As COP29 opens in Baku, advocates for climate action, including Initiatives of Change, push for bold, actionable policy recommendations to address the urgent link between climate change, conflict and peacebuilding.
Working in collaboration with THE HUS and The System Change Foundation, Initiatives of Land, Lives and Peace (ILLP) - the team behind the Caux Dialogue on Environment and Security - is bringing together policy-makers, community leaders, activists,…
As part of the programme of Geneva Peace Week 2021, Initiatives of Change Switzerland and the Peace and Human Rights Division of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) co-organize a webinar on 'Building peace through improved land…
The theme of 2020’s Geneva Peace Week was ‘Rebuilding Trust after Disruption: pathways to reset international cooperation’. On 6 November, Initiatives of Change and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy held an online panel discussion on ‘…
A two-hour Zoom panel discussion, followed by questions and answers, and a final synthesis by the panellists. Moderator: Luc Gnacadja.
The Water Warriors, a collaboration between experts and activists in India, Sweden and Kenya to share water management solutions across the globe. Rishabh Khanna from IofC's Initiatves for Land, Lives and Peace (ILLP) programme describes the Water…
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,…
In the context of a drought that has put three million people in need of emergency food aid and killed millions of livestock, the second annual ‘International Dialogue on Land and Human Security in Kenya’ was held in an effort to mitigate conflict…
Peace is all about actions. It is a daily effort put forward by individuals and groups to set institutional, economic, social and cultural standards and boundaries, according to their own realities, to progressively upraise human dignity. It’s not…
Humanity faces three enormous, inter-related challenges in the 21st century: mitigating the impact of climate change, feeding the world’s population and preserving the integrity of the planet’s ecosystems.