Club de Madrid Articles

President Juan Manuel Santos awarded Nobel Peace Prize

The committee’s decision was based on “his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50 year long civil war to an end” and a peace deal signed with Farc rebels, but rejected by Colombians in a vote. Juan Manuel Santos said that he dedicated the award to "all...

Club de Madrid Member Antonio Guterres elected new United Nations Secretary General

Guterres, a staunch and unyielding champion of democracy, sustainable development and human rights, is also a natural bridge-builder, always ready to bring acumen, subtlety and moderation to every task. Moreover, he has shown a steadfast readiness and willingness to...

“They show their victory, we have to show their defeat’ Mehdi Jomaa tells BBC about ISIS

Talking from Brussels in the margins of the kick-off meeting of the CdM and the European Commission funded new initiative 'Leaders telling a different story', aimed at building a new alternative message to counter ISIS' and other violent extremism groups' propaganda,...

How to build new narratives to prevent violent extremism, core of the newest CdM project

Reinforce a response to radical messages by proposing a positive narrative based on tools from traditional media, social media and citizen journalism is the aim of the latest Club de Madrid project: ‘Preventing Violent Extremism: Leaders telling a different story’....