Invoking the “spirit of Helsinki” to solve conflicts – in reference to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in the Finnish capital in 1975 Helsinki Accords – Wikipedia – could sounds like refusing to face reality. But the contrary leads to nowhere. The more we continue down the path of armaments and spending on ever more technologically advanced weapons, the more we accumulate tragedies and avoidable mistakes. Are we inevitably rolling on an irreversible drift toward unpredictable consequences?
The Italian President Sergio Mattarella gave a remarkable speech to the Council of Europe in April 2022, proposing the need for a new conference on common security cooperation, similar to that of 1975.
The Vatican diplomacy, on multiple occasions, and recently Pope Leo himself, have also called for the spirit of a new Helsinki.
Our webinar on 28th of May at 18:30 CET (Central European Time) brought together voices from Marxist and Christian backgrounds, that have reached a common ground of unequivocal rejection of war and its legitimation – both in conscience and in shared actions.
See the webinar in the original languages, in English, German and Italian
