Addressing Europe's Unfinished Business (AEUB) is a four-year programme that seeks to engage European citizens from all backgrounds to conceive and participate in actions developing a spirit of partnership and solidarity across Europe in order to achieve the needed peacebuilding efforts in this continent. This programme reaches out to the 50 countries which are officially recorded as European, members of the Council of Europe and/or the European Union.
Aims & Goals
To encourage each participant to think about their own personal role by gaining and offering respect to one another for our personal and national beliefs, values, identity, history and culture.
Aims & Goals
To encourage each participant to think about their own personal role by gaining and offering respect to one another for our personal and national beliefs, values, identity, history and culture.
Europe is a model of peace and reconciliation. Europe upholds the values of democracy. And yet...
WHY AEUB?
Addressing Europe's Unfinished Business was born out of the recognition that numerous identity and border issues remain unresolved today in Europe, just as they were before WWI begun in 1914. Sadly, the developments in Eastern Europe in 2014 showed that an escalation into open conflict is still a real risk. AEUB aims to engage citizens from all backgrounds to discuss common issues, share expertise and experience, commit to European peacebuilding on a personal level and participate in common initiatives that may lead the European community to achieve the necessary change.
WHAT CAN WE DO?
AEUB views peace as a stable and enduring condition based on democratic governance where minorities' rights are guaranteed, where conflicts are addressed through honest dialogue and peaceful mediation, where relations among states and among communities within states are governed by trust: a mutual trust and a trust in national and international institutions.
AEUB wishes to contribute to the European peacebuilding process by addressing both the roots and the potential causes of violence as well as through the creation of a wide social demand for peaceful conflict resolution. To that end, AEUB intends to unite people from all over Europe who possess the necessary experience to propose solutions and to confront challenging topics such as:
- Multiculturalism
- Immigration
- Regional and other minority rights
To achieve the connection of European citizens with their history and values, AEUB will pursue two courses of action:
- An annual conference at Caux, Switzerland
- Grassroots initiatives between conferences
ETHOS
AEUB views peace as a stable and sustainable situation based on democratic governance, where minorities’ rights are guaranteed, where conflicts are addressed through honest dialogue and peaceful mediation, where relations between states, as well as between communities within states, are governed by trust: mutual trust and trust in national and international institutions.
AEUB wishes to contribute to European peacebuilding by addressing some of the root and potential causes for violence, and by creating a wide social demand for peaceful conflict resolution. To that end, it intends to unite people from all over Europe who possess the necessary experience and solutions for challenges such as: