News 2006
by Philipp Rodriguez
This week I was invited to have presentation on SCI at University of Novi Sad. Besides pictures of rich SCI history I presented three thesis on SCI as a kind of conclusion. I had several discussion before and after the presentation and I think it is worth to present them here. Please feel free to comment them.
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Today I came along to files from SCI contacts in Sudan in the early 90s. While I was ordering the documents by date, a paper titled with SCI Africa Constitution got my attention. Usually there are documents about volunteer exchange and projects in files from African countries. But this file is about the beginning of an SCI group. Actually it was not a successful attempt.
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by Philipp Rodriguez
I remember, that I was several times asked if French is or was an official language of our movement. Maybe this due the fact, that 20 years ago the minutes of international meetings usualy were translated to French.
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These days Peter and are working in the Archives. On the 'to do'' list there are many small files here and there. Among them is a tiny publication, 3 x 5 cm, from 1951 with "Pierre Ceresole speaks"[2] as its title. Marius from the Netherlands brought it to me some weeks ago. On a few pages it lists quotes from the founder of SCI. I think it is worth to citing and commenting here these quotes on voluntary service for peace, all of which refer to SCI of course.
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