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 opportunity, and insisted that Patrick come to…
ILLP aims to deepen understanding of links between land degradation and human security and to build the trust needed for effective collaboration on the ground and in ‘land-peace partnerships’. As a programme of Initiatives of Change International,…
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, Switzerland in July 2011. The conference was the…
Dear friends, colleagues and all those who have been connected and involved in CATS. - Children as Actors Transforming Society, over the past years: CATS has come to an end.
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 quickly. It’s not a sign of trust, but rather me…
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 Caux during Addressing Europe’s Unfinished Business…
Oana Dinea is a concert pianist from Romania, currently based in Geneva. She took part in the Caux Peace and Leadership Programme 2018.
In a time when the world is agonizingly looking for leaders of dignity and wisdom, it comes with great sadness that shortly after losing Kofi Annan, we have now also lost his close friend and mentor Mohamed Sahnoun. World-renowned diplomat, former…
The 2017 edition of CATS (Children as Actors for Transforming Society), part of the Caux Forum, saw the launch of the 90 Day Challenge. The idea was simple: CATS participants thoroughly explored their ideas for a range of topics including the…