Geneva Graduate Institute Library Blog
Resources and advice for students and researchers
The Library will celebrate the Year of the Horse, starting on February 17th, with a display of titles about East and Southeast Asian countries and their cultures. Read further if you want to learn more about the Lunar New Year!
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Give peace a chance! Many people would agree with this sentence, especially those living in places like Gaza or Kyiv. Geneva has claimed to be the capital of peace for more than a century. Our Institute is located in the Maison de la Paix and hosts a specialised research centre – no wonder that peace in all its dimensions is a key theme in our collections. To celebrate this year’s edition of Geneva Peace Week (13-17 October 2025), we put a small selection of documents on display at the entrance of the Library.
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Some of the titles in our collection are or were banned or challenged in a variety of countries by governments, religious authorities, or other interest groups. Dictatorships come to mind, of course, but countries thought more liberal are not exempt from similar practices. Here is a short look at our selection on display for banned books week (October ).
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Sound is all around us. It carries meaning through speech, and emotion through tone and music. The invention of radio, more than a century ago, changed the world, and the Internet gave this medium a new form through podcasts. Social science researchers, historians and anthropologists also use sound and recordings as research data or as the subject of their research, whether for oral histories or qualitative analysis.
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World AIDS day is organised every year to raise awareness of the challenges faced by people living with this disease, remember those who lost their lives and be aware that in 2023, there were 39.9 million people living with HIV (https://aidsinfo.unaids.org/). Here is a selection of titles that can bring you to better understand the origins and issues faced by people living with AIDS.
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