Greycells aims at building two main bridges: between seniors and youth, and between local and international communities. Greycells’ 10th anniversary in 2018 inaugurated a series of Intergenerational Dialogues (IGs) on international agenda topics. The results of an online multilingual world-wide and Geneva-based survey provided with inputs to the debates. Numerous partners representing various official and civil society stakeholders participated in all stages of these events. All seven past IGs can be accessed at https://greycells.ch/intergenerational-dialogues/ The following three Dialogues stand out because of the relevance of their topics and the quality of the debates.
Held on 25 April 2024 at the Swiss Press Club, this Dialogue was a premonition: it identified the crisis of multilateralism and its repercussions on the role of International Geneva « ecosystem », affecting human rights, economic, social, environmental domains beyond security and political affairs. The Dialogue conveyed to the medias a Communiqué, a Concept Note, and the results of the related Survey and Youth Contest held in cooperation with the Geneva Diplomatic Club. For the recording and background materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EmmTMDtbaM
This Dialogue was held at Palais Eynard on December 6, 2022, just after the arrival of Ukraine refugees at Geneva. It covered the evolution of Geneva as ‘ville refuge’ since the Fifties, and local and international Geneva posture visa vis migrants and refugees through history. For a synthesis of the debate, the results of the preliminary survey, video testimonies of migrants and refugees from various countries and a history of migrations please see https://greycells.ch/intergenerational-dialogue-2022. The event was held in French. Related documents are also in French.
Ce Dialogue s’est tenu au Palais Eynard en coopération de la Ville de Genève, le 6 décembre 2022, peu après l’arrivée de réfugiés ukrainiens. Il a abordé l’évolution de la « Genève ville refuge » depuis les années 50, et les attitudes de la Genève internationale et locale de tous âges. Le document de synthèse du débat, les résultats du sondage préliminaire, les vidéo-témoignages de migrants et réfugiés de plusieurs pays, et l’histoire humoristiques des migrations sont accessibles ici : https://greycells.ch/intergenerational-dialogue-2022/
In 1920, with the establishment of the League of Nations in Geneva a new profession was created: international civil servants implement the mandates of member States and defending the values and goals of international organisations’ foundational treaties. Held on 21 November 2019, this Dialogue was inspired by the book ‘Eric Drummond and His Legacies. The League of Nations and the Beginnings of Global Governance’, by David MacFadyen, Michael D. V. Davies, Marylin Norah Carr, and John Burley, University of Southampton, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Neutrality and independence but not silence, political appointees, difficult leadership, and endemic financial crises were discussed in a candid way. For the recording, testimonials, and a historical diorama:
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