An exhibit to reflect on the infinite wealth of human experience. Portraits and images of men and women from all the world, different for culture, religion, age, instruction... All equated from being primarily human beings,owner of human rights. Behind each face there is a distinct, unique history, but also difficulties, barriers,different opportunities. The exhibit shows panels with striking pictures of professional photographers and quotations of important historical personalities who speaks about humanity, respect, dialogue, condivision.
The exhibit
An exhibit to reflect on the infinite wealth of human experience. Portraits and images of men and women from all the world, different for culture, religion, age, instruction... All equated from being primarily human beings,owner of human rights. Behind each face there is a distinct, unique history, but also difficulties, barriers,different opportunities. The exhibit shows panels with striking pictures of professional photographers and quotations of important historical personalities who speaks about humanity, respect, dialogue, condivision.
Mission of the project
In reference to human rights too often is substantial the gap between principles and applications, between theories and real events, only in some cases brought to light by the media. Every project, every selfless act intended to support the development and effective implementation of these rights, it is a small step in the construction of a community building that protects every single person, regardless of culture or "religious" membership. From a sincere dialogue, respect, mutual understanding we should therefore provide new nonstop routes and perspectives patiently nurturing a genuine culture of human rights. We live in a media society, characterized by speed and easy accessibility of information, but the risk is to lose the connection with reality, with the micro, with the unique experiences of each human being. To act and react to this vision limiting and stereotypical of cultures, traditions, religions, it is necessary first of all, however, the desire to build something new, the willingness to report imbalances and violations, fighting without violence for the affirmation of human rights. It is a challenge now urgent that every person, every citizen of a globalized world can accept, ignore or fight. As human beings, in fact, we do not share only the place where we live, the earth, but also the future. The only way is therefore a sincere comparison, away from an ethnocentric and narcissistic attitude. Should be promoted tirelessly and selflessly sharing knowledge, listening to each other, away from the hype, hypocrisy, economic interests. Words like justice, solidarity, dialogue, respect, freedom, right too often are used in an instrumental way, making them empty. In this context, the exhibition "Faces, tales, Human Rights" part from individual experiences in an attempt to carve out a physical and mental space, where to compare ways of life and conceptions of "distant" from "our" experience. Behind each captured image, behind every personal story told, appear variegated experiences, emotions, many claiming to be "recognized". It 'an opportunity to gather with respect and "sacredness" the precious heritage of all human experience which intersects with the collective history.
Organizing Commettee
Serena Gianfaldoni (Italy)
Serena Gianfaldoni is the creator and curator of the project "Faces, Tales, Human Rights." As president of the italian "National Festival of Cultures" she deals with intercultural issues and interreligious dialogue, organizing cultural, artistic, scientific events. She is a member of the Laboratory of Social Science at University of Pisa where she investigates in the fields of communication and cultural mediation with research and publications. As trainer she teaches intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, sociology of culture. As a member of boarding commettee of OSIM (Centre for International Studies on the Mediterranean) she deals with immigration, integration and social inclusion policies. She founded and directs the ReteHospes, a network that connects experts and professors from various disciplines that deal with globalization issues. As part of the Italian Society of Sociology she organizes conferences, training courses, cultural events.
Serena Gianfaldoni is the creator and curator of the project "Faces, Tales, Human Rights." As president of the italian "National Festival of Cultures" she deals with intercultural issues and interreligious dialogue, organizing cultural, artistic, scientific events. She is a member of the Laboratory of Social Science at University of Pisa where she investigates in the fields of communication and cultural mediation with research and publications. As trainer she teaches intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, sociology of culture. As a member of boarding commettee of OSIM (Centre for International Studies on the Mediterranean) she deals with immigration, integration and social inclusion policies. She founded and directs the ReteHospes, a network that connects experts and professors from various disciplines that deal with globalization issues. As part of the Italian Society of Sociology she organizes conferences, training courses, cultural events.
www.serenagianfaldoni.blogspot.it
www.italianfestivalofcultures.blogspot.it
www.italianfestivalofcultures.blogspot.it
Dorit Kedar is the Founder of The Center of Inter-Religious Peace in Tel Aviv and the author of “The Book of Inter-religious Peace” famous project that traveled in whole world. . Thinker, art critic, artist, writer, curator, lecturer, mystic. She was born in Israel’s first year of existence to a native and a survivor of the holocaust from Austria. Raised in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Spain, Israel, Switzerland and the USA she has been exposed to the diversity of cultures and beliefs. She is continuously striving to unify spiritual values and practice, philosophy and science, theology and art. She is involved in many activities aiming to explore the Mystery of the Unknown within the concrete everyday reality.
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Ahmed Habouss (Morocco)
Anthropologist of Berber origins, professor at the University of Naples L'Orientale. President of OSIM (Centre for International Studies on the Mediterranean). Starting from a economist, sociologist and anthropologist perspective, acquired at Université Paris VIII, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Le Collège de France, Ahmed Habouss has become, over the years, a specialist of the Maghreb (North Africa), and of the (Mashreq) Middle East. He attended lectures and seminars by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault and Jacques Berque. His research activities are enriched by international and interdisciplinary experiences between Morocco, France and Italy. He has held numerous research for various organizations on issues of migration, Islamic civilization, the rural exodus, the Berber language and culture. He is currently doing research on the Arab world in its unity and diversity. Director of OSIM Centre for International Studies on the Mediterranean
Silvia Guetta (Italy)
Professor at University of Florence, Department of Education Sciences and Psychology. She teaches General and Social Pedagogy. She is (an) expert of peace studies. intercultural and interreligious education, nonviolent strategies, inclusion. She was involved in many Peace Education Projects in Middle East, especially of Israeli and Palestinian conflict. With UNESCO and UNICEF she worked on peace education and evaluation of structural violence processes. She is coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on "Human Development and the Culture of Peace” for the University of Florence in relation with UNESCO Paris, for projects of education for peace in the Middle East. Many publications and books: “The community of practices of UNESCO Chairs for interreligious and intercultural dialogue for mutual understanding”; “To teach a future world. Alliances intercultural and interreligious dialogue development of a culture of peace”; “Peace Shining Through the Sails. Experiences of international cooperation and research of co-existence among cultures, rights and human development”.
Nicola Messina (Italy)
Nicola Messina, naturalist and explorer, after a scholarship at the italian Biophysics Institute of C. N. R.,travelled around the world, from Europe to Central America, Africa and especially south-east Asia. In 2007 he travelled to the Malaysian Borneo where he lived for a long time after being fascinated by its rainforests. He worked on Mount Kinabalu and for other national parks, studying also many areas in Sarawak. At present he works between Italy and the Indo- Malaysian region.He has been engaged by the Indonesian government to lead a naturalistic expedition in the remote Maluku islands in 2015 based on his professionalism and travelling experience.He also organized some photo exhibitions about the forests of Borneo in some prestigious location.
www.geographyca.com
Urmila Chakraborty (India)
Urmila Chakraborty, born in India, has been living in Milan, Italy for more than 15 years. She has lived and worked in many different countries. She is the founder / director of Englishour and a professor in the Faculty of Linguistic and Cultural Mediation at the State University of Milan. She is also a writer, translator (from and to English, Bengali and Hindi), interpreter and a TIP licensed coach. She has long standing collaborations with various Italian cultural institutions in the field of intercultural education. She has various publications ranging across diverse subjects related to the Indian socio-cultural scenario.
Patrizia Magnante (Italy)
Nicola Messina, naturalist and explorer, after a scholarship at the italian Biophysics Institute of C. N. R.,travelled around the world, from Europe to Central America, Africa and especially south-east Asia. In 2007 he travelled to the Malaysian Borneo where he lived for a long time after being fascinated by its rainforests. He worked on Mount Kinabalu and for other national parks, studying also many areas in Sarawak. At present he works between Italy and the Indo- Malaysian region.He has been engaged by the Indonesian government to lead a naturalistic expedition in the remote Maluku islands in 2015 based on his professionalism and travelling experience.He also organized some photo exhibitions about the forests of Borneo in some prestigious location.
www.geographyca.com
Urmila Chakraborty (India)
Urmila Chakraborty, born in India, has been living in Milan, Italy for more than 15 years. She has lived and worked in many different countries. She is the founder / director of Englishour and a professor in the Faculty of Linguistic and Cultural Mediation at the State University of Milan. She is also a writer, translator (from and to English, Bengali and Hindi), interpreter and a TIP licensed coach. She has long standing collaborations with various Italian cultural institutions in the field of intercultural education. She has various publications ranging across diverse subjects related to the Indian socio-cultural scenario.
Patrizia Magnante (Italy)
Since 2010 he has been President of the Italian Society of Sociology. Sociologist, social and market researcher, training and marketing expert. For about 20 years she has worked on social problems related to children and adolescents, drug addiction. She coordinated many humanitarian Projects in favor of developing countries (in particular the Central African Republic and Brazil). Since 2014 she is a member of the "Regional Council for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child". As senior researcher she has focused for years on methodology, research techniques, communication, health and wellness. For the Italian Society of Sociology deals with communication, team building and problem solving. She teaches at University of "Tor Vergata"
Linkedin: http://it.linkedin.com/pub/patrizia-magnante/38/8aa/242
Niccolò Rinaldi (Italy)
Linkedin: http://it.linkedin.com/pub/patrizia-magnante/38/8aa/242
Niccolò Rinaldi (Italy)
Nicholas Rinaldi has a long and rich experience in international contexts. He was responsible for the information at the UN in Afghanistan. He lived in Peshawar, Kabul and in the rest of the country. Afghanistan has been a school of life so important for his personal growth that he wrote some books about it. In 1991 he left the United Nations and he started working at the European Parliament, as political adviser. In 2000 he became one of the Secretaries General of the Parliament. In 2009 he was elected MEP. As a member of the Committee on International Trade (INTA), he manages a lot of dossiers on international trade. During the years he worked actively for many topics: foreign policy, international trade, environmental protection, civil rights, fair trade, collective memory, Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust ... Many its publications.
Ana Maria Mengue Esono (Equatorial Guinea)
Born and raised in Guinea, Ana Maria Mengue has focused for years on issues of children and mothers in need. She founded and directs the NGO Mbengono created to promote and coordinate humanitarian projects. With various activities and with the support of local institutions she deals with education of children, health, protection of women, poverty, AIDS
Claudia Gina Hassan (Italy)
Claudia Gina Hassan teaches sociology of communication and contemporary social theory at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Since 1994 he directs the University of Castel Sant'Angelo. E 'President of Europe Research. He has written Network and Democracy "and" Memory and the Shoah. A sociological perspective".
Born and raised in Guinea, Ana Maria Mengue has focused for years on issues of children and mothers in need. She founded and directs the NGO Mbengono created to promote and coordinate humanitarian projects. With various activities and with the support of local institutions she deals with education of children, health, protection of women, poverty, AIDS
Claudia Gina Hassan (Italy)
Claudia Gina Hassan teaches sociology of communication and contemporary social theory at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. Since 1994 he directs the University of Castel Sant'Angelo. E 'President of Europe Research. He has written Network and Democracy "and" Memory and the Shoah. A sociological perspective".
Gioa Di Cristofaro Longo (Italy)
Full Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Political Science, Sociology, Communication, University of Rome "La Sapienza". She founded and directs the Free University of Human Rights - LUNID. She is interested in issues related to cultural identity, interculture, migration, human rights, culture of peace.
Sonia Bernicchi (Italy)
Sonia Bernicchi works as Export Manager with a papermaking company that exports its products in 65 countries around the world. Her deep and longtime experience abroad makes an expert out of her in cultural mediation, cross-cultural management and intercultural communication. As a specialist in language teaching, she founded – and now directs – the French and Spanish Language Lab at Eraclito 2000. For the publisher Zona Franca (Lucca) she has written From Here to India, A Passage to China, Near East: Codes and Soul, Chile and One and Other (together with Diana Pardini). She is also a member of the Marisa Bellisario Foundation. A passionate traveler, she loves all the South of the world and blogs at soniabernicchi.wordpress.com
Stefania Del Bravo (Italy)
For the organization thanks to:
Mic Byrne (USA)
TCC Massachussetts Institute of Techology Boston
Richard F. Clancy (USA)
TCC Massachussetts Institute of Techology Boston
Richard F. Clancy (USA)
TCC Massachussetts Institute of Techology Boston
Ananya Bhattacharya (India)
Banglanatak dot com
Expert in human rights and communication.
Florencia Santucho (Argentina)
Agnieszka Bursztyka (Poland)
Florencia Santucho (Argentina)
Director Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC (Argentina)
Director The International Film Festival on Human Rights (Argentina)
Agnieszka Bursztyka (Poland)
Polish Association
Jama Mousse Jama (Somaliland)
President Red Sea Cultural Foundation
Arber Sinanaj (Albania)
Student Association Milosao
Gianni Lattanzio
Association Dialoghi
Silvia Guetta
University of Florence
Rossana Gravina
University of Florence
Vincenzo Bellino
OSIM Centre for International Studies on the Mediterranean
OSIM Centre for International Studies on the Mediterranean
Association Eraclito 2000
Maria Sole Sbrana
Organizing Commettee of the Festival Nazionale delle Culture
Alberto Giannetti
Representative of the State of Delaware in Italy
Scientific Commettee
Urmila
Chakraborty
Professor University of Milan
Founder and Director Englishour - Milan
Professor University of Milan
Founder and Director Englishour - Milan
Flavia
Cristaldi
Professor University La Sapienza Roma
Gioia Di Cristofaro Longo
Founder and Director University of Human Rights LUNID
Professor University La Sapienza Roma
Gioia Di Cristofaro Longo
Founder and Director University of Human Rights LUNID
Chiara Ferrero
President ISA International Studies Academy Milano
Serena Gianfaldoni
President Festival Nazionale delle Culture
Laboratory of Social Sciences University of Pisa
Silvia Guetta
Professor University of Florence
Ahmed Habouss
Founder and Director of Centre for International Studies on the Mediterranean
Claudia Hassan
Professor University Roma Tor Vergata
Jama Mousse Jama
Founder and President of Red Sea Cultural Foundation
Dorit Kedar
Founder and Director Centre Interreligious for the Peace Tel Aviv Israel
International Partners
Centre for Interreligious Peace Tel Aviv (Israel)
The Center of Inter-Religious Peace in Tel Aviv is a place functioning as a center of weekly encounters of students, who learn assiduously how to gradually decrease the gap between territorial static subjectivity and transient Reality. The center chooses to teach philosophies and beliefs which suggest the necessity to build an inner open minded temple in order to explore the Unknown. The Center is a place of recreation and meditation for students. It is also a place functioning as an animal shelter, helping stray sick animals to recover and live.
https://he-il.facebook.com/CenterIRPeace
ONG
Mbengono (Equatorial Guinea)
Red
Sea Cultural Foundation (Somaliland)
www.redsea-online.com
www.redsea-online.com
Banglanatak dot com is a social enterprise working across India with a mission to foster pro-poor growth using culture based approaches.
www.banglanatak.com
www.tcc.mit.edu
Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC (Argentina)
IMD DerHumALC sees its activities in the perspective of the defense and consolidation of freedom, democracy and human rights as universal values and foundation of social organization. Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC create a field of assembly, movement and distribution of audiovisual materials that promote human rights, defense of the Environment and the Right to Development.
http://www.imd.org.ar
The International Film Festival on Human Rights (DerHumALC) (Argentina)
The Human Rights International Film Festival’s aim is to present the best movies dealing with every social issue related to the human rights’ and environment’s defense from several and original points of view, promoting in this way a critic cinema that contributes to social change. www.imd.org.ar/festival
Whooping Gibbon Travel (Malaysia)
www.whoopinggibon.travel
Silverlake Photography (New York, Amsterdam, Roma)
www.silverlakephotography.com
Italian Partners
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Photo of Nicola Messina |
The exhibit was mainly realized by Italian institutions with the help of international partners:
Festival
Nazionale delle Culture
www.festivaldelleculture.blogspot.it
www.festivaldelleculture.blogspot.it
Laboratory
of Social Science University of Pisa
www.serraweb.unipi.it/dsslab
www.serraweb.unipi.it/dsslab
CAFRE University of Pisa
Interdepartmental Centre for the Upgrade, Training and Educational Research
www.cafre.unipi.it
Interdepartmental Centre for the Upgrade, Training and Educational Research
www.cafre.unipi.it
Italian
Society of Sociology (SOIS)
www.societaitalianasociologia.it
www.societaitalianasociologia.it
University
of Human Rights (LUNID) Libera Università dei Diritti Umani, Roma
www.lunid.it
www.lunid.it
CerRSE
Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata
www.cerse.uniroma2.it
www.cerse.uniroma2.it
Master "Teaching The Holocaust" University Roma Tre
www.uniroma3.it
Centre
for International Studies on the Mediterranean (OSIM)
www.OSIMlivorno.wordpress.com
www.OSIMlivorno.wordpress.com
International
Studies Academy (ISA), Milano
www.accademiaisa.it
www.accademiaisa.it
Association
Dialoghi, Roma
www.associazione-dialoghi.com
www.associazione-dialoghi.com
Eraclito 2000
Englishour
set up in 2002, provides corporate linguistic and cultural services and operates in the area of corporate training with special focus on language courses, Intercultural Skills and Cultural Awareness programmes.
Photographers
NICOLA MESSINA (Italy)
Nicola Messina, naturalist and explorer, after a scholarship at the italian Biophysics Institute of CNR, travelled around the world, from Europe to Central America, Africa and especially south-east Asia. In 2007 he travelled to the Malaysian Borneo where he lived for a long time after being fascinated by its rainforests. He worked on Mount Kinabalu and for other national parks, studying also many areas in Sarawak. At present he works between Italy and the Indo- Malaysian region.He has been engaged by the Indonesian government to lead a naturalistic expedition in the remote Maluku islands in 2015 based on his professionalism and travelling experience.He also organized some photo exhibitions about the forests of Borneo in some prestigious location.
"Humanity is what I search when I travel; it is what gives dignity to poor ones too; it is the treasure that permits to respect and be respected; it is the pass to men's heart, without any distinction of race and religion. I learned to be human during my travelling and to give humanity back, because humanity is something you can learn if you are open and ready to receive it in your heart". Nicola Messina
www.geographyca.com
MICHAL BACHULSKY (Poland)
www.bachulsky.com
BANGLANATAK REACHING OUT THE PEOPLE (India)
www.banglanatak.com
CARLO DELLI (Italy)
Carlo Delli is a italian photographer who did photographic reportages all over the world - mainly in Africa, Australia, Argentina, Venezuela, Madagascar, Sri-Lanka, the United States.
He is one of the artists of the Art Gallery 10.2! international research contemporary art in Milan directed by Maria Rosa Pividori www.diecipuntodue.it. He is the author of many famous photographic books
www.fotocreature.itwww.carlodelli.it
Greetings to you from my Tuscany, land of hospitality and tolerance, the first State where it has been abolished the death penalty in 1786. But today, I am sorry to see that in many parts of the world, which I photographed, men kill people, especially women, because of religion. Carlo Delli
SONIA BERNICCHI (Italy)
Sonia Bernicchi works as Export Manager with industria cartaria Pieretti, a Lucca-based papermaking company that exports its products in 65 countries around the world. Her deep and longtime experience abroad makes an expert out of her in cultural mediation, cross-cultural management and intercultural communication. As a specialist in language teaching, she founded – and now directs – the French and Spanish Language Lab at Eraclito 2000. For the publisher Zona Franca (Lucca) she has written From Here to India, A Passage to China, Near East: Codes and Soul, Chile and One and Other (together with Diana Pardini). She is also a member of the Marisa Bellisario Foundation.A passionate traveler, she loves all the South of the world and blogs at soniabernicchi.wordpress.com
www.spacciatoredisogni.it
MITTHU KHARMARKAR (India)
SENE DEMBA (Senegal)
LUCA POLICASTRI (Italy)
MASSIMO TONARELLI (Italy)
GABRIELE NOTARI (Italy)
RAFFAELLA D'AGATA (Italy)
MASSIMO TONARELLI (Italy)
MARCO SANTOCHI (Italy)
MASSIMO TONARELLI (Italy)
GABRIELE NOTARI (Italy)
RAFFAELLA D'AGATA (Italy)
MASSIMO TONARELLI (Italy)
MARCO SANTOCHI (Italy)
Greetings
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Photo from Banglanatak and Urmila Chakraborthy |
FROM DORIT KEDAR
Founder and Director of the Centre of Interreligious Peace, Tel Aviv
Professor Serena Gianfaldoni I congratulate you for the future exhibition in the MIT USA. I am extremely honoured and thrilled to form part of the exhibition in word and painted imagery. May our efforts to gradually erase territorial experiance of reality_ continue and find people who want to hear and listen, see and observe so as to live reality as it is.
May we help overcome illusive separation among the humans ,among the humans and all sentient beings, among humans and Nature. May we assist in appreciating the flux of the ever changing phenomena by the appreciaton of the uniqueness of every creature and creation. May we form part of all the humble messengers wishing to draw the viewers attention to the infinite aspects and angles of the existent. The path towards The Divine apparently is interlinked with the respect towards Everything and Everybody created.
FROM AHMED HABOUSS (MOROCCO)
Director Centre for International Studies on the Mediterranean.
The words are the fabric of our existence. The coexistence among different people is conditioned by cultural references. Empathize with another means exit from these references putting at risk our beliefs and fears. Dealing with diversity is a mental and psychological trauma. Get in the game, with respect to us and the other, it means to prospect a otherness built by inner exploration. I see in the face of the other, of the different, my fears, my hopes, and (why not?) the light of a chance to live together. Human rights can not be separated from the dignity of the person. This is the foundation of civil society.
FROM CLAUDIA GINA HASSAN
Professor of sociology
Let me express deep appreciation personally and on behalf of Cerse to Serena Gianfadoni for the passion and determination with which she has pursued and accomplished her project of transfering the exhibit from Pisa to Boston. The exhibit reveals the intrinsic richness inherent in every culture and testifies to the deep fecundity that every cultural exchange and crossbreeding releases, if we constantly remain aware of, and watchful about, every form of discrimination.
FROM NICOLA MESSINA (ITALY)
FROM SILVIA GUETTA (ITALY-ISRAEL)
Professor of Pedagogy. Expert of Peace Studies.
With these words I would like to sincerely thank and support Serena for her beautiful and inspiring action in favor of dialogue, encounter and knowledge among people of different places, cultures, religions, conditions and histories. Each message collected, selected and presented in the exhibition expresses, in a unique and original way, that every human being can communicate with the others. Our categorical imperative today is to put at the forefront of political and economic issues the gift of life, although in many places someone wants to do everything in the name of higher interests and unmanageable forces of violence . Today we are called to face the dual task: to make informed choices, with our heart and our mind, to live with respect for life and peace; and be firmly convinced that even in our small way we can all do something to develop and feel part of the culture of peace.Professor of Pedagogy. Expert of Peace Studies.
FROM CLAUDIA GINA HASSAN
Professor of sociology
Let me express deep appreciation personally and on behalf of Cerse to Serena Gianfadoni for the passion and determination with which she has pursued and accomplished her project of transfering the exhibit from Pisa to Boston. The exhibit reveals the intrinsic richness inherent in every culture and testifies to the deep fecundity that every cultural exchange and crossbreeding releases, if we constantly remain aware of, and watchful about, every form of discrimination.
Naturalist and Explorer
"Humanity is what I search when I travel; it is what gives dignity to poor ones too; it is the treasure that permits to respect and be respected; it is the pass to men's heart, without any distinction of race and religion. I learned to be human during my travelling and to give humanity back, because humanity is something you can learn if you are open and ready to receive it in your heart".
FROM JAYA MURTHY (INDIA)
Indian writer
From Upanishad. ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय । तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय । मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय । ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ Om Asato Maa Sad-Gamaya | Tamaso Maa Jyotir-Gamaya | Mrtyor-Maa Amrtam Gamaya | Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||
Meaning: Om, Lead us from Unreality (of Transitory Existence) to the Reality (of the Eternal Self), Lead us from the Darkness (of Ignorance) to the Light (of Spiritual Knowledge), Lead us from the Fear of Death to the Knowledge of Immortality. Om Peace, Peace, Peace.
FROM URMILA CHAKRABORTY (INDIA)
Professor, expert of Cultural Mediation
Dear Friends, I feel honored to greet you from thousands of miles away, infact from another continent Europe and I was born in still another one, Asia. However in today's globalised world we are all connected to each other and distances are covered by a mere click in spite of this we are still striving for global peace and understanding. Perhaps if all of us can remember that this world is OURS and WE must work together for a better world then and only then our world will be a better place.
FROM CARLO DELLI (ITALY)
Photographer
Greetings to you from my Tuscany, land of hospitality and tolerance, the first Statewhere it has been abolished the death penalty in 1786. But today, I am sorry to see that in many parts of the world, which I photographed, men kill people, especially women, because of religion.
Expert of Human Rights
No hay lados que defender,las palabras no sirven mas, sino la sola y clara Humanidad que se mata todos los dias, y que solo la Paz puede salvar
FROM FLAVIA CRISTALDI (ITALY)
Professor of Geography
Singoli profili, singoli racconti si snodano in questa mostra e dalle loro differenze emergono ai miei occhi di geografa quei tanti tratti comuni che rendono i singoli parte del Tutto. Ciascuno è figlio di Madre Terra, ciascuno ne calpesta un frammento, ne sogna un albero, ne mangia i frutti, ne usa per giocare a nascondino. Ciascuno può scegliere di condividere o di appropriarsi di ciò che offre la Terra, può rispettare o distruggere, può amare o restarne indifferente. La ricchezza di questa mostra, a mio avviso, risiede anche nelle sollecitazioni che offre ad un visitatore occidentale, spesso distratto da quella frenesia della vita che gli fa dimenticare il valore di quanto calpesta, il valore di quella Terra che per molti dei volti qui fotografati sembra ancora rappresentare un diritto alienato.
The book of Inter-religious Peace
During the inauguration will be presented "The Book of Inter-religious Peace" of Dorit Kedar, thinker, art critic, artist, writer, curator, lecturer, mystic, founder of The Center of Inter-Religious Peace in Tel Aviv . .
The project of the Book has commenced more than fifteen years ago.
It is relevant these days more than ever. We will attempt to describe the main ideas, which form the basis of the project, suggesting an alternative spirituality, the Inner Temple, for a new era. Few sources of inspiration: Kabbala, St Francis, Sufism, Taoism, Zen Buddhism, Toltec philosophy
Dorit Kedar |
May we help overcome illusive separation among the humans ,among the humans and all sentient beings, among humans and Nature. May we assist in appreciating the flux of the ever changing phenomena by the appreciaton of the uniqueness of every creature and creation. May we form part of all the humble messengers wishing to draw the viewers attention to the infinite aspects and angles of the existent. The path towards The Divine apparently is interlinked with the respect towards Everything and Everybody created. Dorit Kedar
Contacts
Serena
Gianfaldoni
gianfaldoni@centroculturae.it
gianfaldoniserena@gmail.com
President
Festival Nazionale delle Culture
Member
of Laboratory of Social Science University of Pisa
Member
of Italian Society of Sociology
Member
of boarding commettee of OSIM Centre for International Studies on the
Mediterranean
Founder of Rete Hospes, network for dialogue.
Quotes
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened”
John
F. Kennedy
“To
deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity”
Nelson
Mandela
“All
human beings, whatever their cultural or historical background, suffer when
they are intimidated, imprisoned or tortured . . . . We must, therefore, insist
on a global consensus, not only on the need to respect human rights worldwide, but
also on the definition of these rights . . . for it is the inherent nature of
all human beings to yearn for freedom, equality and dignity, and they have an
equal right to achieve that”.
Dalai
Lama
“Peace
can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and
where individuals and nations are free”
Dalai
Lama
“Whenever
there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must
prevail”.
Abraham
Lincoln
“Democracy
is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such
as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At
the same time, democracy also requires that the rights of political and other
minorities be safeguarded”.
Nelson
Mandela
“Let
it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness
made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize
encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have
been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to
the starless midnight of racism and war”.
Nelson
Mandela
“We
discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life
at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges,
the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth
giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more
atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear”.
Nelson
Mandela
“The
fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the
right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use
of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right
to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and
seventh, the right to education”.
Albert
Schweitzer
“Spread
love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your
children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor . . . . Let no one
ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression
of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in
your smile, kindness in your warm greeting”.
Mother
Teresa
“For
too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be
characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial of rights. What
is needed is a rights-based approach to development. Ensuring essential
political, economic and social entitlements and human dignity for all people
provides the rationale for policy. These are not a luxury affordable only to
the rich and powerful but an indispensable component of national development
efforts”.
Kofi
Annan
“Until
justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream”.
Martin
Luther King Jr.
“Freedom
means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who
struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of
purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory”.
Franklin
D. Roosevelt
“Everyone
has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom
to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”.
United
Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
“Sólo
con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia
y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano”.
Pablo
Neruda, Toward the Splendid City: Nobel Lecture
“[T]he
full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the
cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with
men in all fields".
[Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women(1979)]” United Nations
“Always
in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that
you had been cheated of something you had aright to”
George
Orwell
“First
of all, they came to take the gypsies
and
I was happy because they pilfered.
Then
they came to take the Jews and I said nothing,
because
they were unpleasant to me.
Then
they came to take homosexuals,
and
I was relieved, because they were annoying me.
Then
they came to take the Communists,
and
I said nothing because I was not a Communist.
One
day they came to take me,
and
there was nobody left to protest.
Bertold
Brecht, inspired by Emil Gustav Friedrich Martin Niemöller”
“All
human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed
with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of
brotherhood”.
United
Nations The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 1
“Two
principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will
ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the
other the divine right of kings”.
Abraham
Lincoln
“I
advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for
humanity”.
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“I
repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all”.
Victor
Hugo, Les Misérables
“Women
should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and
when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly”.
Theodore
Roosevelt
“It
was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor
did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It
was often their leaders who did so”.
Mr.
Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General
“Human
rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but
also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities”.
Pope
Francis
“I
do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion
of human rights”.
Aung
San Suu Kyi
“I
look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one
with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other
distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the
American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of
privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not
take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land
where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content
of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are
held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of
humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and
worth of the human personality”.
Martin
Luther King, Jr.
“In
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the
dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and as a consequence
there is proclaimed, as a fundamental right, the right of free movement in
search for truth and in the attainment of moral good and of justice, and also
the right to a dignified life”.
Pope
John XXIII, 1881-1963 Pacem in Terris, 1963
“The
right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That
should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize
their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole”.
Kofi
Annan, United Nations Secretary-General
“Freedom
means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who
struggle to gain those rights or keep them”.
Franklin
Delano Roosevelt, Former US President, Four Freedoms Speech, 6 January 1941
“Basically
we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we
recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their
dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted
throughout the world”.
Eleanor
Roosevelt, USA
“I
have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society... it is an ideal for
which I am prepared to die”.
Nelson
Mandela, President of South Africa, who was imprisoned from 1964-1990.
“We
discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all. We discovered that life
at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges,
the prides, the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also worth
giving. And we also discovered that there is something more hideous, more
atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear”.
Eve
Curie, French author, speaking to the American Booksellers Association, New
York, 9 April 1940
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