the ROME – “We cater to the young people of the world to unite to address the important challenges of humanity and become builders of their own lives and in the history of the new millennium”. Thus began the appeal of resilience and hope, launched Tuesday, June 5, at the headquarters of the Foreign Press in Rome, from the Nobel prize for Peace, the argentinian Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and the leading japanese buddhist Daisaku Ikeda, represented by his son, Hiromasa. An uninterrupted dialogue linked them for years.
a Good part of their shared thoughts are wrapped up in the book presented last year in Rome: “The power of hope – Reflections on peace and human rights in the third millennium”. They returned to the capital to consult with young people around the world, passing them the baton “to assume with responsibility the journey of life together to their peoples”. The announcement was made during the press conference and, yesterday, during the meeting at the Former Customs house which were attended by about one thousand young people from several associations, religious and lay people of the capital. “The threat of nuclear weapons, the increase of refugees, extreme weather events caused by global warming, the greed of the financial speculators who exacerbate the distance between rich and poor” – we read in the document – “represent the main problems related to the struggle unrestrained supremacy over the military, political and economic, that obscures our common home, our planet Earth.”
