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What is their goal? How do they envisage the future of global governance?
Meet those who shape International Geneva and commit to a better world.
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Competing with Brussels to host the headquarters of the League of Nations after the First World War, Geneva played one of its strongest cards: the romantic beauty of its lakeside setting, facing Mont Blanc. Only the best would do for the Council of the League of Nations. The people of Geneva complied, though not without a tinge of regret. This first article describes the reasons and circumstances leading to the establishment of the international quarter in the district it occupies today.
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The six petals of azure glass, strung like a garland along the train tracks in Sécheron, are a manifesto for peace: the fluid, sinuous structures reflected in each other symbolise both the fragility and complexity of peace, and its supremacy over the banality of violence. Its owner, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), is in fact a product of the peace of the 1920s and 1930s, a peace as brief as it was fruitful.
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This fourth article about the architecture of international organizations in Geneva examines the role of design competitions in the development of new architectural forms and building techniques. As of the 1960s, modernism had outgrown its early-twentieth-century timidity to become fully established. Le Corbusier’s protest over the rejection of his design for the Palace of Nations was instrumental in bringing about this change.
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In a brochure presenting the new headquarters of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Alberto Camenzind, one of its three architects, explained that the urban landscape of his native Ticino is defined by its church steeples. Perched on a hill in the Morillons neighbourhood, the ILO would one day stand as “one of Geneva’s defining structures”, he added.(1) He was right.
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It may seem strange to devote a chapter of a book about the architectural history of Geneva's international quarter to the buildings of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) — given the absence of architecture they represent. However, this absence itself is symptomatic of the ICRC’s moral dimension. One would expect that the world’s largest humanitarian organization could exist only in modest, even temporary quarters, since its mission is rooted in the ideal of a world without war.
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This sixth article in the series on the architectural history of international organizations in Geneva considers the urban planning dilemma caused by the building of the Palace of Nations on the Ariana estate. A dilemma that was tackled, but never resolved, by several international architectural competitions occurring over the course of 50 years. A minimalist solution emerged only in 2000, after a final contest.
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The Geneva Internet Platform (GIP) was inaugurated 8 April, with an engaging and dynamic discussion on global digital politics. The inauguration event also included an Internet Governance (IG) Bazaar, featuring, among other things, the first Bitcoin ATM. The GIP is an initiative of the Swiss authorities operated by DiploFoundation. Jovan Kurbalija, Director of the DiploFoundation tells us more about it.
May 2014
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Could you tell us briefly what your organization does? What is your role?
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Every week, discover a theme of International Geneva’s current events linked to an image of a renowned photographer.
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Meteorology is forward-looking by nature. Its time horizon is the next hour, the next day, a week, a month, or even several years from now – in a word, the future. The tyranny of the future gives meteorologists a knack for sensing which direction the wind is blowing.
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Spend a week with Scott Weber, the Director-General of Interpeace, and discover their work, impact, priorities and the challenges they are facing to build peace around the globe.
23 September 2014