Democratic societies: systems of conflictual cooperation and interdependence

In the previous issue of “To Speak Peace”, all the articles clearly highlighted, starting from the war situation in Ukraine, different challenges. The perspective outlined here intends to take stock of the possibility of interactions between different, even opposing, social groups for a more solid construction of democratic life.

Testify and inform: the challenge of images

The question of the representation of conflicts and extreme violence has raised a number of questions, starting with the trivialization of the view of this type of event. The images of the war in Ukraine that reach us daily today make us aware that it is necessary to educate our eyes, in order to rethink our ways of seeing.

Training on memory work and reconciliation

The memory of a conflict, recent or not, is crucial to consider the possibility of reconciliation and to enable living together in a society, whether in the country(ies) concerned but also in Belgium where populations sometimes opposed in a conflict have migrated and come into contact with each other

Conflict in Ukraine: how to position yourself for Peace, from Belgium?

The conflict in Ukraine has exploded at the “gates” of the European Union. This war reminds us of the importance of understanding the issues of peace from Belgium and of finding the right guidelines to position ourselves in the face of the consequences of the military invasion.