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Mission 21 hosted the second virtual International Forum for Interreligious and Transcultural Peacebuilding on September 19 and 20, 2024. Experts from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe discussed whether and how reconciliation is possible in polarized conflict situations. Over 200 experts and interested parties from all over the world...
Indian researcher Parinitha Shetty has looked into the history of the Basel Mission in South India - and says that the mission's presence has shaped Indian society to this day. Parinitha Shetty, I have brought you this photograph from the Mission 21 research archive. Do you know the photograph? Yes,...
Peace and reconciliation for South Sudan. The Federation of South Sudanese Churches is working towards this major goal. The ecumenical umbrella organization is supported by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and Mission 21. In October, a delegation from the Federation of Churches was in Basel for talks. The church member media in German-speaking Switzerland are now reporting on this.
Great honor for former Mission 21 employee, Pastor Hans Lutz. He received an honorary doctorate at the Dies Academicus 2023 of the University of Basel. Hans Lutz has worked for the Basel Mission for over 50 years and then for Mission 21 in Hong Kong. As part of this work, he will now...
The psychologist and influential Indonesian networker for human rights and democracy, Alissa Wahid, was the opening speaker at Mission 21's first international online forum for peacebuilding. What role do faith and religion play in dealing with trauma? Numerous experts and interested parties wanted to know more about this - from over 45 countries they tuned in! In...
In the exhibition "DEAL WITH IT - African Heritage in Basel," five Basel institutions - including Mission 21 - are taking a closer look at their African research in a joint project. They are also bundling and simplifying access to their holdings for international researchers with the innovative "PARC" project. In Basel, especially...
She is considered one of Indonesia's ten most influential women: psychologist Alissa Wahid, co-founder of a network promoting human rights, interfaith understanding and democracy. Alissa Wahid is also co-leader of the largest Muslim association in the world. On Thursday, August 17, she will deliver the keynote address at the International Forum for Interfaith and...
In the webinar of the series "Mission-Colonialism Revisited", two historians from Basel and Delhi reported on childhood and childhood in the environment of the Basel Mission in the 19th century. They shed light on the educational principles of the mission and their impact in different cultural contexts. In the current webinar of the series "Mission-Colonialism Revisited", Dr. Dagmar Konrad gave...
Numerous interested people were guests at the Mission 21 research archive on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Dr. Patrick Moser, archivist at Mission 21, showed original documents from the Mission Trading Society's holdings. These range from the beginnings in India and on the Gold Coast through the phase of separation of mission and trading society to...
In the 19th century, small Switzerland became a major international power in trade. What factors favored this and what role the Basel Mission and the Mission Trading Society, founded in 1859, played in this process was the topic of the current Mission 21 webinar in the series "Mission-Colonialism Revisited". The historian Dr. Lea Haller...
