Join us for the 2016 Winter Gathering: take the time to reflect about ‘Change’, this year’s theme, and to experience community life with people from around the world! The Winter Gathering takes place from 26 December 2016 at 18:00 to 1 January 2017.

The 2016 Winter Gathering in Caux's theme is 'Take the time to reflect about "Change"', where you can experience community life with people from around the world! The Winter Gathering takes place from 26 December 2016 to 1 January 2017.

Change in Progress is a young people's movement encouraging development by embracing faith and hope in own ability to change circumstances faced daily, through camps, workshops, trainings, mentoring, coaching, meetings and campaigns.The camping programme is divided into two parts, theory at the camp site for five days and practical’s in the community and NGO’s of Soweto for three days then end with a graduations ceremony, whom the key note address will be from Dr Lillian Cingo, founder of the Philophepha train. The camp event is then followed by three months of individual and group mentoring.

The Caux Scholars Program-Asia Plateau (CSP-AP) is a three-week programme held in Panchgani, India. It invites youth leaders, community organizers, and scholars from different countries and cultural backgrounds to learn and experience the integration of sustainable development and peacebuilding. The application deadline is August 26, 2016.

Maria del Corral was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1957. Presently Maria is part of a team of IofC in Bogota, presenting workshops on a variety of topics monthly, plus participating in other initiatives related to re-building the structure of Colombia’s society devastated by over 50 years of internal guerrilla war.ted by over 50 years of internal guerrilla war.

Barry Hart is Professor of Trauma, Identity and Conflict Studies in the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. He was the he Academic Director of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding from 2009-2012 and held the same position in the Caux Scholars Program, Caux, Switzerland from 1997-2010. Dr. Hart has conducted workshops on psychosocial trauma recovery and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Burundi and among Rwandan refugees in Tanzania. Hart has lived and worked in the Balkans where he developed and led trauma and conflict transformation programs for schools, communities and religious leaders. He was engaged in a three-year peacebuilding institute and curriculum development project between EMU and the University of Hargeisa in Somaliland (2008-2011). He has also co-led inter-racial workshops in Richmond, Virginia for Hope in the Cities. He holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR), George Mason University. Publications include the book ‘Peacebuilding in Traumatized Societies’, and numerous book chapters and journal articles on conflict transformation and restorative justice and the power of dignity in the negotiation process.

Comedy For Change at Caux. 20 July, 2016, 19:30–21:30

Humanity faces three enormous, inter-related challenges in the 21st century: mitigating the impact of climate change, feeding the world’s population and preserving the integrity of the planet’s ecosystems.

Help define the values of TIGE-Switzerland and learn how to integrate them in your team!

The International Peace-Builders' Forum (IPF) 2016 will take place on 19 - 23 July 2016: Peacebuilding among people displaced by violence and war.