{"id":328334,"date":"2016-06-09T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/poland-from-conflict-to-unity-through-dialogue\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:04:21","slug":"poland-from-conflict-to-unity-through-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/poland-from-conflict-to-unity-through-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Poland: From Conflict to Unity through Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"foto\"<\/a>The spacious \u201cKnowledge Sharing Centre\u201d Hall of the<\/strong> John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin<\/a> hosted a\u00a0Conflicts, Dialogue and Culture of Unity<\/a>\u00a0Conference , June 3-4, 2016. The conference was meant to promote the transmission of knowledge through academic dialogue amongst 180 people, including scholars and professors from a variety of academic fields of the social sciences. Ninety five interactive presentations were given that included discussions, questions and answers, as well as requests for sharing research efforts. It was a gift shared amongst different specializations, but also amongst generations and geographic regions of Europe, and it was open to the challenges of the whole world. The conference that opened with<\/strong> Jes\u00fas Mor\u00e1n<\/a>\u2019s presentation titled<\/strong> \u201cThe Culture of Unity and the great challenges of humanity today\u201d<\/em> was motivated by the 20th anniversary of the conferral of the honorary doctorate in Social Sciences to Chiara Lubich<\/a>, by the Catholic University of Lublin in June 1996. The conferral speech by Professor Adam Biela explained the motivation: The charism of unity \u201cis a concrete and practical actualization of a new vision of social, economic, political, educational structures and of religious relations. It guides, recommends, suggests, teaches and promotes unity\u201d among people. Biela grasped in the revolutionary inspiration of Chiara Lubich that began to manifest itself in the 1940s, the elements of a new paradigm for the social sciences, which led him to coin the unprecedented term: paradigm of unity. The event, 20 years later,<\/strong> in Lublin was \u201ca complex and interesting\u201d meeting, according to Professor Italo Fiorin,<\/strong> president of the graduate school of Formation Science at LUMSA University in Rome, Italy. \u201c. . . especially because of the title, which connects three words: Conflict \u2013 reflecting on the not catastrophic but problematic situation of the world that calls for a sense of responsibility. Dialogue: as the path that leads to and changes conflict into something else through positive action. Unity: as the result of a dialogue that is not expressed in reaching a single way of thinking, but of reaching a greater awareness of one\u2019s own identity.\u201d \u201cFor 200 to 300 years knowledge has been divided into fields,\u201d says neuro-scientist Catherine Belzung<\/strong> from the University of Tours, France. \u201cBut the actual fragmentation prevents progress from being made. The time of interdisciplinary dialogue has arrived. Chiara Lubich\u2019s thought seems to me the paradigm to keep before us when we are interested in interdisciplinary research, because it\u2019s a Trinitarian paradigm: Each field remains distinct, but must have within it the knowledge of the other disciplines in order to be transformed and, in this way, continue the dialogue. I think that the unity and distinction model that is already being proposed in the spiritual field can be very easily transferred to the field of interdisciplinary dialogue.\u201d Professor Marek Rembierz,<\/strong> pedagogue from the University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, remarked: \u201cIt turned out very interesting for me to think on an interdisciplinary plane. And it took quite a change in mentality: modifying the language of science and culture with the language of the heart. It was a source of inspiration for the participants and could also be so for the social life of individuals. Gianvittorio Caprara<\/strong>, full professor of psychology and social neurosciences at Sapienza University in Rome: \u201cChiara Lubich had some particularly good and fertile intuitions; fertile because they inspired a work, a movement; now they inspire this conference and other research. It\u2019s ongoing reflection that becomes inspiration. One particular discovery for me was the deep significance of the concept of fraternity, precisely in a society like ours that seriously risks not having brothers and sisters anymore. I encourage the Focolare to insist even more on the systematic research of knowledge so that the action can be even more transformative and efficacious.\u201d \u201cWith regard to fraternity,\u201d Fiorin says<\/strong>, \u201cProfessor Stefano Zamagni worked on a fascinating point in his presentation on the Economy of Communion<\/a> and even referred it to politics. I believe that such a reading is also applicable to education, to inspire the education and teaching connection and to lead to important educational solutions. It\u2019s a terrain that merits exploring, to which I intend to devote my attention.\u201d The closing session of the conference was entrusted to Professor Biela<\/strong>, Daniela Ropelato<\/strong>, vice-president of Sophia University Institute (IUS<\/a>) and Renata Simon<\/strong> from the International Focolare Centre in Rocca di Papa, Italy. A thought from Chiara Lubich offered some powerful guidelines to give continuity to the interdisciplinary dialogue that permeated the conference: \u201cIn order to welcome [God\u2019s] All within you, you need to be the nothingness of Jesus Forsaken.\u00a0(. . .) You have to place yourself in front of everyone in a learning position, because you really do have something to learn. And only nothingness gathers all and holds it tightly to itself in unity.\u201d It was an encouragement that was unanimously accepted: to collaborate, with competence, wisdom and an ability to dialogue even on the academic plane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty years after the conferral of the honorary doctorate in Social Sciences to Chiara Lubich, an interdisciplinary conference is promoted by John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Sophia University Institute, and the Focolare\u2019s Centre for Dialogue with Contemporary Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}