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Members of the Peace and Non-Violence Club of Daloa University trained

A seminar on "Students committed to the promotion of the Culture of Peace, Democracy, Human Rights and Reconciliation" was held on April 13 and April 14, 2017 in Yamoussoukro, To the Fondation Félix Houphouët-Boigny for Peace Research. It brought together thirty-seven students, all members of the club of peace and nonviolence of the University Jean...Continue reading

The Foundation pays tribute to Mrs Aïchatou Mindaoudou (UNOCI)

On May 28, 2017, the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for the Search for Peace paid tribute to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Côte d’Ivoire, His Excellency Aïchatou Mindaoudou, during a ceremony held at her Headquarters in Yamoussoukro. The United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI), whose mandate will expire on...Continue reading

General Assembly of the Ivorian Section of the Association of African Historians

On 5 and 6 May 2017, the Ivoirian section of the Association of African Historians (AHA) held its General Assembly at the headquarters of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for Peace Research in Yamoussoukro. This meeting brought together some fifty Ivorian historians. The AHA is a pan-African association founded in 1972 in Dakar, Senegal, whose aim...Continue reading

Students from the Methodist University of Côte d’Ivoire trained

The Félix Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for the Research of Peace organized a seminar on the theme: "Students are committed to the promotion of the Culture of Peace, Democracy, Human Rights and Reconciliation" on April 14, 2017 in Yamoussoukro. This seminar brought together sixty-three participants from the Students' Association of the Methodist University of Côte d'Ivoire (UMCI). UMCI students...Continue reading

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"Peace is not a word, it is behavior."

"Peace, which constantly needs exhortations, is a continuous acquisition, usually silent."

"The hungry man is not a free man."

"The sanctity of work also ennobles the one who carries the burdens or drives heavy machines, like the one who, in the silence of laboratories or offices, gives his task the best of his thought and care."

"It is easier to make war than to make peace."

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"Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be raised."

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