From 18-20 September, an ICIP delegation travelled to Mexico to participate in the second meeting of the Platform for Peacebuilding in Mexico, of which the institution has been a member since its inception. This platform began to take shape in 2019 after the First International Forum on Peacebuilding in Mexico, held in Barcelona and organized […]
A few weeks ago, Azerbaijan won a war in just 24 hours: it forced the armed forces of the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to surrender and the civilian authorities to proclaim the dissolution of the administration that governed them. A country that had unilaterally declared its independence and had acted as such for decades was […]
Conflict in the Middle East During the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, on Saturday, October 7, 2023, an offensive by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas struck Israel by surprise. Thousands of rockets fired from Gaza overcame the Strip’s security barriers, and Islamist militants infiltrated Israeli territory by land, sea and air. The attack left hundreds […]
The presentation of the book ‘Exilios y lejanías. Relatos de mujeres colombianas’ will take place on Monday, October 23, at 6 p.m. at the Born Center for Culture and Memory. The book has been written and illustrated by thirteen Colombian women who live far from Colombia. Specifically, they are women who live in Germany, Canada, […]
As part of the annual conference of the Center Delàs d’Estudis per la Pau dedicated to feminist security, the ICIP and the organisation will organise a meeting with the professor of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway (University of London), Laura Sjoberg. The meeting will be on Tuesday, October 24, 2023, from 5 to […]
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian activist, journalist and writer Narges Mohammadi for her struggle against the oppression of women in Iran and in favor of human rights and freedom. The award is also a recognition of the work of the peaceful “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement sparked by […]
On Thursday, 21 September, coinciding with the commemoration of the International Day of Peace, ICIP presented the ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2023 to the associations “Women Victims of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina” and “Forgotten Children of War” in a ceremony held at the Palace of the Parliament of Catalonia. The award-winning associations […]
On August 1st 2023, the report Wagner Group Unchained in Ukraine: Military, Political, and human rights impact of the Wagner Group since the large-scale invasion in 2022. The Novact Institute for Nonviolence has made the report in collaboration with Shock Monitor, the Observatory of Business and Human Rights in the Mediterranean, and the organization Suds. […]
The ICIP, the Catalan Youth Agency and the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation are preparing for next October an international meeting of people and groups involved in projects for the culture of peace and transformative education through the different artistic expressions of hip hop. The initiative has the support of Versembrant, Heal Hop and Erol […]
How are people’s identities configured in the diaspora? How are they linked to the actions and commitments of diasporic communities with the construction of peace and democracy? What role do individual and collective memories play in constructing identities and obligations? These questions were discussed at the Diasporic Heritage and Identity Conference, which took place at […]
