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How can our fellow citizens maintain hope in the future when newspapers, radio and television continue daily to pour out a torrent of information that I would describe as pessimistic at best and deadly at worst? Instead of the media of despair, let us prefer the media of hope and solutions. Like what “Reporters of hope, journalism that makes you want to act” does, let us demand that the national and regional media also become media that bring hope. It's urgent! Jean-Claude MAIRAL, Co-president of I-Dialogos / 08-05-2024

Throughout the world, the Media play an essential role, with a responsibility of which they are aware. But some should - particularly after this succession of coups in Africa - handle it with more dexterity, and sometimes even professionalism. In fact their role, with that of social networks perceived as dangerous competitors, is increasingly questioned. / Interview with Ms. Reine BENAO SAKANDE, co-founder of I-Dialogos, former Member of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso and the ECOWAS Parliament. Re-published on 21/0052024

The heads of state of the European Union have always been inclined to favor intergovernmental governance of the EU. They had thus gotten into the habit of choosing a President of the Commission, then a President of the European Council, who would not overshadow them. But in 1983 we quickly understood in Brussels that the new president would not be easy going by presenting himself straight away with a well-articulated strategy. / Article published in the new Italian magazine “LAB/Politiche e culture” partner of I-Dialogos. / Pierrick HAMON, Paris, January 21, 2024

Dialogue and convergence require a rapprochement and mutual recognition of the two unions: the European Union and the Euro-Asian Union, in order to identify possible divergences and convergences within the framework of bilateral discussions, on the one hand, and a constructive dialogue within the OSCE, on the other hand. To this should be added the desirable convergence of the States of the two unions for a Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok, a new pole of balance and wisdom in a world which greatly needs it. Let's dream about it, it's not forbidden! / Ariel FRANCAIS, Vienna (Austria) / published again on 03-23-2024

For Martin ZIGUELE, former Prime Minister of the Central African Republic, visiting Paris, it is precisely because Africa is sick of this absence of democracy that the fight for democracy must go beyond political forces. It must be the fight of every African, and the role of organized political and social forces is precisely to continue to raise awareness and mobilize populations. As for the OIF, it should evolve towards the Commonwealth model to meet the objectives of solidarity, democracy and development of its members. Interview. Nelle published on 05/12/2024...

We are witnessing a complete collapse of diplomacy between the United States and Russia, and an almost total collapse between the United States and China. Europe, which has become far too dependent on the United States, is simply following Washington's line. The absence of a real diplomatic strategy creates a dynamic of escalation that could lead to nuclear war. The priority for world peace is, however, to reestablish American diplomatic dialogue with Russia and China./ Jeffrey Sachs is a professor at Columbia University in Washington and Special Advisor to Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the UN / March 23 .2024..

Between dogmatic certainties, conspirators and skeptics of all kinds, many of us do not find ourselves there. We must however learn to orient ourselves in thought, a fortiori in these times of uncertainty. My conviction is that the great philosophers are, by their lives and their concepts, incomparable guides. They allow us to rethink secularism, democracy, feminism, ethics, freedom and, of course, happiness. From Plato to Einstein via Galileo, Descartes, Rousseau, Olympus... Introduction: Jean-Claude MAIRAL. 25.08.2023

Those responsible for the international forum “for a resilient and sovereign Africa in terms of water, energy and food security”, in Casablanca, paid particular tribute to Mr. Sene, as former executive secretary and president of the 9th World Forum of water, and more broadly in consideration of his commitment and in gratitude for all his efforts to make Africa shine. / The members of the I-Dialogos Steering Committee send their warmest congratulations to Abdoulaye, as well as to the organizers of the Africa 21 Forum and to the Moroccan authorities.

Europeans seem to be the only ones in the world to de facto reject their identity while other nations develop in reaction to Western universalism. The European Union as the “soft underbelly” of the West? : Is it still possible to qualify this undeniably pessimistic observation? / Jacques SOPPELSA, former president of the University of Paris I Panthéon SORBONNE and of the International Academy of Geopolitics, has just been appointed Dean of the ESMD (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers law). Interview with Pierrick Hamon / 03/05/2024...

This is the particularly topical theme of the symposium which took place in Marrakech from May 4 to 6 at the invitation of Professor Ali SEDJARI, president of CERIPP and co-president of I-DIALOGOS. It was a question of questioning the future of a democracy in crisis, as a political regime, and governance, as a science of management, in relation to the eruption of the digital revolution and that of AI. Is this an opportunity to build a more participatory, more inclusive democracy?

Serge Mathias TOMONDJI is a journalist and columnist. Of Beninese nationality, he has been based in Burkina Faso since 1993. Today, March 8, is International Women's Day, institutionalized by the United Nations since 1975 to question the situation of women in the world. A celebration this year under the theme “Investing in women: accelerating the pace”. - Ouagadougou, March 8, 2024 / The entire I-Dialogos team joins in this magnificent message to all women in the world.

For Dominique EDDE, It is time to get away from "us against them", to put an end to this war to the death for the exclusive possession of "the Holy Land", "the Land of the Bible". And to replace it with "them and us", to make Palestine a shared land where everyone can live in peace and security where the Israeli and Palestinian flags will fly side by side. To follow in the footsteps of Mandela who, despite the horrors and monstrosities of apartheid and the suffering of black peoples, wanted and knew how to build the Rainbow Nation of South Africa. / Jean-Claude MAIRAL / 11/19/2023