Have you been a Caux intern or else stayed in Caux, with a good knowledge of the place and a belief in and personal experience of the ideas of IofC? Would you be interested in training to be a new manager for one of its departments?

The 2012 Caux Forum needs a skilled, enthusiastic and dedicated Forum support group.

In recognition of the Caux Scholars Program’s twentieth anniversary, we take great pleasure in launching this new video about CSP filmed last summer in Caux by Giang Hoang , from Vietnam and the U.S and Charlotte Sawyer from the UK. The film is in honor of our remarkable CSP graduates, who are making a difference in so many ways all over the world.

Inspired to change the fortunes of African youth in the Eastern Africa region, Initiatives of Change (IofC) Uganda together with the EAYC planning team will host the second Eastern Africa Youth Conference to be held in Kampala, Uganda. The forum opens on Wednesday 8 February  and runs through to 12 February 2012.

On 26 January 2012 Parramatta Council, Australia announced Rosemary Kariuki-Ffye as it's Citizen of the Year. Rosemary is originally from Kenya and is actively involved with the Creators of Peace programme.

At the end of January Mohamed Sahnoun spoke at the University of Geneva about his decades of peace-making work in Africa.

The annual Regional Meeting of INGO Foundations for Freedom annual Regional Meeting will take place 23-25 March, 2012. The Romanian Club for Young Leaders has expressed its readiness to act as hosts in Baia Mare, Romania.

In October and November 2011, Initiatives of Change Brazil (IofC) and ‘Gente Que Avanza’ (GQA) worked together in several Brazilian cities exchanging personal and cultural experiences through their participants.

The dialogue on Making Democracy Real ended on 12 Jan with 32 people speaking in less than two minutes each, sharing their conclusions from the conference and the actions they have decided to take. Among them were some of the Tahrir Square revolutionaries, representatives of the Arab Spring.

Days after his acquittal on legal charges, Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, spoke out about the importance of conscience in politics. He asserted that ‘what is politically right cannot be morally wrong, and what is morally right cannot be politically wrong’, and that one cannot struggle without a moral foundation.