La Genève humanitaire immortalisée dans La mesure de l’impossible
Edition Française: « Je n’aime pas le théâtre ». Cette affirmation en ouverture d’une œuvre théâtrale n’est pas banale. Ennuyeux le théâtre ? Il peut l’être parfois. Sauf lorsque le sixième art, celui de la...
Crimes and punishments of radical artists in Putin’s Russia
“All political prisoners face a Golgotha, a crucifixion,” Krisevich said. “There are thousands of them.” The burning papers in his November 5 performance, Krisevich explained, represent the volumes of indictments fabricated by...
GENEVA BUILDING BRIDGES EVENT: Leveraging International Switzerland to the World
From systemic failure to systems rebirth - Reinforcing and Leveraging the existing Geneva / Swiss Bridge to the World for larger commercial and social impact - A physical event of the...
Money Heist: jumpsuit populism
Money Heist is not about the money, of course. Its Spanish title, La casa de papel (the House of Paper), with its hint at the 2013-2018 series on political corruption and Netflix’s...
Could better-funded journalism have prevented the pandemic?
What is so ironic is that had donor governments, foundations, corporations and private individuals with means bothered to support independent news organizations at a time when credible journalism is in crisis with...
Nobel Peace Prize 2022: recognizing courageous human rights defenders
The Norwegian Nobel Committee honours some consistent efforts in favour of humanist values, anti-militarism and principles of law.
This year’s Peace...
Pan(dem)ic policies: what WTO can do
“Export restrictions really provide a false sense of security,” says Anabel Gonzales, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “They raise prices, they discourage investment and they invite retaliation. They...
Focus on Afghanistan: The “Tali-Bans’ of the past: waiting for the new decrees.
The first edition of the Crosslines Essential Field Guide to Afghanistan, which was published in 1998 during the height of the first Taliban era (1996-2001), quickly became known as the “Taliban edition.”...
The Protean Self
The American psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton suggests that the most resilient Protean personalities of all may be our African Americans.
Lifton saw the growing partisan divide in America as...
Take the Rilke 2023 Swiss Tour challenge and you can win a prize!
Farrol's new book on Rilke in Switzerland marks the centenary of a key work by the poet.
The 2021 Martin Ennals Award: Yu Wensheng of China
Updated: 1850 Hours. Thursday, 11 February, 2021. The Awards ceremony, including profile videos of the three finalists, can be watched HERE.
Agent Provocateur is Global Geneva’s op-ed column for quality...
Metin Arditi et le onzième commandement: Quand obéir c’est trahir
Un écrivain francophone, d’origine turque, de confession juive et résidant dans la Cité de Calvin doit-il une loyauté sans faille à Israël ? Pour répondre à cette question, Metin...
Whitney Azoy’s Afghanistan: A Partial Comprehension – tales and photos from the pre-war
When National Geographic Magazine commissioned me during the early 2000s to do a story that would ‘reveal’ Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S.-led NATO occupation, I was somewhat panicked. As with...
The Switzerland-China Agreement: the dangers of becoming Beijing’s security satellite
Switzerland's
latest "lives for money" scheme with the People's Republic of China
has the Bern government offering to sacrifice basic civil liberties of
individuals residing and seeking asylum on its soil – — with neither...
Outgrowing capitalism: a Geneva expert shows how and why we should do it
Universal Basic Income (UBI) is definitely part of the answer Marco Dondi proposes for the multiple crises facing developed as well as developing countries. But the management specialist worries that setting the...
Basel’s uneasy cross-border relationship with Nazi Germany 1933-1945
As a baby boomer of Swiss origin born in the United States, I was always fascinated by Switzerland’s survival role as a neutral country during World War II. My British-educated father, who...
Building Bridges – but lacking participatory public interest media
Quality journalism initiatives should be automatically included in any serious discussion about corporate engagement.
The premise is excellent. Bring together what...
In Squandered Eden, Paradise Lost
Whether the pen is still mightier than the sword is a tossup. But bulldozers beat them both hands down. Once monster machines ravage nature, there is no going back. And in the...
Bruno Barbey: Disappearance of a photographic great
For over five decades, Bruno Barbey photographed across five continents for major international magazines, such as TIME-LIFE, Paris Match and Stern. He also published over 30 books. What he has left is...
The Geneva Film Festival & Censored Chinese History: The Story of Chi Xiaoning and...
Before the 1980s, documentary films in China were mostly propaganda made to serve the ideological purposes of the Communist Party. Views critical of the party were prohibited. Only one official voice could...
Afghanistan: time for a more representative peace with Swiss mediation
By Edward Girardet & Peter Jouvenal
Editorial Note: Please note that all U.S. troops are now expected to quit Afghanistan by 11 September 2021 although some contractors may remain....
Christine Brooke-Rose: International Geneva’s invisible author
Christine Brooke-Rose (1923-2012), born in Geneva but in retirement a long-time resident of Lou Jas in Les Maquignons (The Horsedealers), near Avignon in Provence, was almost certainly the most erudite and inventive...
Enrico Letta : « Nous avons sous-estimé l’impact de la crise économique »
EDITION FRANCAISE : Le temps est-il venu pour la Suisse et l’Union européenne de renouer le dialogue ?
Oui. La crise internationale et l’aide commune apportée à la résistance ukrainienne...
Accountability is about leadership, not mechanisms.
Agent Provocateur is the oped section of Global Insights.
At the core of the problem is that we can’t decide what accountability to affected people (AAP) means. The result is...
Back to the Cold War
Putin may survive this round, but the post-Ukraine world he has created is not going to be the same. To start with, nothing that Putin says from here on out will have...
In France, a Mission to Uncivilize
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Also see his latest book: Saving the world from Trump.
Conflict, climate and...
Fake news + fake history: All quiet on the Oscar Front
How much grue is enough?
Only literal-minded moviegoers like myself expect ‘realistic’ films to be factually accurate. But with some ‘historical’ movies, it’s shocking how much inaccuracy some...
Focus on Afghanistan: The country’s ‘Businesswoman of the Year’ escapes from Kabul.
Like a Horror Movie
It is Monday, 16 August 2021. Hassina Syed, who is 41, is in central Kabul when her mobile phone rings. Her friend screams, shouting into...
Unraveling the American Myth
Evangelicals: Putting the ‘Ass’ in ‘Compassion’. Many evangelical leaders have gone all-in for President Donald Trump. Down the road, that could backfire and hopefully cost them — and other religious organizations...
International Geneva: Missed Opportunities, New Possibilities
Observers warn that UNOG is now in danger of receding into another failed League of Nations.
Today, many observers fear that...
Democracy – Quo Vadimus — Where Do We Go?
What connects both incidents is a growing sense that the political polarization gripping the country has begun to shake the very foundations of law and order, of civilized behavior itself. In this...
The ex-monk and the Thai sex mafia: helping victims find another way
We have selected Hartanto Gunawan as one of our Global Genevans. These are inspired individuals, such as French water wizard Alain Gachet, Danish environmentalist Inger Andersen or Swiss ornithologist Luc Hoffmann,...
Jimmy and Joe
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Global Insights Magazine/Global Geneva Group are supporting Mort’s insightful and frank reporting from different parts of...
Switzerland’s re-opening: Everyone for themselves
Agent Provocateur is Global Insight Magazine's oped component. This is open to invited writers or those organizations that contribute to Global Geneva Group. All content, however, must meet our editorial standards.
Avraham Burg: A federal system for Israel
“I would like to explore the possibility of introducing the federal system in Israel” Avraham Burg
In a lecture at the Global Studies Institute
(GSI) you explained why the...
Femmes en Suisse et dans le monde: – – – ...
Les 17 Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) et leurs 169 cibles
composant l’Agenda 2030, adoptés en 2015 par les 193 États membres de l’ONU,
visent un monde plus équitable. L’objectif numéro 5 de cette...
Ai Weiwei’s Turandot
“Everything is art. Everything is politics.”
Ai Weiwei remains true to his maxim with his production of Giacomo Puccini and Franco Alfano’s 1926 “Chinese” tragic...
Focus on Afghanistan: “We tried to tell you”
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport.
FLAYOSC, France — Here we go again. Americans clamor for the...
The Hindu Kush Himalaya: An endangered “water tower” in a warming world
Mountain systems have long played a vital
role for ensuring replenishable water resources for both human survival and
natural ecosystems, for drinking, farming, hydroelectrical power, irrigation,
transportation and fishing, among other human activities. Inhabitants of...
2020 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature: Mia Couto
The Jan Michalski Foundation jury noted the “exceptional quality of the writing, which subtlely mixes orality and narrative, letters, tales, fables, dreams and beliefs, all in the heart of a historical reality,...
Poking Our Eyes Out
I always felt a wave of relief as wheels touched down at JFK after working in dicey places.
Foreign correspondents accept...
Letter from Switzerland: An expat’s concern over our Covid deaths
We have to talk about deaths in Switzerland, where over 8,000 people have died of COVID. In a country of eight million people, one person in every thousand has succumbed to...
Biden faces new epidemic of gun violence in America
According to estimates by the Swiss-based Small Arms Survey in 2017, Americans own some 393 million firearms, or roughly 40 percent of the privately owned guns on the planet, The US Congress’ Committee on Oversight...
Virtual/hybrid conferences: Has there been an event reset since COVID?
Agent Provocateur is Global Insights’ oped section
In my small world of moderating at events, however, nothing much has changed – unfortunately. I had hoped that some of the best...
‘Roger Federer, welcome home!’
Finally he did it. The dreaded moment of his retirement, much anticipated over the past decade.
It came just after midnight on 24 September...
“I’ll kill myself at 80,” said film innovator Peter Greenaway
He turned 80 on 5 April 2022.
Come March 2022, Greenaway released a trailer for his long-in-the-works biopic on Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi titled Walking to Paris (Variety),...
Russia’s Ukraine Intervention: Death by a Thousand Cuts?
William Dowell’s regular Tom’s Paine column.
Cartoon by Jeff Danziger. (Also see LINK to Danziger's latest book, The Vietnam War according to Lieuttenant Dangerous)
The...
FRANCE “Oouff” Outdid “Ah, Merde”
TUCSON — It will take some time to see where France goes next. But that old saw — plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose — is for sure out the...
Good journalism is not enough. The real issue is how to fund it.
The following article is one of a series examining the role of independent journalism as a crucial component for disseminating solutions-based information in the public interest, particularly youth. If you like...
Mort Report Booster Shot
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Global Insights Magazine/Global Geneva Group are supporting Mort's insightful and frank reporting from different parts...
