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16/12/2025

🌍 From Lausanne to the World

Born in Lausanne to a Swiss-Belgian family, Isabelle von Burg has built a global career in luxury hospitality, from Asia to the Middle East and back to Switzerland. Guided by values of generosity, authenticity, and human connection, she learned that true luxury is not about prestige, but about emotion, discretion, and attention to detail.

Today, she passes on this vision through Next-Gen Hospitality Leaders, a global community empowering the next generation with leadership, emotional intelligence, and resilience.

✨ “True hospitality leadership starts with respect and humanity.”

👉https://genevemonde.ch/documents/01kckthqyn28dzsfv25a3rma3d
et https://open.spotify.com/episode/637UqWiG8Hsj2YIdSpYnoJ

Hotel Management School Geneva | EHG

15/12/2025

🎙 Nahum Goldmann à l’honneur

Le 16 décembre 1981, Nahum Goldmann (1895-1982), intellectuel et diplomate juif d’origine européenne, était l’invité de Jean Dumur dans l’émission “Destins” sur la RTS.

Fondateur et président de longue date du Congrès juif mondial, Goldmann joua un rôle déterminant dans les négociations avec l’Allemagne pour les réparations après la Shoah.

Figure majeure du sionisme, il conservait une vision critique et nuancée de l’État d’Israël, et marqua le judaïsme du XXᵉ siècle par son influence politique, morale et intellectuelle.

Revivez cet entretien historique diffusé il y a 44 ans et découvrez la pensée d’un des grands diplomates du XXᵉ siècle.

https://genevemonde.ch/documents/01kcgqxvyjp6f3w4mw6z7hvcjy

10/12/2025

Saint-Marin, la plus ancienne république du monde

Son Excellence Marcello Beccari, ambassadeur de Saint-Marin en Suisse et représentant permanent auprès de l’ONU à Genève raconte l’histoire de cette micro-république, plus vieille démocratie du monde.

Fondée en 301 par Saint Marinus, Saint-Marin a su préserver son indépendance et sa neutralité à travers les siècles, de Napoléon à la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Pionnière des droits humains en Europe, elle a été le premier État européen à abolir la peine de mort, accueille des réfugiés et s’implique activement dans la diplomatie multilatérale.

Diplomate depuis 1994, Marcello Beccari a représenté Saint-Marin dans de nombreuses conférences internationales, modernisé le protocole d’État et assuré les relations bilatérales avec la Suisse et la Russie. Il partage avec nous une vision claire : liberté, démocratie et neutralité restent au cœur de l’identité de la République.

Pour découvrir l’intégralité de notre entretien, y compris l’histoire fascinante de Giuseppe Garibaldi, la diplomatie sammarinaise et la vie culturelle et sportive de cette petite république, rendez-vous sur geneveMonde.ch.

https://genevemonde.ch/documents/01kbjf2zbzmsk1ng5844z64frb

Photo : La neutralité de Saint-Marin pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1941), CC BY-SA 3.0.

Propos recueillis par David Glaser, merci à Anita Dedic.

08/12/2025

100 Years of Intellectual Cooperation

In 2022, Geneva marked the centenary of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC) and the League of Nations.

In 2025, the book “Intellectual Cooperation at the League of Nations” (Martin Grandjean & Daniel Laqua) explores a century of global intellectual exchange, from science to arts, driven by pioneers like Paul Otlet or Jean Piaget among many others.

🌐 From the International Bureau of Education to UNESCO and CERN, these initiatives show that dialogue, inclusion, and collaboration remain vital today in an era of extreme simplification and desinformation.

Martin Grandjean introduced his book (coedited with Daniel Laqua) last Friday at the Palais des Nations, listen to his interview :

https://genevemonde.ch/documents/01kbz46hnjcdznp32p0hgp9m0z

The event wasorganized by the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva.
Thanks to Hermine Diebolt and Frederikke Bak Jakobsen

📖 Read the book for free: 991002769361802391_E.pdf

📸 Photo from left to right : Daniel Laqua, Émeline Brylinski, Thomas Davies, Corinne A Pernet and Blandine Blukacz-Louisfert (Head of the Institutional Memory Section at the Library and Archives of the United Nations Office at Geneva)

04/12/2025

[EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW]

Is the UN at risk of disintegration?

Yes, says Ambassador (ret.) Charles C. Adams, Jr., an expert in international arbitration.

Article by Luisa Ballin freely accessible :

https://genevemonde.ch/documents/01kbd2n37f0rp48qm8hmhaz9wy

02/12/2025

🆕 Brand-new on geneveMonde.ch!

In this new episode of Historique Express, geneveMonde.ch welcomes Estelle Sohier, historian and Associate Professor at the University of Geneva. 🎓🌍

📅 June 30, 1936: Haile Selassie travels to Geneva to denounce Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia before the League of Nations 🏛️✊ and to defend his country’s independence 🇪🇹.

📘 In his Amharic speech, he warns of the League of Nations’ weakness when confronted with great-power aggression ⚖️💥- a message that still resonates today, in an era of ongoing violations of international law 🌐.

🎙️ Interview: David Glaser - https://genevemonde.ch/documents/01kbd3jwskv6zecwhgpdq0hnx2

🎛️ Sound: Cyril Delemer (RTS) 🎧

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🔎 geneveMonde has published a full dossier on Haile Selassie in Switzerland:
https://genevemonde.ch/galleries/haile-selassie-une-histoire-a-geneve
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28/11/2025

🔥Before Swiss Women Fought for Their Rights, Russians Did It for Them

At the turn of the 19th century, the was one of the very few in Switzerland bold enough to admit women.

And here’s the twist : many of these pioneers came straight from Tsarist Russia and Eastern Europe.

They weren’t just students.

They were catalysts, disruptors who sparked a feminist awakening Switzerland didn’t see coming.

How did these young women, arriving from turbulent societies, shape the fight for women’s rights in Switzerland?

What ideas, demands, and forms of resistance did they inject into Geneva’s intellectual landscape?

Art historian and former Grand Council deputy Erica Deuber Ziegler, author of a groundbreaking book on this overlooked history, breaks it all down in a sharp interview with Luisa Ballin for geneveMonde.ch.

👉 Article : https://genevemonde.ch/documents/01kb2a5zg9zpc4nckmgvzygd6m

A powerful reminder that Switzerland’s feminist history wasn’t only written within its borders, it was transformed by those who crossed them.

👉 Want more untold stories from Geneva and the world? Subscribe to www.geneveMonde.ch now. It's totally free.

Photo credits : Erica Deuber-Ziegler by Anne Deuber-Cuénod

26/11/2025

Ukrainians and Americans were in Geneva a few days ago — a reminder of how often the world turns its eyes toward this city.

This RTS archive montage shows just how central Geneva has been to global diplomacy since the end of World War II.

From major international summits to peace talks and historic face-to-face meetings, Cointrin Airport appears again and again as the gateway where history begins — before the negotiations even start in town.

At 3:44, President Dwight D. Eisenhower can be seen in 1955 thanking the mayor and people of Geneva after the Summit of the Four Powers.

The opening sequence comes from a 1959 report about a DC-7 taking off from Cointrin.

And in 1985, as Ronald Reagan arrived for the US–USSR Geneva Summit, Swiss President Kurt Furgler summed it up perfectly:
“All eyes are watching us.”

For decades, Geneva has been the stage where the world meets.

Photo: President Kurt Furgler, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, and Raisa Gorbacheva.

https://genevemonde.ch/documents/01k81804196a1em0hbnf487br8

Montage Zelda Chauvet, La Souris Verte.

20/11/2025

50 years after Franco’s death, geneveMonde looks at today by digging deep into history.A dictator died in 1975, but the system he built lived on — through the 1977 democratic elections and until the Socialist shift of 1982.

🔎 Explore our brand-new dossier on the ties between Geneva, Switzerland, and Spain:

👉 https://genevemonde.ch/dossiers/01kaecb5q1pr479tjxmsexnr2a

19/11/2025

🔍 À quoi servent vraiment les armes nucléaires ?

Deux bombes en 1945. Zéro depuis. Et pourtant, la menace est plus présente que jamais.

Depuis l’invasion de l’Ukraine en 2022, le spectre nucléaire s’invite de nouveau dans les discussions stratégiques et géopolitiques. Alors que le nombre d’ogives a fortement baissé depuis le pic des années 1980, leur rôle dans l’équilibre — ou le déséquilibre — mondial reste central.

🎙️ Véronique Stenger, historienne de geneveMonde.ch et chargée de cours à l’Université de Genève, apporte son éclairage essentiel sur la place du nucléaire dans l’arsenal militaire contemporain : dissuasion, pouvoir symbolique, enjeux diplomatiques… Que représentent vraiment ces armes dont l’usage militaire n’a eu lieu que deux fois dans l’histoire ?

https://www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2025/audio/a-quoi-servent-vraiment-les-armes-nucleaires-29062895.html

📝 Journaliste : Grégoire Molle

🎧 Réalisation : Jonah Dubois

💡 Une production RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse

Photo Wikipedia

18/11/2025

Spain 1936 – When Diplomacy Failed

The Spanish Civil War erupted on July 18, 1936, pitting the democratically elected government against Franco’s fascist rebels. While Germany and Italy supported the uprising, European democracies adopted a policy of “non-intervention.”

Spain’s Foreign Minister, Julio Alvarez del Vayo, warned the League of Nations about the threat of a wider conflict—but the League remained powerless. The war exposed the limits of international diplomacy in protecting democracy against rising authoritarianism.

Read Maxim Gavenc's piece on Alvarez del Vayo’s speech at the League of Nations and its aftermath for the Spanish Republican government here: https://genevemonde.ch/documents/01ka97gbv8vqb7msqs0vt27g59

Cover illustration: poster “Evacuad Madrid: confiad vuestra familia a la República” (Evacuate Madrid, entrust your family to the Republic), 1937, designed by Pedrero.

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