Initiatives of Change International has published a 16-page full-colour report on the International Caux Conferences 2007.

The dates and themes of the international Caux conferences 2008 are available. The conferences under the title ‘Addressing the Root Causes of Human Insecurity’ will take place from 3 July to 17 August 2008 in Caux.

Issue 7 of Global Update, the newsletter published by Initiatives of Change International is now available.

‘Remaking the World in a Palace’ is the title for a series of radio programmes all this week on ‘Espace 2’ of ‘Radio Suisse Romande’ (the second French language Swiss public service channel). The programme ‘A vue d’esprit’ (‘in the Spirit’s eye’) is drawn on a three-day visit to the Initiatives of Change conference centre in Caux this summer by journalist Jean-Christophe Emery, during the conference ‘A Grassroots Dialogue of Civilizations’.

The international Caux conferences 2007 entitled ‘Trust across the World’s Divides? Dignity for All?’ from 5 July – 19 August have been attended by 1490 participants from all over the world. The conferences 2008 will take place from 3 July - 17 August.

‘Religion, culture and belief – are they factors for peace or for conflict?’ was the theme of the third day of the ‘Agenda for Reconciliation’ conference at the Initiatives of Change centre in Caux, Switzerland.

A leading Egyptian activist today called for human security centred on the individual. Dr Aleya El Bindari Hammad from Egypt, former Executive Director of the World Health Organization, and a founding member of the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement, was speaking today at the Initiatives of Change international conference centre in Caux, Switzerland.

'Borders will be irrelevant in 20 years time – that is the story of tomorrow,' Sushobha Barve, an Indian peace activist, and Director of the New Delhi-based Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation said today at an international conference in Switzerland, on the eve of the anniversary of Indian and Pakistani independence.

'I have a dream that all the world’s indigenous peoples will take their rightful place in the global society,' said Ray Minniecon, an Australian Aboriginal leader, speaking on the United Nations International Day of the World's Indigenous People, at the Initiatives of Change conference centre in Caux, Switzerland.

‘The indigenous peoples of the world have become a time bomb which can explode at any moment,’ Dr Visier Sanyü, from Nagland, in North-East India, warned, giving a Caux Lecture on the United Nations International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, at the Initiatives of Change conference centre in Caux, Switzerland.