PEACE IS POSSIBLE
AESI PRESIDENT 2025
AESI PRESIDENT URGENT
MESSAGE TO THE UNIVERSITIES
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It is urgent for AESI to focus on the university actor at this complex time internationally in order to promote true cultural diplomacy that enables people to engage in constructive dialogue for peace and the promotion of a culture of solidarity.
There is no need for false rhetoric or a purely economic and financial approach: we urgently need to redefine international relations through a correct interpretation of the rules that characterize them.
Therefore, I expect your university to take action that goes beyond the presentation of the activities carried out by your university, which are certainly important. We must shake people’s consciences so that we return, and return seriously, to respecting human beings and every individual in this world.
We needs true leadership and common foreign policy to foster peace and solidarity of the
whole world. We need to build together from these early moments a new international reality
of dialogue collaboration cooperation mutual understanding that fosters encounters between
peoples and prevents crises before they become a dramatic conflict.
Universities come out of their ivory towers and their internal career logics to be able instead to
serve the international community and make themselves useful to be able to foster new
generations in their training for diplomatic and international careers. We need a new vision of
“university cooperation” that is not only exchange and collaboration in teaching and research
but also, above all, action on the ground prevention and promotion of peace.
The real research laboratory of the university and civil society is the International community,
its own civil and social realities, the United Nations and the European Union, that both need a
strong renewal from the roots in terms of challenges and personal decisions in order to renew
these our international relations. We do not need bureaucrats or people who are dedicated to
personal career political games.
There is an urgent need to have new generations who devote their lives to caring for the needs
of the international community by addressing the new challenges aheadof us. Courage is
needed we need personality we need to think of the common good and to be able to pass on
the values and decisions to be able to achieve these daunting goals! Without proclamations
without scandal we must be there where people suffer division contrast conflict and know how
to bring people states peoples religions together in order to be able to promote peace. It is
increasingly urgent to train new diplomats and new academics as well as new politicians and
men of institutions who have it clear in their hearts and minds that there is an urgent need for
dialogue, understanding, and the training of people who are capable of analyzing situations
and at the same time acting accordingly with respect for the human person.
The latest events the new international realities of these days in 2025 remind us that it is not a
violent action in a geopolitical context armed with missiles and tanks that brings peace and
serenity to peoples.Either we need to have patience or we need to have the form of a dialogic
diplomacy ready to take concrete steps to reach an agreement, where everyone can be in a
comfortable situation. In this new world order, great freedom is needed.The freedom to
recognize the dignity of the human person both for large numbers, i.e., peoples and for each individual citizen.Each person is important and so is one’s life.
Prof. Massimo Maria Caneva
AESI PRESIDENT
ROME
Photo : Prof. Massimo Maria Caneva at the Greek Parliament
October 2025
