{"id":290876,"date":"2004-09-18T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-18T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/inverting-the-course-of-terrorism-through-a-new-economic-order\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:37:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:37:11","slug":"inverting-the-course-of-terrorism-through-a-new-economic-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/inverting-the-course-of-terrorism-through-a-new-economic-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverting the course of terrorism through a new economic order"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Poverty to eradicate and poverty as an option<\/strong>
There is a kind of poverty that one succumbs to, which should be eradicated; it is synonymous with misery, which is unjust and inhuman. But \u201cthere exists another kind of poverty, the kind a person freely chooses, one that is the premise to defeating misery.\u201d <\/strong>This is the vision of poverty and wealth which has developed from the experience of the Economy of Communion throughout its 13-year history in different parts of the world. This was the subject developed by Professor Luigino Bruni, political economics expert and one of the directors of the Economy of Communion Movement. \u201cAll that I have and am has been given to me, therefore I should give it in return,\u201d Prof. Bruni added. Here lies the root of the option to share, and this is how \u201cgoods can turn into bridges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Timeliness of the EoC experience<\/strong>
Chiara Lubich pointed this out, saying that \u201cit can invert the course of terrorism,\u201d because in union with \u201cother positive forces,\u201d EoC contributes to that kind of brotherhood which makes the communion of goods possible and erases social disparities. \u201cIn fact,\u201d Chiara continued, \u201cone of the root causes of terrorism is the tremendous inequality between the rich and the poor countries,\u201d which \u201cgenerates hostility and revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The primary idea of the Economy of Communion \u2013 to bridge the gap between rich and poor<\/strong>
The Focolare foundress addressed over 700 economists, researchers, entrepreneurs, laborers, students and shareholders,<\/strong> coming from such diverse points as USA, India, Eastern and Western Europe and many other parts of the world for their convention at the Mariapolis Center of Castelgandolfo (Rome). She recalled that the primary idea of the Economy of Communion came up in 1991, during her trip to Brazil; while flying over San Paulo, she was \u201cstruck by the contrast between the jungle of skyscrapers and the misery of the surrounding slum areas.\u201d<\/strong> It was then that she challenged businessmen to produce profits, destined partly to the benefit of the needy, partly to the formation of people according to a \u201cnew\u201d mentality for a \u201cnew economy,\u201d and partly to the development of the business enterprise itself.<\/p>\n

Evaluating 13 years of EoC<\/strong>
Just before Chiara\u2019s address, EoC\u2019s 13-year <\/strong>experience was evaluated under various aspects: the business enterprises being managed along EoC guidelines are 800, present all over the world, of which 470 are in Europe, and 270 in North and South America.<\/p>\n

\"\"The Economic Movement<\/strong>
Chiara Lubich had encouraged the growth of a real economic movement which could also be expressed in cultural and scientific terms, of which academic seminars, publications and theses (166 from all over the world) developed over these 13 years \u201care already a promising start.\u201d
As Prof. Bruni underscored, \u201cWithout a new culture, there would be no new economic system.\u201d<\/strong> \u201cIn EoC,\u201d he continued, \u201cwe can foresee the concrete possibility of giving rise to a new humanism; we can perceive the way to a new economic order which is more just and more inclined towards solidarity,\u201d<\/p>\n

A new vision of work<\/strong>
In the EoC perspective, work, too, assumes another significance. Taking the Gospel as a model, Chiara Lubich offered a precise strategy: <\/strong>\u201ctransform every working hour into a masterpiece of precision and harmony.\u201d \u201cMake use of one\u2019s talents and aim at perfection.\u201d \u201cWork not just to earn\u201d but \u201cto transform whatever our hand produces into love.\u201d \u201cThe receivers of our labor are our brothers.\u201d Jesus considers whatever we do to them as done to himself. \u201cThe burden of work, difficulties in working relationships, contradictions are the typical penance which a Christian shoulders.\u201d In working relationships, \u201cReciprocal love which attracts Christ\u2019s presence in the collectivity comes first,\u201d and serves as a light \u201cto discover together new ways to organize, to include all staff levels in running a business.\u201d In this way, \u201cbusiness enterprises shall become the dwelling places of God with his people, a true foretaste of Paradise.\u201d The prolonged applause that followed expressed everyone\u2019s adherence to this envigorating proposal.<\/p>\n

The afternoon program consisted in a series of experiences of business enterprises in different countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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