As an integral part of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the Maison de la Paix houses various lecture facilities and an auditorium. It actively fosters synergies that drive innovative solutions to promote peace, human security, and sustainable development.
Historian Omer Bartov, Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, reflects on his latest book, Israel: What Went Wrong? Drawing on historical analysis and personal reflection, he examines Zionism’s transformation from a movement of Jewish emancipation into a state ideology increasingly marked by ethno-nationalism.
The discussion explores the roots of the present conflict in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, including Palestinian displacement, the influence of Holocaust memory, and debates over war crimes and genocide. Moderated by Riccardo Bocco, the conversation considers responsibility, identity, historical memory, and the future of Israel and Palestine.
Elizabeth Mesok presents a sobering study of how liberal military inclusion reshapes gendered power during imperial occupations. Drawing on historical and contemporary analysis, the book examines the US military’s reliance on women—particularly Black women and women of colour—and how gender difference was weaponized through all-women counterinsurgency teams framed as humanitarian. Mesok explores the violent paradoxes of service and forces readers to confront liberalism’s promises and the erasures of harm that accompany them.
In English.
Vincent Verzat’s feature-length documentary follows his journey between activism and naturalism, weaving a personal, sensitive portrait of a man seeking balance between struggle and contemplation. Beginning from intimate encounters with wild animals, the film links individual relationships with nature to broader fights to protect habitats across France. Poetic and observational in style, it blends close-up naturalist detail with political urgency, inviting reflection on empathy, resistance and the fragile bonds between humans and the living world.
In English.
Vincent Verzat’s feature documentary unfolds as an intimate journey between activism and naturalism. With observational camerawork and quiet, contemplative pacing, the film traces his personal search for balance between struggle and attention. Interweaving sensitive portraiture and striking wildlife imagery, it connects encounters with wild animals to broader fights against habitat destruction in France. Poetic and lucid, the film privileges texture, silence, and close detail to explore resilience, loss and the ethics of witnessing.
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