The Gerald Durrell Legacy: My career and other animals
This article also has been published in the Oct/Nov 2017 print and e-edition of Global Geneva magazine.
Children hate going to bed. They always want to stay up for just another few minutes, and a few more. ...
How dangerous is it to question the local powers in France? Clochemerle turns nasty.
Two years ago, bulldozers knocked down a clutch of 17th, 18th and 19th century building in Cessy, a once attractive French village in the Pays de Gex region near Geneva. The buildings were hardly in great...
Israel: Fifty years of shrinking democracy
Geneva Hub is open to any member of the Global Geneva Support Community or guest writer at the invitation of the editors. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation, which selected Physicians for Human Rights -...
MPs bet on water diplomacy – and CERN – for the Middle East
This article was first published in the Oct/Nov 2017 print and e-edition of Global Geneva magazine.
FOR THE GENEVA-BASED INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION, the Middle East, particularly the Israeli-Palestinian question, has always remained a sensitive if not...
Writing – or attending literary events – in Switzerland
The following article may serve as an inspiration for those attending the Geneva Book Fair, visiting Switzerland or simply living in the region.
The literary urge kicks into top gear as summer approaches. The Fondation...
International Geneva: Already a leader in the next Industrial Revolution
The World Economic Forum's Klaus Schwab calls it the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It's the one that will do away with middle-class and professional jobs as we know them. It has been described as a...
Mediating Blue Peace in the Middle East
This article was first published in the Oct/Nov 2017 print and e-edition of Global Geneva magazine.
SWITZERLAND’S ABUNDANCE OF WATER “is one reason why we consider it our responsibility to act and to provide expertise...
Dealing with poop: the virtues of perfume
The American doctor was standing in the shade of an acacia tree, scarcely shielded from the blistering midday heat of a Somali refugee camp. Working for Oxfam, he was carefully taking samples from a...
France’s Nicolas Hulot: Placing the Titanic Syndrome in the forefront
“I didn’t start out as an ecologist,” Nicolas Hulot says, “I became one.” Still boyish and exuberant, with an ever-engaging smile at 62, Hulot has definitely made up for lost time. He is single handedly...
CIVITAS MAXIMA—A Tiny Swiss Group of Lawyers Takes on War crimes and Crimes Against...
Since the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened for business 15 years ago only four cases have been successfully tried. The ICC was originally intended to be an updated, modern version of the Nuremburg trials...
Making food systems work through 4SD
Agent Provocateur is Global Geneva's Oped Section. This article is scheduled to be published in the November, 2018 - January 2019 print and e-edition of the magazine.
Over the past decade, the importance of proper...
Letter from Nicaragua: Volunteering to help – but also to learn.
BREAKING IN is a column for young people to share their experiences, including volunteering or interning.
IF YOU HAVE EVER THOUGHT OF VOLUNTEERING, DO IT! You won’t regret it. After finishing my Master’s and having...
Fifa’s Shame : Kidnapping the Game
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end the Germans always win. Or so maintained Gary Lineker, the popular TV commentator and former England international. He...
Letter from Rwanda: A Privileged Engagement
The following article is scheduled to be published in the November, 2018-January 2019 print/e-edition of Global Geneva magazine.
“Good morning, teacher,” faintly echoes. I squint my eyes against the piercing sunlight, searching for the source...
Project 1800: Saving the SDGs – and the world
“There is simply not enough capital in the current paradigm. We need to reframe capitalism,” observes Arthur Wood, the Geneva-based international development consultant who convened Project 1800. The Swiss Development Corporation (SDC) recently underwrote...
The Short Story: American Lottery
Global Geneva is initiating a new component focusing on creative writing. The following is an excerpt from the short story ‘American Lottery’ by award-winning author Gazmend M. Kapllani. This was published in the June-September 2018...
Death of a Translator – Putting PTSD on the front page
This article also has appeared in the Oct/Nov 2017 print and e-edition of Global Geneva magazine.
Most foreign correspondents covering conflicts and humanitarian crises, including those who somewhat presumptuously dub themselves “war reporters”, like to imagine that...
Knocking it all down: French property developers dictate Lake Geneva’s urban vision
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.”
(Joni Mitchell: Yellow Taxi)
Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring may, or may not, have said: “Whenever...
The 2018 Geneva Book Fair: Linking Geneva with New York
This year’s guest of honour is New York, so there will be various activities, including writers, representing U.S. publishing activities. While the Geneva Salon represents the world’s second largest French-language book fair, it also...
How Alpine Resorts are Coping with Climate Change
As a child visiting Switzerland with my family during the summer holidays in the 1960s, I used to spend a month in Riederalp, a 2000-meter high resort in the Upper Valais overlooking the Rhone...
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Revisiting life after genocide.
The following article was published in the June-September 2018 Summer print & e-edition of Global Geneva.
FOR 43-YEAR-OLD KRISTIAN SKEIE, “Life After Genocide” is a general headline that he has been using for the past...
The Yazidis : Life after Genocide
Hajji Mirza is from Tel Azar. Now he and his family are condemned to live in a tent in Khanke, a refugee camp with over 16,000 people near Dohuk in northern Iraq. “For 20...
Libya’s Worsening Turmoil – Bad for Everyone
Five years ago this February I was among the first foreign journalists to arrive in Benghazi, the city in eastern Libya that had just birthed the uprising that would eventually bring an end to...
Chantal Akerman – In search of lost culture
In 2022 one of her productions has been voted the greatest film of all time by British Film Institute experts Perhaps I should not have been shocked...
Jeff Danziger – A cartoonist on the political frontline
This article is part of our Global Genevans section to be published in the Autumn, 2018 print and e-edition.
Not long after the Soviets left Afghanistan in early 1989, Jeff Danziger, then working for The...
Chamonix: France’s premier – and almost Swiss – mountain capital
The following article is scheduled to be published in Global Geneva's Nov. 2018 - January 2018 print and e-edition.
Upon their return home, Windham and Pococke’s gushing tales found favour in the European press. The...
