Farmers’ Dialogue is aiming at mobilising and helping farmers to fulfil their role in producing food, reducing poverty, protecting the environment and natural resources. Those responsible for the programme in Africa have expressed the need of a 'training of trainers', in order to learn about and how to use training and animation tools and be able to run training meetings in their local situation. This will make the programme more sustainable at the African level and give more opportunities to respond to requests coming from outside Farmers’ Dialogue. Training will take place 1-7 November in Nyahururu, Kenya.

From 6-9 September, a dialogue on the theme 'Healing the Past' took place on the shores of the Black Sea in Crimea. This part of present-day Ukraine includes many different cultures and ethnicities who have suffered historical injustices, including famine and forced ethnic re-locations during the Communist era.

The fact that the world can be changed only if it starts from within was a starting point for 15 participants who took part in a series of four workshops on the theme 'I am changing', that took place from 3-13 September in the 'Info-room' of the Office for Youth, Belgrade. Looking within, revealing the values ​and beliefs that guide them, young people aged 18 to 30 years searched for the changes and means to make a difference in their own lives.

To mark the International Day of Peace, the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the United Nations in Geneva, in coordination with the Spanish society for International Human Rights Law, Initiatives of Change and many other Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), supported by the NGO liaison unit of the UN office at Geneva, organized a High Level meeting on the Right to Peace.

In different parts of the world people are celebrating or marking Peace week with different events. One of the biggest on the global scale will be on Friday 21 September which is recognized as international peace day. Rainer Gude, Initiatives of Change International’s representative to the United Nations, encourages all of us to see how we can join in.

Amir Kamergi, a 2012 Caux Scholar, is interviewed by the national Radio in Netherland about the recent events in Tunisia.

6-9 вересня на кримському узбережжі Чорного моря відбувся черговий діалог "Загоєння минулого". На кримському півострові пліч-о-пліч мешкають представники різних культур, етносів, які постраждали від історичної несправедливості, у тому числі насильницькі депортації, голодомори за сталінських часів Радянського Союзу.

Under the headline 'What binds them together', Africa Today magazine publishes an article about the work of Yahaya Ahmed to sell energy saving cooking stoves across the Sahel region of northern Nigeria.

On June 18th 2012, Lanka Standard published speech about forgiveness given by Sonali Samarasinghe (1996 Caux Scholar) , on the occasion of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Caux Scholars Program at the Swiss Embassy.

‘Organized crime is now a globalised reality. The Mafia has very much benefitted from this globalisation,’ says Fr Tonio Dell’Olio, the Italian priest who founded the Libera Terra Association in 1995 in order to seize back land illegally help by the Mafia. The financial crisis has favoured the Mafia, he says. Globalisation means that the public’s stereotypical image of the Mafia no longer matches the Mafia that now operates around the world.