Dok Virak is a young Cambodian friend of Peter Heyes, a long-time member of IofC Canada and an honorary member of the Asia Pacific Regional Group (APRG.) Peter has been involved with IofC in Cambodia and other Asian countries for a number of years. He is happy to see IofC ideas take root in that once-troubled country. Peter sends us this story of how Virak uses techniques learned at IofC conferences in Asia and Caux.

"As a young filmmaker-facilitator, I have been empowered by Initiatives of Change to hone my skills and pursue my passion of fusing filmmaking and dialogue into an effective tool for peacebuilding."

Thanks to the financial support of IofC Canada and the Swiss Caux Fondation, Chris Hartnell was again able to work this summer alongside filmmaker Jean-Denis Borel, archivist Eliane Stallybrass and Ian Corcoran, a film editor from the UK, on the Caux International Archive Film Project.

The International Panel of Elders is a group of nine senior IofC members from various parts of the world. Together they represent the collective wisdom and experience of IofC as a worldwide movement of diverse people united in their desire to make positive changes in the world, beginning with change in themselves.

The first video gives an overview of the Citizens Project/Circles of Trust, in Quebec. The second video provides a peek into the Trustbulding workshops that take place in Alberta.

Alberta Regional Projects Coordinator Janyce Konkin has been as busy as a bee this summer. Here is a report of her presentation at the Jonglei Peace Initiative Conference in Washington D. C.

Iof C’s official commitment to the Citizen Project may have officially ended on March 31, but the ripples of trust building and reconciliation continue to expand in ever-widening circles.

In time- honoured IofC tradition, a personal relationship is the first step that leads to a long journey of international or intra-national peace building. This was no less true of the journey that took Richard Weeks to South Sudan in May this year. Here is his report.

Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations and founder of the Kofi Annan Foundation, closed 19 July the ‘Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy’ conference. His intervention, often humorous, was followed by a 45 minute session of animated Q&A.

Canadians among those welcoming the public to the IofC Conference Centre at Caux, Switzerland, during the Official Day