Peace, integration, awareness are the watchwords today, Wednesday 23 May, at MAXXI with an exceptional guest: Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee,Vice-President of Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. It will be her to participate in the third edition of the International Forgiveness Day (MAXXI Auditorium, 18.00 pm, free admission subject to availability, with the possibility of reserving the first 100 seats on http://bit.ly/GiornataPerdonoE
" International Forgiveness Day – explains a note from the Museum of XXI Century Arts – is an event promoted by My Life Design Foundation, international body active in the promotion of values and tools for the diffusion of the culture of peace, integration and awareness, with the aim of celebrating forgiveness as an indispensable tool for transformation of individual, collective and social relationships”.
Among the participants of the past editions: Don Luigi Ciotti, Gherardo Colombo, Giuseppe Di Taranto, Scarlett Lewis, Yolande Mukagasana, Terry Waite, Stefano Zamagni,
Introduced by Giovanna Melandri, President of the MAXXI Foundation, e Daniel Lumera, Director of My Life Design Foundation, Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee will be the protagonist of a conversation with his nephew Vidur Bharatram, director and documentary maker: a dialogue between generations on the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi's message of peace, non-violence and forgiveness, of extraordinary relevance and today more than ever an indispensable tool in peace processes. Tara is Vice President of Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust, the center founded in 1945 in the city of Indore by the Mahatma and named after his wife Kasturba, to help the poorest women and children by guaranteeing them health care, access to education and professional preparation. For years Tara has been the active interpreter of her paternal grandfather's message of non-violence and, aAlso on this occasion, he wants to spread his appeal: “The whole world is going through a terrible moment of violence, there is a continuous chain of revenge, violence and more revenge. Fear is therefore the result of all this. We must break this continuous chain of violence. Fear and love cannot coexist. We have to remove pollution from the world and violence from the human mind. "
In their introductory speech, Daniel Lumera e Giovanna Melandri they will discuss the theme of forgiveness as a universal heritage, as an attitude capable of facilitating empathy between subjects in conflict and allowing recognition of the other, liberation from suffering, overcoming identification with one's own reasons. We all need to forgive and be forgiven. Sometimes, forgiving is the only way out of situations of ancient hatred and violence. Forgiveness is indispensable for achieving and consolidating peace.
Among the guests too Felipe Camargo, of Colombian origin, new Representative of the Regional Office for Southern Europe of theUNHCR, who began his career in the field of humanitarian, development and protection in 1991 on five continents. Among the participants of the past editions: Don Luigi Ciotti, Gherardo Colombo, Giuseppe Di Taranto, Scarlett Lewis, Yolande Mukagasana, Terry Waite, Stefano Zamagni,
