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EDITORIAL

Reflections
upon Our Twentieth Anniversary

Twenty years ago, the first fears. It’s one world, pal. We’re all shape a world where information
issue of Diva International was neighbors.” is free and accurate, impartial and
distributed among internationals dispassionate, and which strives
and diplomats in Geneva and New Looking back across the early days to enable all to make their own
York. Since then, it has been at times of Diva, we see a world that went judgements and form their own
a difficult path full of challenges, from a still largely traditional society opinions.
but as Friedrich Nietzsche once to a digital society, where the web
said that that which does not kill and its innumerable applications This adventure would never be
us makes us stronger. Now on this have become part of our daily possible without all the contributors
anniversary, we would like to think lives. Our phones have become who stretch out their hand, so, let
that we are emerging stronger from our wallet, our PC, our photo- me briefly mention Evelina, Robert,
these twenty years of challenges. album -- and the list can Ita, Christian, Pierre, Jean-Michel,
be extended longer and longer Djeneba, Katya, Peter, Annegret,
L’esprit de Genève is and has been depending on the number of Alex, and all the others. Diva would
the editorial line, if one might put it in applications one has added. The not be the same without you all.
this way. The aim has always been to phone has also become a terrible
create understanding among people spy or, as some would put it more Upon this final note we wish you
without taking any divisive political politically correct, a means of digital all a wonderful fall and early winter
stand. Geneva is a place where surveillance. season, and thank you once more.
we have the good fortune to meet Marit
people from all the different parts We have been lucky to be witnesses to
of the world, something that makes many important events, conferences,
our lives richer. peace negotiations, and, despite the
current challenges and difficulties,
Frank Sinatra put it this way (and it we dare to have confidence in the
might be one of our mantras), “ If future.
you don’t know the guy on the other
side of the world, love him anyway So, on this twentieth anniversary, we
because he’s just like you. He has the would first of all like to thank you
same dreams, the same hopes and for being here with us, trying to

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