Si fa presto a dire pace

Introduces e moderates

Paolo Foradori, Università di Trento

Abstract

The difficult but not impossible path to peace

Recounting his first-hand involvement in mediation processes in conflict areas in Mozambique, the Horn of Africa and Nagorno-Karabakh (from the early 1980s to 2018), the author explains how peace is never the result of good preaching, but rather of the construction of a new context (made up of economic, cultural, generational and international elements) that allows the parties involved to never become, or to continue to be, different (even antagonistic), but to move from “criticism of weapons” to “weapons of criticism”. 
In short, from war to politics.

Author biography

Mario Raffaelli was a Member of Parliament for four terms and Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1991. Coordinator of mediators with the Community of Sant'Egidio for peace in Mozambique. President of the Peace Conference for Nagorno Karabakh. Special Envoy of the Italian government for Somalia. He was an expert for the G7 Presidency on the peace processes in the Horn of Africa. He was the EU High Representative's envoy in the second mediation in Mozambique. He is President of AMREF Italy and Deputy Chairman of the Board of AMREF International.