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On 14 June 2026, Swiss voters will decide on an issue which may have major implications for Switzerland’s immigration policy. If the "No to ten million Switzerland", initiative is approved, it will have far-ranging consequences for Switzerland’s relationship with the EU and the rest of the world.
Panelists of this upcoming discussion on 📅 3rd June will explore key questions including:
-How did this initiative come about and how does work?
-What could be the implications of the vote?
-How do narratives and emotions affect democratic deliberations in and beyond?
-To what extent is governance a stress test for globally?
-How do the relationships between democracy and migration play out at the multilateral level?

Contributions by students of the class “Democracies in context” will help situate current shifts in democratic practices within the broader international landscape.

Join us in person at the Maison de la Paix:
https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/exploring-swiss-democracy-no-ten-million-switzerland-vote-and-beyond

Four students accompanied Professor Dêlidji Eric Degila as members of the Geneva Graduate Institute delegation to the 9th Pan-African Congress in Lomé, Togo, on 8–12 December 2025. They share their experience at this historic event dedicated to the “Renewal of Pan-Africanism and Africa’s Role in the Reform of Multilateral Institutions: Mobilising Resources and Reinventing Itself to Act”.
Interview with Hafssa Kouskous, PhD researcher in International History and Politics, and recent graduates Cindy Batchy-Tom, James Mumo Nyumu and Claudel Simo.

https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/news/youth-renewal-pan-africanism

The new issue of the Geneva Graduate Institute Review, Globe is out with articles on the
-future of education,
-international law and cooperation, and
a special dossier: “The End of ”.

Read it on
graduateinstitute.ch/globe


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THE END OF DEVELOPMENT?
In 1970, the UN General Assembly set the target for donor countries to allocate 0.7% of their gross national income to official development assistance. With the unprecedented decline in international development financing in 2025, this target is — once more — being called into question.
Are we witnessing the end of development as we have known it, or an opportunity to fundamentally rethink it?

Read the special dossier in the Institute's bilingual r***e, Globe:
http://graduateinstitute.ch/sites/internet/files/2026-05/Globe37_WEB.pdf =9

Climbers on our campus facade, students on deadlines - everyone hanging on in their own way.
So close to the summer break!

"Fertilisers are not just an agricultural input: they are a strategic resource hidden at the centre of geopolitical conflict."
Lorenzo Feltrin, Postdoctoral research fellow reminds us of the forgotten history of this agricultural commodity in his article in The Conversation.

Fertiliser: the forgotten history linking the agricultural commodity and empire in wartime A labour and political ecology expert looks back at imperialistic logic and how chemical fertilisers have repeatedly served as strategic objectives and weapons, particularly in wartime.