VILLA MADAMA ISTITUTO DIPLOMATICO SEMINARIO 24 GIUGNO 2025
AUDIENCE TO MEMBERS OF THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS ACCREDITED TO THE HOLY SEE AUDIENCE OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV
“UNIVERSITY, THE NEW WAY OF PEACE”
Prof. Masimo Maria Caneva – Coordinator of World Rectors Conference
JUBILEE 2025 ROME
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 the international
community its own military civil social realities of the United Nations of the European Union that
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 ahead
of 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 January 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.
The relationships there are between people must have those who listen to them and who manage
the common good a great capacity to understand and foster dialogue between peoples and people.
To claim all this is to respect the dignity of the human person, men and women who need to live on
this planet.
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VIDEO: Jubilee 2025 Rome Interna onal Seminar for Peace
