mohamed Masmoudi, a young Tunisian nationalist living a semi-clandestine existence, came to Caux, more or less smuggled across the border into Switzerland. At Caux, he lost his hatred of the ...
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1953 – Mohamed Masmoudi: 'Stop cursing the French!'
Mohamed Masmouti

1952 - Elsbeth and Adam McLean: A Caux wedding

When Elsbeth Spoerry from Switzerland helped to clean up the derelict Caux Palace for the first conference in 1946, she could hardly have guessed that, six years later, she would get married there to ...
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1952 - Elsbeth and Adam McLean: A Caux wedding
Maclean wedding Caux 1958 square

1951 - Maurice Mercier: 'Not one cry of hatred'

‘He would have looked at home serving behind a bar down the street,’ the Swiss Jean-Jacques Odier wrote of his first meeting with Maurice Mercier in the offices of France’s Force Ouvrière textile work...
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1951 - Maurice Mercier: 'Not one cry of hatred'
Maurice Mercier 1951

How to make video calls more human and successful

A year ago, video conferencing became the new normal in our work lives. It was the safest place for us to meet and collaborate. It seemed so easy: just invite someone to join the call and continue as...
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How to make video calls more human and successful
Online computer, credit: Chris Montgomery on Unsplash

We need you!

Do you prefer online or in-person events? Check out our survey and help us understand when to hold an event online or when to organize events in person.
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We need you!
Survey square EN

The best of both cultures

'I realized that having two cultures is not a burden but a richness and that I am lucky to be able to take the best of both.' - Charlotte Rémié discovered Initiatives of Change through her parents in ...
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The best of both cultures
CPLP Charlotte Rémié

Getting comfortable under my skin

'I now look at myself in the mirror differently. I am slowly getting comfortable under my skin.' - Tinotenda Dean Nyota from Gweru, Zimbabwe, took part in the CPLP in 2018. He is an Economics graduat...
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Getting comfortable under my skin
CPLP Tino

Find your own style of leadership to change the world

'I realized that I could make a difference in the world.’- Find out how Maria set up a library in a remote community in Colombia to fight illiteracy and help children write stories which transmit thei...
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Find your own style of leadership to change the world
CL Maria Romero Project Colombia hut

Nick Foster becomes Co-Director General of Initiatives of Change Switzerland

Nick Foster, until now Caux Forum Director, will take over the role of Co-Director of IofC Switzerland, alongside Stephanie Buri. After nine years with Initiatives of Change (IofC) and one year as the...
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Nick Foster becomes Co-Director General of Initiatives of Change Switzerland
Nick Foster

1950 - Yukika Sohma: 'Japan can become reborn'

The Japanese flag was flying outside the conference centre as 64 Japanese arrived in Caux in 1950. It was a moving moment as back in Japan, still under American occupation, displaying the flag was for...
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1950 - Yukika Sohma: 'Japan can become reborn'
Yukaki Shoma young

The art of making a difference to the climate crisis

‘Artists are uniquely positioned to face what is happening to the climate, to reimagine the world and create a new narrative,’ says Sveinung Nygaard (Sven), a Norwegian composer and musician. He was i...
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The art of making a difference to the climate crisis
CDES 2020 IofC Bards meditation bowl square

1949 - Max Bladeck: Beyond class war

Max Bladeck joined the Communist Party as a young German coal miner in the 1920s. He remained loyal during the Hitler years when tens of thousands of communists were imprisoned or lost their lives. By...
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1949 - Max Bladeck: Beyond class war
Max Bladeck

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