The World Political Forum

Autori di Pace. Convegno letterario e incontro con gli autori

Editorial staff — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:17:09 +0000

Domenica 11 settembre, ore 10.00
Cittadella di Alessandria – Piazza d’Armi ed aree espositive

A dieci anni esatti dai tragici eventi delle Torri Gemelle, Domenica 11 settembre 2011, il Comune di Alessandria ha deciso di ricordare quest’autentica cesura temporale nella ridefinizione della nostra contemporaneità, promuovendo in collaborazione con il Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, la Libreria Internazionale Luxemburg di Torino e The World Political Forum, un appuntamento dedicato agli Autori di pace. Scrittori che attraverso l’invenzione letteraria o la narrazione di proprie esperienze di vita, hanno scelto di farsi artefici e “guide” di pace, promuovendo l’integrazione tra i popoli, l’incontro tra culture, nel rifiuto di ogni forma di sopraffazione, di emarginazione, di violenza.

L’evento si terrà nell’ambito della più ampia manifestazione realizzata dal Comune di Alessandria con il supporto del Ministero della Difesa e dedicata alle “Operazioni di pace nel XXI secolo”, in programma Venerdì 9, Sabato 10 e Domenica 11 settembre pv nella suggestiva cornice della Cittadella alessandrina. Il convegno finalizzato ad approfondire il tema del peacekeeping vedrà la partecipazione di analisti, esperti, rappresentanti delle Istituzioni e delle Forze Armate nazionali, nonché referenti delle organizzazioni internazionali ONU NATO e UE.

Domenica 11 a corollario d’intensi dibattiti, case study e tavole rotonde, due gli incontri in programma con gli Autori di pace, ospitati sempre all’interno delle sale della Cittadella. Alle 10.00 Andrea Angeli, giornalista, addetto stampa e peacekeeper presso le Nazioni Unite, racconterà la sua vita ” in prima linea” dal Cile alla Cambogia; da Sarajevo a Mostar; dall’Albania al Kosovo fino alla tragedia di Nassiriya in Iraq, di cui è stato diretto testimone ed il conflitto in Afghanistan.

A seguire lo scrittore Eraldo Affinati, da tempo appassionato insegnante di italiano ai minorenni non accompagnati della Città dei Ragazzi di Roma e collaboratore del Corriere della Sera e di Famiglia Cristiana, presenterà il suo ultimo romanzo “L’11 settembre di Eddy il ribelle”. A chi era ancora bambino nel 2001, Affinati racconta il più grave attacco terroristico di tutti i tempi e il suo significato nella storia dei popoli del mondo.

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Comunicato Stampa

Amos Oz: unto peace

Editorial staff — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:55:27 +0000

Thursday 11 November, 4.00 pm
Monumental Complex of S. Croce, Bosco Marengo

During his stay in Piedmont to receive the “International Book Fair Prize “, the Israeli writer will meet the public, the institutions and local associations based in the Province of Alessandria.

Author of essays, novels and children’s books, Amos Oz is recognized as one of the most important voices in world literature, and has become a prominent figure of the Israeli peace movement.

His essay How to Cure a Fanatic tackles the problem of modern fanaticism as one of the most insidious evils of contemporary world and a serious obstacle to any peace process, including that between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. The book illustrates the nature of fanaticism in order to suggest suitable paths to overcoming it. The author’s attention focuses particularly on the concept of compromise as mediation, the ability to meet the “other”, recognizing the dignity of his views.

All his work, moreover, mirrors the active commitment of Amos Oz in favour of peace, a commitment that perfectly matches with the devotion of the Province of Alessandria in promoting and encouraging the presence, over all its territory, of cultural institutions and associations operating for peace, as well as projects that testify the international advocacy of this territory and the strong will to bind to other cultural and political realities, in building together a peaceful coexistence between peoples.

Opening greetings: Rolando Picchioni, Executive Director, The World Political Forum
Moderator: Rita Rossa, Vice president of the Province of Alessandria

The initiative is promoted by the Province of Alessandria and the World Political Forum.

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Press review 2009

Editorial staff — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:08:46 +0000

The press review 2009 is now available: Participation in COP 15 – UNFCCC, 1989: Year of the political Earthquake in Europe, Twenty Years after: The World(s) beyond the Wall, Energy for a Sustainable Future, Overcoming Nuclear Dangers, Peace with Water.
Download the pdf (35 mb)..

For further information or details, please contact Lucia De Rienzo: l.derienzo@theworldpoliticalforum.org

Participation in COP 15 - UNFCCC

Editorial staff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:33:01 +0000

7-19 December 2009
Copenhagen

The World Political Forum took part in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, 7-19 December to submit to the attention of the participants the Memorandum for a World Water Protocol which has been elaborated by the international conference «Peace with Water», held in February 2009 in collaboration with the European Parliament Groups.

The WPF asked that water is inserted in the agenda of the COP 15 discussion, since the current «world water crisis» is at the core of the environmental problems for which the UNFCCC meeting was searching a solution. The Memorandum exposes in fact the reasoning that justifies the urgency of an initiative in favour of a new worldwide water policy, inspired by a new political paradigm. It represents a contribution to the international governmental negotiations currently being defined, in view of the outline and approval of the new post-Kyoto 2013 agreement.

Documents

Memorandum Summary: English Version - French Version

Memorandum Full English Version

A World Political Forum Initiative- Appeal

Related article by Riccardo Petrella: Italian version - French version

1989: Year of the political Earthquake in Europe

Editorial staff — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:01:14 +0000

9 November 2009, 10.00-13.00
Turin, Palazzo Lascaris

The Regional Council of Piedmont and the World Political Forum organized in Turin a public discussion on the theme: “1989 - Year of the political Earthquake in Europe“.

20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the popular revolutions which have transformed the political landscape in Eastern Europe, this event provided an occasion to reflect on the sources and driving forces of these historic changes as well as about the way in which they have marked the image of the new integrated and enlarged Europe.
Five prominent experts coming for Poland, Russia, Germany, Great Britain and Italy took part to the debate:

Enzo Bettiza, Journalist, Writer, Columnist for La Stampa, Italy
Andrei Grachev, former Spokesman of President Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia
John Lloyd, Journalist, Columnist for the Financial Times, UK
Wolfgang Schluchter, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Heidelberg Universität; Director, Marsilius Kolleg, Heidelberg Universität, Germany
Henryk Szlajfer, Professor of Political Sciences, Warsaw University and Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Documents

Press Documentation & Review

Khaled Fouad Allam

Secretariat — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:00:08 +0000

Khaled Fouad Allam teaches Sociology of the Muslim world and History and Institutions of the Islamic countries at the Universites of Trieste, Urbino and at the Stanford University of Florence. He has been an expert consultant for the European Union on issues regarding Islam and immigration and on the relation between citizenship and religious identity at the European Council in Strasbourg. He has been a Deputy at the Chamber of Deputies for the Italian Parliament (XV legislature) and a member of the Commission for Constitutional and Internal Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies, presided over by Luciano Violante. From november 2008 expert consultant of the President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament for intercultural matters and the dialogue among religions. He is a member of the Committee of editorial Staff of the magazine “MARS - Le Monde Arabe dans la Recherche Scientifique”, published in Paris by the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA). He collaborated with various weekly magazines and with the daily newspaper La Stampa, and has been an editorialist for La Repubblica. Now he is editorialist for the Osservatore Romano, the Holy See daily newspaper. He is a cultural adviser for the Book Fair of Turin.

Links

Editorial staff — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:05:29 +0000

Partner, collaborator and other subjects.

Belfer Center

Center for Global Studies

European Parliament

Gesellschaft für Aussenpolitik

Globus et Locus

HARVARD Kennedy School

Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Italian Ministry of the Environment

The Gorbachev Foundation

UNICRI- Freedom from fear

Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale

Overcoming Nuclear Danger

Editorial staff — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:42:09 +0000

December 2007 marked the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in Washington by Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan. On the occasion of this anniversary, The World Political Forum and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University held an international conference entitled, “Overcoming Nuclear Danger.”

The hope is that we can still be able to extract lessons from the ambitious zeroing out of an entire category of nuclear weapons and apply them to identify actions that should be taken to minimize the risks of nuclear terrorism and nuclear war.
The conference assembled 45 experts from Russia, the United States, and other nations for serious discussions of these challenges.

“Overcoming Nuclear Danger” is edited by Andrei Grachev and published by Marsilio Editore.

Index

From Global Warning to Global Policy

Editorial staff — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:41:05 +0000

The conference “From Global Warning to Global Policy”, organized by the World Political Forum and by the Club of Rome, took place in Turin on 28-29 March 2008 and dealt with issues of great importance, such as climate change, crisis of ecosystems, excessive and not sustainable consumption of energy, devastations and diminishing of water resources.

The meeting analysed the tragic consequences of global warming, leading to huge migrations of environmental refugees that cause local and regional conflicts, and the question of poverty.

According to the distinguished personalities who participated in the conference, the main problem regarding solutions is not in the limits of technology or of finance. The key problem is in the non-sufficiency of world rules accepted by everybody and in the weakness of the solutions proposed by the world political institutions, that should be able to make the community of States, of business world and of international civil society act to reach the common goals. The possible solutions indicated by the speakers are published in this book.

“From Global Warning to Global Policy”‚ is edited by Andrei Grachev and Carla Marchese and published by Marsilio Editore.

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European Dream: Promises and Reality

Editorial staff — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:39:41 +0000

Outstanding leaders and experts of the international political scene gathered in Budapest on 27-28 November 2007 to analyze the topic “European Dream: Promises and Reality”. They discussed the big challenges that the European Union has to face on its 50th anniversary, after the extraordinary changes that happened from the end of the Cold War on. In particular, the speakers focused on themes which are central today in the international debate, such as: the role of the EU in the new world political context, the consequences of the recent process of enlargement in the EU, the reform of the European social model, the necessity of a real and common foreign and security policy, EU‚ the relationships with its neighbours (Turkey, Russia, Balkans) and the Mediterranean region.

The Seminar represented a privileged occasion to reflect on the actions that the European Union should take to face these new challenges with a proper balance of effectiveness, cooperation and solidarity. All the speeches contributions are published in this book.

“European Dream: Promises and Reality” is edited by Andrei Grachev and Claudio Mandrino and published by Marsilio Editore.

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