Abdul Haq: the Afghan commander who could have led to peace
FOCUS on Afghanistan: 40 years of war. This is part of a special Global Geneva series on Afghanistan to be published in the November, 2018 - January 2019 print and e-edition.
I had called Abdul Haq from Washington D.C....
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...
FILMAR en América Latina : Le cinéma permet un regard critique sur le monde
EDITION FRANCAISE Comment est née l’idée de votre documentaire ? Para no olvidar (Pour ne pas oublier) a nécessité cinq ans de recherches. L’idée...
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,...
Comment contrôler les robots tueurs ?
Jean-MarcRickli, Directeur des risques globaux et de la résilience au Centre de Politique de Sécurité (GCSP) sis dans la Cité de Calvin posait une question essentielle : Ces armes sont-elles pourvues d’une capacité d’apprentissage...
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...
Crowdfunding the books you want, and disrupting big business
Gib Bulloch, who grew up on the Scottish Isle of Bute, distinguished himself by leading a corporate "guerrilla movement" inside one of the largest global consulting organizations. Now 51, Gib (born Gilbert, but he...
Sh’ma Yisrael – A Mort Report Extra
The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his regular comment The MortReport. Photo courtesy of Letizia Agosta, Unsplash. Jews have...
Swiss crypto: what comes next and why you should care about it
You may have no interest in cryptocurrencies or consider them a Ponzi rip-off like Nouriel Roubini or Nobel Economics Prizewinner Paul Krugman, i.e. you don't want to be the last crypto holder...
Dominique Ziegler rejoint Miss Marple à l’hôtel Beltram
Toutes illustrations Dominique Ziegler. Après avoir brillamment écrit et mis en scène des pièces de théâtre évoquant des instants de vie de personnages historiques comme Jaurès, Lénine, Rousseau, Calvin,...
Advice to mediators from the other side of the barrier
Reporters are present at virtually every international mediation. Yet they are rarely asked what mediators could do better in providing information for the public. The Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) decided to consult...
David Burnett: A Photographer’s Odyssey
The following article is scheduled to appear in the November 2018 - January 2019 Autumn print and e-edition of Global Geneva.
The earliest cameras were bulky and awkward to handle. They demanded dedication and expertise...
Uganda: Amid charges of election fraud, Museveni is back in
This is a shared follow-up on article on Uganda by Global Insights Magazine/Global Geneva and our media partner, Who, What, Why. (See William Dowell's earlier piece as part of his regular...
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)
Le casse-tête de la réexportation d’armes vers l’Ukraine
Dans un communiqué du 18 mai 2023, l’ONU a indiqué que le Conseil de sécurité a discuté des livraisons d’armes occidentales à l’Ukraine et des avertissements réitérés du Directeur du Bureau des...
2021 Rory Peck Awards: Recognizing the best of freelance reporting and filmmaking
The standard of freelance acquired news has become so penetrative and informative that the big broadcasting brands would surely collapse without stars like Solan Kolli who won the news award, Brent E....
GDR Days: Be Rude – and They Will Leave You Alone
The 'Spy Who Came in from the Cold'. John LeCarre's 1963 Cold War novel about espionage in East Germany which director Martin Ritt adapted to cinema in 1965 with Richard Burton...
The Real Cost of Ukraine
Besides refusing to extend funding for the US government, fringe elements in Congress have also begun targeting US aid to Ukraine. Their basic questions: What has Ukraine got to do with the...
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...
Honouring Human Rights Defenders: Why bother?
As a young foreign correspondent during the late 1970s and a Fellow of the Paris-based Journalists in Europe programme inviting 25 journalists every year to report key issues - I travelled to...
Guy Mettan: deux livres et un enchantement – Valais, cœur, corps et âme
Pour Guy Mettan, ancien rédacteur en chef de la Tribune de Genève, qui a également cofondé et dirigé le Club suisse de la presse et présidé le Grand Conseil (parlement du canton...
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...
FOCUS on Wildlife & Pandemics: Covid and Conservation in Africa – more than a...
Pangolin - a possible source of the current COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: UN) This is the first in a regular Global Insights Magazine FOCUS series on Wildlife and Pandemics as...
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...
Post-pandemic: welcome to the multi-speed world of regional disparities
The coronavirus swept across the world from Asia to Europe to the US along the same supply chains that deliver our electronics and clothing. But even as it serves as a reminder...
MortReport: That Damning O-Word
Most “ism” epithets are hurtful if not downright dangerous. Ageism is just idiocy. All bodies age, but dementia is not inevitable. And statecraft is not rugby. Jimmy Carter, the most sensible president...
Why ‘media’ is not journalism
Among the scariest aspects of the creeping coup d’etat in America is that so many among the fringe of voters who elected Donald Trump, who spout their worldviews with ironbound conviction, could not find...
Biden: A need to separate humanitarian aid from geopolitical aspirations
Donald J. Trump spent three years doing everything in his power as President to slash billions from foreign aid. He finally argued that the money spent on Congress’s pandemic relief bill was...
Ignoring World Opinion, Israel Steps into a Hornet’s Nest in Gaza
The shift in public perception, however, has left even US pledges of unconditional support dangerously fractured. The implications reach further than Israel’s problems with Hamas. Jewish communities around the world are already...
« La lumière est l’âme de l’architecture »
EDITION FRANCAISE: (PHOTOS - Carlo Schmidt) -- Mario Botta, qu’est-ce que la lumière pour vous ? La lumière est une réalité qui change entre le jour et la nuit....
Russia’s politically-appointed UN chief in Geneva: Silent on Putin’s war
Editorial See update below As pointed out by veteran journalist Bill Dowell in his recent Global Insights article, Valovaya, a Russian political appointee, has been...
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...
MortReport Extra: Hearts of Stone
Ground truth is buried under pent-up hatreds, hidebound bias, distorted history, prostituted faux-news and manipulation. Solid reporting competes with so much well-meant but misleading speed-of-light coverage that peace seems an impossible dream.
Afghanistan: the abandonment of a nation
In autumn 2001, having returned from Afghanistan just prior to the 9 September assassination by Al Qaeda of northern Afghan resistance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud and before its World Trade Center attacks,...
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. ...
Contesting statelessness in the Dominican Republic
Agent Provocateur is Global Insights’ oped section Large scale migration has historically occurred between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, which together share the Caribbean Island of Hispaniola. Fuelled by political...
Le Yémen est l’un des pays les plus invivables pour les enfants et les...
Edition Française: Alix Reboul-Salze, attachée au bureau de l’Unicef au Yémen, explique à Global Geneva que la crise humanitaire yéménite résulte d’une convergence tragique de plusieurs menaces pour le pays depuis l’intensification...
Coronavirus Stories: Could a fast, inexpensive test be the answer to the worldwide pandemic?
Until an effective coronavirus vaccine is developed, the only way of bringing the global COVID-19 pandemic under control is to identify infectious individuals and limit their movements before they can spread the...
The Last Animals – A documentary on the deadly consequences of the global rhino...
The film follows the conservationists, scientists and activists battling poachers and crime syndicates to protect elephants and rhinos from extinction. From Africa's front lines to behind the scenes of Asian markets, the film takes...
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.
Alain Gachet – A water wizard for the planet
This article is published in our November 2018-January 2018 edition as part of our Global Genevans section. Global Genevans are unusual individuals who embody the spirit and themes of the world-wide International Geneva community.
In...
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...
New gales eyeing international Geneva
US President Donald Trump has rattled more cages in a fortnight than past presidents in 50 years. It will take some time for the impacts or even the meanings of his executive orders and...
Building Bridges for Geneva and the world: Breaking the silos
On the face of it,
what International Switzerland has to offer is exceptional in the way of
knowledge, expertise and diplomacy, particularly with regard to the UN’s
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But unless more appropriate...
MortReport: Paris – An Immoveable Beast
Walking and bike path along former railway line in Paris. (Photo: Ville de Paris) The following column by contributing editor, journalist and author Mort Rosenblum is from his...
Without Borders – A Tragic and Cyclical Odyssey Across the Muslim World
BOOK REVIEW An American blunder went far towards making the Haqqanis what they are today, internationally infamous as remorseless terrorists and suicide bombers.
The power of creativity: a path to healing for survivors of sexual violence, war...
Agent Provocateur is Global Insight Magazine's op-ed section. At first, she was frozen in silence, unable even to make eye contact. Eventually, she wove her unspoken, unspeakable memories...
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...
Philip and Sadruddin: Two extraordinary visionaries
PERSONAL VIEW BUCKINGHAM PALACE, 27th January, 2017 Dear Ms.Willday, The Duke of Edinburgh has asked me to write and thank you for...
