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...
Regain d’intérêt médiatique pour la Genève internationale
Edition Francaise This article is part of Global Geneva’s development of a French-language component at the request of readers. If you like what we are doing to help...
Pandemics, climate change and UN reform
These past few months of COVID-19 have proven both brutal and sobering. But the lessons are clear. The threat of a global pandemic has been with us...
Swiss Journeys: Ticino, a breath of the Mediterranean in Switzerland (Part 1)
The coronavirus pandemic and the fear of a new cross-border lockdown have convinced many living in Switzerland to head south to the Ticino, the country’s only Italian-speaking canton,...
Amanda Gorman: The vital power of youth and words
A Rock, a River, a Tree Hosts of species long departed Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn hereMaya Angelou, On The Pulse of Morning
It’s Christmas; Hug Families, Guzzle Eggnog – and Gird Your Loins
Déjà vu all over again. I caught a predawn cab to Roissy airport in Paris as I have so often in the past for an anxious flight to some tin-pot autarchy where border cops...
WTO: Is keeping up the good fight for trade enough?
An updated version of this article has been published in the Oct/Nov 2017 print and e-edition of Global Geneva magazine.
Millions of rich country voters blame open trade and economic globalization for the precarity of their jobs....
The Balkans Wars: Return to Slavonski Brod
Mladen Vladetić is standing in his old local park. It is called the “blue field” and it is surrounded by grim-looking tenements, their outer walls still scarred by shell impacts with great...
Guest Podcast by ALTAMAR: Will Europe’s year ahead be even rougher?
Merkel is weaker, fringe parties are gaining steam across the Schengen Area, uncertainty hangs over Italy's March elections, Macron's EU reforms seem increasingly unpalatable, and, not to be bested, a Brexiteering UK is gearing...
America’s – and NATO’s – Afghanistan disaster: Still a possible peace solution with a...
By Edward Girardet & Peter Jouvenal The following article was shortlisted but not finally selected by the Geneva-based Oslo Forum as part of its 2021 Peace Writer Prize. A...
Business as usual: no longer acceptable for young people
For my 20 year-old son, who is studying finance at Edinburgh University, engaging with business investment and social entrepreneurship is what matters. In other words, unlike his father, he is a born...
A DAUGHTER SEEKS THE TRUTH ABOUT HER FATHER, ESPIONAGE, AND OIL Review of ‘The...
In January 1947, Daniel Dennett seemed to have it made. Dennett, who had taught at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, during the early 1930s, was cultural attaché at the US Legation...
Village of the Forgetful – a film-maker’s journey
This article is part of Global Geneva's ongoing Focus series profiling film-makers and their projects. The subject fascinated me and I found myself thinking about it...
The United Nations should be supporting – not blocking – independent journalism.
This article was first published by Medium. Global Geneva makes its content available for free in the public interest. If you like our approach to independent journalism,...
International Switzerland’s gold mine of knowledge: an unexploited global asset
Despite the promise, Switzerland is doing relatively little about getting the rest of the world to understand what this incredible community of international aid workers, academics, entrepreneurs, researchers, policymakers and advocates has to...
Citizens and Scientists Battle Invasive Species
Florida is paying bounty hunters for the third year in a row to capture thousands of Burmese Pythons that have overrun the Everglades, a vast area of subtropical wetlands, lakes and rivers, stretching from...
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...
Chappatte plonge ‘Au cœur de la vague du coronavirus’
EDITION FRANCAISE: La deuxième vague de Covid-19 frappe de plein fouet des millions de citoyens sur tous les continents. À l’incrédulité ressentie depuis mars dernier a succédé l’angoisse. Pour tenter de comprendre...
IRAN-USA: The Sound and the Fury – An outrage too far?
The following is part of William Dowell's regular Tom's Paine column. Global Geneva makes its content available for free in the public interest. If you like our...
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.
Coronavirus: Community participation and credible information: the core of any serious response
The last time the world was gripped by fears of a pandemic in late 2014, my wife was not amused when I traveled to Sierra Leone – the epicenter of the Ebola...
Trump: Beyond a tinpot threat to democracy and the planet
OPINION Donald Trump must rank as the United States’ worst president ever since the institution first came into being with the election of George Washington as the new country’s...
Advice for dealing with Coronavirus
Johns Hopkins University Global Update Operations Dashboard for Coronavirus/COVID-19 (Click HERE) A note from Dr. James Robb, who knows: "Dear Colleagues, as some of you...
Othello in Switzerland: Keeping Shakespeare – and theatre – alive
As part of its support for the arts, Global Geneva asked director Paul Stebbings to explain how the TNT travelling theatre company have managed to re-establish its traditional touring in the...
The Capital of Civilization: Brexit, populism and the 150th anniversary of the Siege of...
It may be no surprise if the 150th anniversary of the Prussian army’s descent on Paris with the largest siege force ever assembled draws few headlines. The seeds of woe it planted -- a...
The Mort Report: A crime against humanity
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. TUCSON — Let’s be clear. Deadly plague and deadlier politics put...
Swiss Journeys: Le Tessin, un souffle de Méditerranée (2ème partie) À la rencontre de...
L'église de San Giovanni Battista à Mogno/The church of San Giovanni Battista in Mogno.(Photo: Enrico Cano) « Pour comprendre Mario Botta, il est primordial de visiter sa ville natale et...
A new journalism platform: Are we missing the point of International Geneva?
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Paul Ress: A word master is gone
Many PR bureaucrats in the United Nations
and even NGOs could not understand why or how Paul was so phenomenally
successful as an information officer. All they knew was that he seemed
uncontrollable. So they...
Book Review: One hundred women to inspire us to change
"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exceptions."Ruth Bader Ginsburg, lawyer and former Justice, United States Supreme Court Their...
Oceanus to Oceans: The Sea Affects All Things
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness…. When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
POLAR FOCUS: The view from Greenland – About contexts
Listening to Polar regions. A Special Series by Global Geneva in media partnership with JONAA.
The editors would like to apologise for having mistakenly identified Hans Peder kirkegaard (editor of Aqago) as a member of the Greenland Parliament in the...
‘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...
“Mindf*ck”: Adventures with the Cambridge terminator
The driving force behind both events, Wylie insists, was a previously little known contractor, Cambridge Analytica, created in 2014. Wylie has direct knowledge of what he is talking about. After finishing his studies at...
Britain’s new post-Brexit role in Africa?
So why Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa?
Nigeria: With an estimated 186 million people, Nigeria has vast unfulfilled potential caused by decades poor leadership. President Muhammadu Buhari, now 75, in a country where the median age...
Eliminating nuclear weapons before they eliminate us
Last month on 24 October 2020, the Treaty
on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW),
adopted in July 2017 by 122 states at the United Nations, reached 50
ratifications. This triggered the treaty's entry into...
WRITING A NOVEL – A NOVEL EXPERIENCE: The story that would not leave me...
When I sat
down to write a novel several years ago, there were a lot of things I didn’t
know. For
starters, I didn’t know how to write a novel.
I was strictly...
Space lessons for Covid-19 isolation – and more
NASA Flight Engineers Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir flank Expedition 62 Commander Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos for a playful portrait in the weightless environment of the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA)
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...
Navalny’s Gambit: Can the imprisoned opposition leader have a role in Russia?
Editor's Note: Alexei Navalny, who returned to Russia from Germany in late January 2021 was jailed for three and a half years by a Russian court for ostensibly violating the terms...
In South Sudan, the Hope and Pain of Nonviolence
Gunmen killed our children. We seek peaceful justice but cannot be sure it will happen. This article by Yeng Lambo, a USIP program coordinator, was first published...
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,...
Covid-19 et crise économique ne doivent pas éclipser l’urgence climatique
Comment affronter un présent angoissant et penser un futur innovant et positif, alors que l’attention des dirigeants politiques et des citoyens est avant tout centrée sur l’urgence sanitaire due au coronavirus et...
The long road to the women’s vote in Switzerland
In the Council of States, one of the two
chambers of the Swiss parliament in Bern, one wall is dominated by a fresco in
five panels. Die Landsgemeinde by Albert Welti was completed between
1907...
The Ethiopian-Tigray Conflict: View of a worsening situation from the other side of the...
Fleeing violence in Tigray, Ethiopia, more than 61,000 people have registered as refugees after crossing the border into Sudan since November 2020. Recently, I visited two refugee camps - Al Hashabat and...
A Swiss initiative to redo the Internet: crypto scepticism abounds
You may have caught a whiff of last month’s explosive climb into cryptocurrencies' top 10 valuations by a mammoth Swiss-based project to replace the Internet we know today. One crypto analyst described...
Agenda 2021: a youth cure for the UN
Any new hire entering the United Nations these days must be struck by the fact that not only is the institution showing its age, but its top management is too. The UN...
Why Climate Change matters to your security, health & wealth
Written by Paul Mayewski, Charles Norchi and Alexander More Far too many governments, businesses, political factions or local interest groups ranging from the United States to Tanzania are...
POLAR FOCUS: Iceland Exceptionalism – Renewable energies, effective pandemic measures and careful tourism.
Steam from one of Iceland's innumerable geysers. Abundant renewable geothermal resources help cover 85 per cent of the country's energy needs. (Photo: Tira Shubart) Iceland sits bang on...
Dans un monde en évolution, les défis de l’école publique à Genève, ville multiculturelle
Edition Française This article is part of Global Geneva’s development of a French-language component at the request of readers. If you like what we are doing to...
