HISTORY

The Caux Scholars Program was established in 1991, and takes place at Mountain House, the conference center of Initiatives of Change in Caux, Switzerland. This center has served to gather the global peacebuilding community for workshops and forums for 60 years.
 
The Caux Scholars Program is an educational program of the international organization Initiatives of Change (IofC).  IofC is an informal, global network of people of diverse faiths and backgrounds, working for reconciliation and justice and focusing on what is right rather than who is right. IofC emphasizes that any lasting change in the world depends on change in the attitudes, motives and relationships of individuals. IofC encourages those with a faith to search for God's will in their daily life as the basis for individual initiative and common action, and those without, to live by the highest values they know. 
 

It began in the period preceding World War II and became known worldwide as Moral Re-Armament, or MRA. In recent decades, MRA made a contribution to the resolution of a number of international conflicts, including the independence struggles of Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Cyprus and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. MRA changed its name to Initiatives of Change in August 2001. Explore: www.iofc.org or www.caux.ch.

The Caux Scholars Program is held at Mountain House, the international center of Initiatives of Change.  Throughout the summer, IofC offers a series of conferences at Mountain House on such topics as dealing with the root causes of human insecurity, developing cultural dialogue, the role of arts in transforming society, and trustbuilding in the global economy.