{"id":341260,"date":"2012-07-18T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/genfest-an-observatory-on-fraternity\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:07:09","slug":"genfest-an-observatory-on-fraternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/genfest-an-observatory-on-fraternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Genfest: An Observatory on Fraternity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_67270\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67270\" class=\" wp-image-67270 \" style=\"margin-right: 10px; border: black 1px solid;\" title=\"UWProject\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/UWProject.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"140\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-67270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Project Logo<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>What future awaits us?<\/strong> This is the question being asked by millions of youths from Asia to theMiddle East who do not wish to just sit back and watch. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genfest.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Genfest<\/strong><\/a> will be an opportunity for many of them to broaden their horizon beyond the civil wars and failed revolutions, global crises and a culture of fear \u2013 to make more daring proposals. One such proposal involves the formation of a research group that would examine whether fraternity, that \u201cforgotten principle\u201d of modern history would be able to influence both our individual and collective choices and decisions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>United World Project (UWP)<\/strong>is the name of a project that was created by the Focolare\u2019s Youth For A United World (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.y4uw.org\/\">www.y4uw.org<\/a>) and it is open to collaboration with all youth groups and international networks from other religions and cultures with whom it has cooperated on other topics in the past. According to the inspiring words of Chiara Lubich: \u201cFraternity can bring about freedom and equality in the city, and this consists in creating the conditions so that every person, every citizen, family, association, business and school can express its own personality and offer the best of itself.\u201d It is up to the youth to translate this idea into concrete decisions. With the help of experts and other young professionals the project has already begun to take shape and will be carried out in three phases: <strong>Network<\/strong>, <strong>Watch<\/strong> (the observatory) and <strong>Workshop<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-67283\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; border: 0px;\" title=\"20120718-02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120718-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"212\" \/>United World <strong>NETWORK<\/strong>: To form a worldwide network of youths who are asked to personally commit themselves by putting their signature to it. The goal will be to study the requirements for a culture of universal fraternity and for commitment to living the Golden Rule: Do to unto others as you would have them do unto you. This first phase of the project would begin during the Genfest, with the first gathering of signatures. It would continue until the launching of the next World Unity Week, 1 May 2013, when the Observatory will be formally established.<\/li>\n<li>United World<strong> WATCH<\/strong>:The establishment of a permanent international Observatory to examine activities and projects that were capable of producing an \u201cincrease in the level of fraternity\u201d in the social, economic, cultural and political fabric of the world. It will evaluate indicators of social cohesion, peace, acceptance and dialogue among people of different religions and culture, interdependence, recognition of rights, forgiveness and reconciliation, inclusion and integration, reduction in inequalities, respect for and awareness of the environment. . . The Observatory would also promote specific cultural activities.<\/li>\n<li>United World<strong> WORKSHOP<\/strong>: The request to the UN that it recognize the international interests of the World Unity Week by confirming and expanding even more the annual event that for fifteen years it has seen the youths of the Focolare and others being committed to in spreading the word about universal fraternity. The process of recognition by the UN is already underway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>United World Project <\/strong>is for all countries, but the continent ofAfrica holds a special place, since it has been welcoming the Youth For A United World\u2019s \u2018spaces of fraternity\u2019 since the 1960\u2019s. Through this common path and sharing in the suffering of others, they have acquired a strong sense of community, discovered new models for involvement and real change.<\/p>\n<p>Ark<strong> Tabin from the Philippines<\/strong> belongs to a UWP work group. He is particularly involved with mapping out the various projects already underway in several countries which will serve as the basis for the observatory. In his city, for example, there is a nutrition programme for the poorest children and a clothing drive for hospital patients from distant villages. For him, his signature \u201cdoes not only mean espousing an idea, but committing to living a better life, to looking around, to intervening. When you\u2019ve signed our name, it means you want to get involved in changing the world beginning from your own corner of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The appointment is for 1 September 2012 where the gathering of signatures is to be part of the large Genfest event entitled <strong>Let\u2019s Bridge<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genfest.org\/\">www.genfest.org<\/p>\n<p><\/a>More info at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/area-press-focus\/it\/\">https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/area-press-focus\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The logo made by a young Italian graphic artist, is composed of two circles. The interior circle \u2013 outlined in pencil \u2013 represents the world. The external circle \u2013 coloured in blue to signify the universality of Heaven \u2013 represents a protective mantle. Other religious or political meanings have been excluded.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<table style=\"width: 317px; height: 197px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/eacea.ec.europa.eu\/index_en.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-58115 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/eacea_logo_en.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"53\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/eacea.ec.europa.eu\/citizenship\/index_en.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-58116 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/citizenship_4c_en-178x109.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"52\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/eacea.ec.europa.eu\/citizenship\/index_en.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-58117 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/citizenship_en.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"63\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\">\n<h5>The Genfest 2012 project has been funded with support from the European Commission.<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United World Project leads in the establishment of a permanent international observatory on Fraternity. 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