By Gintare Karalyte (GIGI)

(Photo: Gintare Karalyte)Life is short Consisted of moments which sometimes pass by unnoticed Time ticks, and people rush through their life without a moment of reflective peace.

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by Martin Baumann

I have been attending most plenaries and some of the workstreams and there have been some inspiring thoughts passed around. But still, with most discussions I felt that we just scratched the surface of the core issues, that we haven't really nailed down some critical ideas or points that need to be addressed for some change to come about. Particularly some discussions were merely mapping out the different complexities in a certain human security issue, but we haven't dwelled on them long enough to really achieve a new level of understanding.

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A moment of peace and grace this morning. A church service, with a Black American Baptist, and young Methodist woman arriving at the end of her studies to become a minister, and myself, an Anglo-Swiss Reformed lay-preacher. As we come down the hill to breakfast, we see the preparations for the running race from Montreux to the top of the Rochers de Naye: madmen must be born every day! Caux is the half-way mark... the same again to the top... We see our Catholic brothers and sisters coming down from the Catholic chapel, where they’ve had a mass with an African Bishop. He’d met me on his way...

An ‘official day’ today, with friends from the neighbourhood, local and national authorities, diplomats from Geneva and Bern. Pierre Helg, Deputy State Secretary for Foreign Affairs brought the greetings of the Swiss Federal authorities. ‘The Swiss government is proud to support the Caux Forum and Initiatives of Change,’ Helg said, a support going back to 2005, in Burundi. ‘Since then, our partnership has expanded and deepened,’ he went on.

‘We particularly welcome the view of human security adopted by the Forum,’ he continued, saluting the ‘broad perspective’ and ‘a...

By Susan Korah

Caux is a world unto itself. And what a world! A mountain village of breathtaking beauty where one can actually experience in a very real way, the ideal world one dreams about. A world where young and old, Black and White, Christian Jew, Hindu and Buddhist, believers and non-believers, liberals and conservatives live and work together, share experiences, hopes and dreams in peace and an atmosphere of incredible trust for a week or a whole summer. Where the rising sun’s rays filtering in through one’s bedroom window, invite even the weariest...

Par Anne-Claire Huet

La conférence se termine demain, le temps passe tellement vite… Il faut dire que le contexte, les thèmes, le lieu, les personnes prêtent à perdre toute notion du temps ! Lundi, nous avons eu la chance de vivre un panel avec Annemarie Sancar (experte sur les questions liées à l’intégration, au genre et à la culture) et Samia Allalou (chercheuse sur la thématique des enjeux liés à l’information sur les droits des femmes). Au-delà du fait que je devais...

Par Mélanie Courvoisier

Annemarie Sancar, conseillère dans le domaine du genre à la DDC et Samia Allalou, journaliste et membre du réseau solidaire "Femmes sous lois musulmanes", ont mené une conférence sur le thème du droit des femmes dans une société multiculturelle. Elles nous livrent leur vision du féminisme.

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by Amy Shultz

When I first learned that I had been accepted as one of the Communications Assistants with CAUX-Initiatives of Change, I was filled with a mixture of emotions. Immediately I was thrilled. Who wouldn't love the opportunity to spend 8 weeks in the summer in the Swiss Alps? I was 100% excited for the opportunity. However, as the days passed and my friends and family started making summer plans, I felt I would miss the best time of the year. I would miss the 4th of July and fireworks and picnics. I would miss summer vacations at the beach and get-togethers with...

Elise Bancon

Bernard Defrance, dans son intervention sur les droits de l’enfant dans une société multiculturelle, attirait l’attention du public sur une phrase que l’on prononce souvent lorsque l’on veut éduquer les jeunes au respect de l’autre : « Ta liberté s’arrête là où commence celle de l’autre. »

Cette phrase, qui s’applique autant au champ de l’éducation qu’à celui du multiculturel, implique un conflit entre ma liberté et...