Syracuse, international hub for education and for peace
Posted on May 8, 2010 by christopher
From tomorrow, for three days, Syracuse and its province will again be a crossroads of some of the most important evidence in the international debate on the relationship between religions to build an effective and sustainable model of education for peace based on dialogue in which young and in schools, one of his most important and natural landmarks.
Sign in vivo, therefore, with the arrival today in the city of the first guests of the first delegations from various countries around the world, the 18th International Conference “Education for Peace – Religions and Peace” sponsored dall’AIEP – International Association for Peace Education – chaired by Bruno Ficili, the Syracuse professor repeatedly nominated for Nobel Peace Prize and animator for more than twenty years of this initiative and many others who saw the protagonist in some of the most victimized areas of the world marked by bloody conflict.
The conference this year will be back in Priolo, where this exciting adventure has begun, and will be held in the Auditorium of the University Consortium “Megara Ibleo” Institute “Alessandro Manzoni”.
The inaugural session of the work will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, May 5 at 10 am with greetings from the mayor of Priolo Antonello Rizza. Immediately after the first of three round tables (the other two will play in the same place on Thursday 6 and Friday 7) which involved other than the chairman dell’AIEP Ficili Bruno, Archbishop Bishop of Syracuse. Salvatore Pappalardo, the Buddhist Monaco Gyosho Moriscos, Faustin Twagiramungu, former Prime Minister of Randa; Gaudiosus Ruta father, a priest in Tanzania, and the painter Iraqi Salman Jaber.
“The school now – said prof. Bruno Ficili – should impress upon the minds and hearts of his students that the class differences, differences of skin color, no difference in determining value and dignity, because every man there is in the human companion. We must simply strive for that wonderful dream, that wonderful utopia in which we believe is called solidarity, brotherhood, peace, respect for human dignity. ”
At the conclusion of the proceedings of the 18th International Conference “Education for Peace – Religions and Peace” will be entered into a joint document will be sent to governments around the world to pursue the adoption of models that encourage the creation of a culture of peace based on dialogue and having young people in school and one of its driving force.