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Branch Archives of SCI Catalonia
SCI Catalonia was founded in the course of democratisation in Spain after Franco’s death in the early 1980s as “Servei Català de Camps de Traball”. It has been the first, and for some time the only, SCI Branch on Spanish territory. They recently gave parts of their records to the National Archives of Catalonia where…
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Hans und Mary Bruderer-Hutchinson
Noch im vergangenen Februar zahlten Hans und Mary Bruderer ihren Mitgliederbeitrag ein. Im Vermerk schrieben sie: Das ist voraussichtlich unsere letzte Zahlung. Wir sind 94 und 98 Jahre alt und Mitglieder seit über 65 Jahren!. Kurze Zeit darauf erhielt der SCI die Todesanzeige der beiden treuen Mitglieder. Auf der alten Mitgliedskarteikarte stand, dass sie sich…
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Spotlight on SCI History: SCI in Greece
This years’ Internation Comittee Meeting of Service Civil International (SCI) will be held in Greece, remembering 30 years of uninterrupted SCI activity in the country.The first SCI activists working in Greece, however, were representatives of the British IVSP who went there for doing relief and welfare work shortly after the liberation in 1944.
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Memories from Algeria 1962
Fritz Lampert, a well known German paediatrician published his memories in 2011. In chapter 16 he describes his journey to Algeria after independence in 1962. His experience as young physician has been translated to English and is now published on the website of SCI Archives.
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Spotlight on SCI History: Computer aided placement
Isn’t it normal that many things changed in the long history of the Service Civil International? SCI branches were founded and some has been dissolved as well. Organisational structure were created, modified and dissolved. Even some ideas has changed. However I think some technical and organisational challenges stayed. If you run organisation like SCI then…
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New publication covering SCI activities in Spain
SCI’s contribution to humanitarian relief during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) remains an interesting field for academic research in SCI International Archives.British historian Gabriel Pretus lately published his thesis covering different approaches to humanitarian aid during the Civil War in Spain.
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Exhibition on SCI service in Liechtenstein 1928
In September 1927 a flood in the Rhine valley devastated big parts of Liechtenstein. The SCI committee initated an international appeal for a relief project in order to clean up the devastated agricultural area. More than 700 volunteers from more than 20 countries came to help.In June the National Museum of Liechtenstein shows a special…
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Spotlight on SCI History: SCI under attack – the Daily Telegraph affair
In my last spotlight I have reported the difficulties SCI encountered in authoritarian South East Asian countries when it wanted to register a new sub-office. But political contestation due to its pacifist ideology has also affected SCI under comparably liberal political circumstances.
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2026 (1)
2024 (4)
2023 (2)
2021 (7)
- SCI 100th Anniversary – a virtual museum
- 100 years of ‘first workcamp’ – the continuation (part 3)
- 100 years of ‘first workcamp’ – the continuation (part 2)
- Exhibition in Barcelona about refugee children in Catalonia and in the south of France 1939
- 100 years of ‘first workcamp’ – the continuation (part 1)
- Wikipedia for Peace: Writing about SCI History (Online Workcamp)
- Bhupendra “Bhuppy” Kishore died on December 31, 2020, aged 84
2018 (7)
2017 (13)
- Two different Peace Calendars 2004/2005 and 2006
- Review – Revue 1971-1974″ and “Annual Report 1975
- The ‘SCI in Germany’ Archives Collections (Volume 1)
- “Anatomy of a Work-Campleader”, Seminar report, 1986
- Not an SCI Handbook on Workcamps, Seminar report, 1985
- SCI Draft 5 Year Development Plan 1965/70
- First SCI International Constitution, 1949
- Piet Kruithof passed away
- How to be environmentally sensitive at workcamps, brochure, ca. 2001
- 70 years of SCI postcard, 1990
- St. Stephan Workcamp Diary, 1946
- Swiss SCI veteran and lifelong peace activist Fridolin Trüb died at the age of 97
- Different SCI International Leaflets, 1980s
2016 (9)
- Poster ‘SCI International Solidarity Campaign with SWAPO’, late 1980s
- ‘Structure of SCI’ diagram, mid-1980s
- 65 items of SCI Switzerland pocket calendars, 1953- 2017
- Crossing Borders – International Refugee Campaign Resource Pack (1996)
- Paix, Pelle et Pioche” – A History of SCI Until 1965
- 70 Years of Workcamps in Finland!
- Obituary Arthur Gillette
- The Friedland 1946 Workcamp diary facsimile
- Cheap Jack 92 – The City Guide to East and West
2015 (8)
- SCI Sri Lanka Anniversary Publication
- SCI Nepal Diary with Directory 2002
- Meeting with former International Secretaries in Bangalore, India
- From the SCI Archives: Guidelines for presentations on SCI (December 1946)
- A visit by SCI France
- t’Boschhuis
- Pioneering for a peaceful society
- From the SCI Archives: Les Soeurs du Service Civil
2013 (7)
- Hans und Mary Bruderer-Hutchinson
- Spotlight on SCI History: SCI in Greece
- Memories from Algeria 1962
- Spotlight on SCI History: Computer aided placement
- New publication covering SCI activities in Spain
- Exhibition on SCI service in Liechtenstein 1928
- Spotlight on SCI History: SCI under attack – the Daily Telegraph affair
2012 (9)
- Iran 1963: A review on a reconstruction project
- Spotlight on SCI History: SCI in Malaysia
- A blog around workcamps in the mid-1950’s
- Branch archives accessible
- The children of Elne
- New book about Spanish Civil War with photos from SCI
- Spotlight on SCI History: Words and deeds – the Uddel Seminar in 1969
- Ceresole exhibiton in Luzern
- SCI Madrid: Exhibition on SCI in Spanish Civil War
2011 (7)
- New coordinator for SCI International Archives
- Ceresole exhibiton in Winterthur in 2012
- Commemorative plaque for SCI volunteers in Burjassot
- A website dedicated to SCI veteran Fridolin Trüb
- SCI volunteer recognized as Righteous among the Nations
- Farewell to Emma Ott and Elisabeth Eidenbenz
- Brynmawr: Eighty years IVS Great Britain
2010 (7)
2009 (13)
- Emergency Action
- Winner of SCI Anniversary Photo Competition
- SCI Anniversary 1920 – 2010
- Présentation de Pierre Ceresole
- Pierre Ceresole (1879 – 1945): A lifetime serving Peace
- Ceresole Walking Tour – Sunday 22. August 2010
- Zielona Góra 1964 ? (Poland)
- Photo Competition for SCI Anniversary 1920-2010
- Presentation on SCI efforts for an Alternative Service
- Some words about the starting up of SCI in Hungary and Poland
- New archives section Belarus
- Documentary planned on Spanish Civil War (1937-39)
- SCI Archives Progress Report for 2008