{"id":342266,"date":"2013-09-10T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T09:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/learning-fraternity-peace-is-born-from-people\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:10:15","slug":"learning-fraternity-peace-is-born-from-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/learning-fraternity-peace-is-born-from-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Fraternity: Peace is born from people"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Education, the privileged pathway for seeking peace. <\/strong>This was the idea that brought together:\u00a0 families, schools, group animators, educational researchers and also some young and even very young people from many cultural backgrounds who are working daily to face the educational challenges of our times. They met at Castelgandolfo, Italy (September 6, 2013 \u2013 September 8, 2013) for a workshop entitled Learning Fraternity<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong> The two days were very dense and occurred at a very dramatic moment when a blare of voices <\/a>was raised to heaven in prayer for peace and brotherhood. In a letter to Pope Francis<\/a> the 650 educators from around the world wrote: \u201cAs Christians and citizens we feel it is our obligation and task to begin rebuilding relationships on love and justice through personal witness and with educational action that is aimed at building and spreading the culture of encounter and dialogue as the only pathway to peace.\u201d They came from 35 countries with 20 national and local stands, plus 35 <\/strong>workshops<\/strong> <\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>(from social media to sustainable development), which provided rich insight to how the principle of fraternity is being integrated into every dimension of the most diverse educational experiences. The projects ranged from preventing violence at early ages to school projects in the poorest outskirts of Santo Domingo, Nairobi and Recife. \"\"<\/a>One project was the <\/strong>Strong without violence<\/em> <\/a>project, which was developed through collaboration among the international Gen Rosso Band, the Starkmacher Association<\/a>, Caritas of Cologne, the German Federal Ministry of Work and Society, local social institutes for youth at risk, immigrants, prisons and orphanages \u2013 in all involving more than 25,000 young people. There were also people from the Dalwal<\/em> School in Punjab, Pakistan<\/strong> with its 209 students only four of whom are Christian. \u201cWe strive to avoid irenism in our educational approach,\u201d says school director Valentina Gomez<\/strong>, \u201cto form consciences that are open to universal values such as the respect for religious freedom, forgiveness, sharing.\u201d There was a group from Egypt<\/a>. Elhamy Naguib<\/strong> is an artist who has been giving workshops on mural painting. Her project is part of the Koz Kazah <\/em>Foundation. \u00a0She\u00a0 shared how she also used this art form on February 7th<\/sup> during the protests in Tahrir Square. \u201cI went to the Square and began designing murals that depicted the great aspirations of the Egyptian people.\u201d It was in this way that social justice was given the form of a scale of justice, and liberty the form of a bird. \u201cLet us never give up the hope of a democratic future for our country where everyone is equal.\u201d \"\"<\/a>The promoters of the initiative included New Humanity<\/a>, the Eucation and Unity <\/a>Association, Action for a United World<\/a> (AMU) and the Teens for Unity Movement<\/a>, as well as the educational agencies of the Focolare Movement, including families and children. Therefore, the project does not end with Learning Fraternity<\/strong>, but continues through educational practices at many levels, forming people who are capable of forming relationships with others in the ever-more complex age in which we live. Their commitment was written down in a 10-point manifesto<\/em>, an educational pact, which was presented to Pope Francis: to educate with life; to learn together so as to teach together; to \u00a0create networks of relationships; to assist each person in fulfilling his or her own path; to accept limitations, transforming them into opportunities for dialogue and growth and always beginning again. Replay streaming: http:\/\/live.focolare.org\/<\/a> Photo album: flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the conclusion of the conference, 650 educators from around the world commit themselves to an \u2018educational pact.\u2019 Their mission of teaching pathways to peace continues through hundreds of initiatives and projects already underway.<\/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-342266","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\/342266","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=342266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}