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Is digital privacy really a private matter?

Despite the data privacy law known as GDPR which empowers online users to protect their private information, I blindy click “I accept” roughly twenty times a day, just to get access to what I want and...

Patrick Worms: Hard issues in a magical setting

Five years ago, Patrick Worms was sharing his passion for the power of agroforestry in development at the European Parliament. His friend, Hartmut Behrend from the German Bundeswehr, saw an unmissable...

Human Library: Face to face against racism in Vevey and Montreux

For the 2019 European Action Week against Racism, IofC facilitated two human libraries in Montreux and Vevey, offering face-to-face interactions on the links between discrimination, immigration and un...

Alan Channer: A film-maker’s calling to 'land, lives and peace'

Alan Channer was working on a peace project in Baringo County, in the drylands of northern Kenya, when he received an invitation to a conference on ‘Restoring Earth’s Degraded Land’ in Caux, Switzerla...

Initiatives for Land, Lives, Peace at UN Climate Summit in Katowice

‘We are not doing enough to prevent irreversible and catastrophic climate disruption …this is the challenge on which our generation’s leaders will be judged’. With these words, UN Secretary General An...

Meeting the person behind the extremist views

Storytelling forms a central part of the yearly summer Caux Forum. One of the most dramatic stories this year was that of former neo-Nazi Peter Sundin from Sweden. When he spoke in the main hall in Ca...

Discover the highlights of Addressing Europe's Unfinished Business 2018!

Highlights of Addressing Europe's Unfinished Business 2018 in video

Discover the Highlights of Ethical Leadership in Business 2018!

Check out the highlights of Ethical Leadership in Business 2018.

The role of journalists in a country at war

What is the role of a journalist in a country at war? With many of his compatriots thinking that journalists should be information warriors, finding the answer to this question is an everyday struggle...

Young European Muslims learn to be peacemakers

Young Muslims and non-Muslims from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK took part in the Learning to be a Peacemaker course at the Caux Palac...

CDLS Round Table Declaration 2018

Discover the declaration by the participants of the Caux Dialogue on Land and Security 2018.

CDLS Round Table Declaration 2018

Gender Perspectives in peacemaking: Addressing extremism inclusively and holistically

During a workshop over three days’ time at Towards an Inclusive Peace, Melinda Holmes, senior adviser and program manager with the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), taught participant...

Restoring communities to achieve sustainable peace

Violent extremism touches communities around the globe. There is a need for ways to reintegrate those who have committed violent extremist acts back into their communities. So Towards an Inclusive Pea...