With condolences we give a final farewell to Professor Johan Galtung who passed away on February 17th at the age of 93 after an entire life dedicated to peace studies and spent on conflict mediation practice.
Thank you for your precious teachings, we will try to treasure them in these difficult times.
For 30 years, the volunteers of Operazione Colomba and the White Helmets have been experiencing direct sharing and have been promoting nonviolent actions to support the victims of wars and structural violence. We have learnt to look at war from the point of view of those who suffer it and we have understood that the civilian population always suffers the greatest consequences.
The Association “Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII” has joined Pope Francis' request to pray for Peace and is asking insistently for the cessation of hostilities and for a truce in the fighting. The Association has also sent a delegation of three members to Ukraine in order to monitor the situation and understand how to be close to the civilian population, which kind of nonviolent intervention to enact, and how to welcome the Ukrainian population in Italy.
OPERAZIONE COLOMBA
