Over 40 Years of Action: The Latest News, Activities, and an Opportunity in Mauritania

CISP President Maura Viezzoli shares important updates about our organization.

With a move that strengthens both its structure and its long-term outlook, the Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli – CISP (International Committee for the Development of Peoples – CISP) is officially changing its name to CISP – Sviluppo dei Popoli (CISP – Development of Peoples), or more simply CISP. This change accompanies the adoption of a new legal status: last June, the Members’ Assembly approved the transformation of the association into a Participatory Foundation. Not the creation of a new entity, but rather a transformation of the existing organization, maintaining full continuity of its legal identity, history, and commitments.

CISP, in partnership with the Department of Education Sciences at the University of Roma Tre, is launching a new training programme for the 2025–26 school year aimed at secondary school teachers (both lower and upper secondary) across the Lazio region (central Italy).
Dubbed “GCE Thursdays” (I giovedì dell’ECG), the initiative is part of the wider European project Global Education Time (GET). Its primary goal is to help teachers integrate topics concerning global challenges into their curricula while fostering an active, citizenship-focused approach among their students.
The courses will focus on four key themes from the 2030 Agenda: climate change, gender inequality, international inequality, and migration.

CISP endorsed and released Link2007’s appeal concerning the flotilla to Gaza.
 

Despite the misunderstandings often voiced with instrumental intent in the political debate in Italy, the flotilla's action was not conceived as a mission to deliver humanitarian aid. Its organizers have repeatedly made this clear: its deeper purpose was to make the blockade imposed on the people of Gaza, and the denial of their access to humanitarian assistance, starkly visible and undeniable. The arrest of participants in international waters constitutes an abuse.