The history of international Geneva with you
This October 27, 2022, on the occasion of UNESCO's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, geneveMonde.ch is up and running! Our participative platform is a unique editorial project: it tells the story of international Geneva with the help of your personal archives, your testimonies and documents from international organizations present in Geneva and archives from Radio Télévision Suisse.
To hear Gandhi's peace speech delivered in Geneva in 1931; to listen to the testimony of a woman from Fribourg who was the last assistant to the UN Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden, who died tragically in 1961; or to read the account of a witness to the visit of Paul VI to the International Labour Organization in 1969; to discover the backstage of the creation of CERN. Our editorial team, composed of two journalists and one historian, offers a renewed history of international Geneva and accompanies you in the publication of your archives. For the opening of our platform, we are publishing a new dossier: "The discourses of peace in Geneva". Join the geneveMonde.ch community and discover our productions!
Over the months geneveMonde.ch will be enriched with new publications. Together, let us open a new chapter in the history of international Geneva, at the crossroads of history, memory and testimony.
Discover and enrich the history of International Geneva
Neutrality, a condition and an opportunity
In May 2023, Switzerland presided over the UN Security Council. Let's look back at the challenges that collective security poses to Swiss neutrality.