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GENEVA PEACE WEEK – “DIGITAL SPACES : RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEACE”
Principles for Peace, Fondation Hirondelle and ICT4Peace Foundation
2.11.2022
Digital spaces bring both risks and opportunities to peace. We can see it from Zimbabwe to Venezuela from Ukraine to the US, from Sri Lanka to Syria, and in many other places around the world. The objective of this workshop is to demonstrate the extent to which digital spaces can both contribute to and undermine the peace process. We will build on a research conducted in May 2022, based on a series of interviews and a consultation organized by Principles for Peace, Fondation Hirondelle and ICT4Peace Foundation.
Join our workshop and engage with our panellists: researchers, tech and media experts from around the world!
KITCHEN BATTLE
Cuisine sans frontières
Kitchen Battle Lucerne: 3-6.11.2022
Kitchen Battle Bern: 17-19.11.2022
The Kitchen Battle is a unique gastro-cultural event. Different teams, from haute cuisine to trendy pubs, cook live on stage, in front of and for the audience against each other.
And all this for a good cause:
To finance the projects of Cuisine sans frontières.
AUTUMN MEETING OF WOMEN FOR PEACE
16.11.2022
Feminist foreign policy increasingly refers to women’s and human rights. It strives to offer a policy for all. Is this more than wishful thinking, especially in today’s tumultuous times? Officially, it already exists in several countries. How can its impact be measured?
Leandra Bias (former swisspeace member, now employed by the University of Bern) knows about the strengths and weaknesses and does research on authoritarianism. The Autumn meeting of Women for Peace Switzerland offers a good occasion for an in-depth discussion.
INFORMATION EVENT
artasfoundation foundation
19.11.2022 at 2.30pm at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur
The Kunstmuseum Winterthur is currently hosting the exhibition “Art and War”. After a guided tour by the exhibition curator, we invite you to an aperitif in the foyer of the Kunstmuseum as well as to an informal conversation about our own work, where we approach the issue of art in conflict regions (less through artworks than through participatory artistic processes).
PRIVATE SECTOR ENGAGEMENT – FROM ASPIRATIONS TO REALITY
Helvetas Symposium (hybrid event)
23.11.2022, 2:30-8pm at Kursaal in Berne and online
Through partnerships with large companies, development organizations and donors hope to achieve impact and reach with their operations, as well as sustainability and innovation. This will be key for achieving the SDGs. At the same time, such collaborations carry risks, since goals and values of the unlike partners differ. What does it take to reach benefits for the poor and the companies, based on a sustainable use of natural resources? And how can mutual understanding be fostered and pitfalls be avoided?
FILMFESTIVAL FRAUENSTARK!
25.11 – 4.12.2022 in kult.kino, Theaterstrasse 7, Basel
The film festival takes place within the framework of the 16 Days Campaign on Violence against Women. A selection of events will be organized to complement some of the film screenings. The Ukrainian writer Eugenia Selik, the filmmaker Celina Escher as well as the film producer Sonja Kilbertus are some of the exciting guests who will give an in-depth insight into the topics of the respective film screenings.
Four screenings are reserved exclusively for school classes.
Films: The Letter, Clara Sola, La Mif, 107 Mothers, Stand Up My Beauty, Fly So Far, Among Us Women (premiere), Quo Vadis, Aida?
WORKSHOP ON PBI MISSIONS ABROAD
26.11.2022
Are you interested in working for human rights in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala or Colombia? Then register now for the workshop day and learn more about non-violent conflict resolution. The workshop is especially aimed at people who are interested in working abroad. But it is also open to those who are generally interested in PBI’s peace work. The workshop day will be bilingual, in French and German, depending on the composition of the group.
