Sons d'Histoire devotes its latest issue to the speeches of peace, from the first conferences of the League of Nations in 1920 in Geneva.

The sounds of international organizations come from the digitized holdings of the United Nations, the League of Nations (the forerunner of the UN), the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS). For 100 years, RTS has been capturing the great speeches made in Geneva's arena of multilateralism.

In this podcast, you'll discover excerpts from speeches and interviews with Aristide Briand, Joseph Goebbels, Haile Selassie, Pope Paul VI and Nelson Mandela.

This podcast is brought to you by David Glaser and Véronique Stenger.

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The EBU, international broadcast union, based in Geneva, is best known for organizing the Eurovision Song Contest.

Research and narration: Véronique Stenger and David Glaser

Production: David Glaser and Cyril Delemer

Translation: Justin Araya

Heartfelt thanks to the RTS Archives, the EBU, the UN Library and Archives and BBC archives.

To find out more about the history of the EBU, click on this link to our special report.

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The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols contain the essential rules of international humanitarian law, which set limits to the barbarity of war. The first Geneva Convention was adopted in 1864 and since then international humanitarian law has continued to adapt to the reality of international conflicts.

With the help of readings from Henry Dunant's book "A memory of Solférino" and archives, most of which come from geneveMonde.ch partner institutions, historian Véronique Stenger and journalist David Glaser explain the history and evolution of these Conventions and their usefulness in the context of armed conflicts.

Research and presentation : Véronique Stenger and David Glaser

Readings : Laurent Burkhalter

Production: David Glaser and Christophe Legrain

Translations : Justin Araya

Special thanks to the Geneva Public Library, the Swiss Diplomatic Archives (DODIS), the RTS archives, Memoriav and the ICRC archives.

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The creation of CERN, the role played by physicists - many of whom were involved in research on the atomic bomb during the Second World War - and the very strong links between the CERN project and international Geneva are eminently important.

This episode focuses on other characteristic aspects of CERN's history: the criticisms, fears and social contestation that have existed over the decades.

This podcast is hosted by journalist David Glaser and historian Véronique Stenger (University of Geneva) and is edited by FONSART.

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