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The 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted on Friday June 7, 2024, a resolution proposed by China to establish the International Day of Dialogue Among Civilizations. The resolution declares that all advances of civilizations are “the collective heritage of humanity”. It advocates respect for the diversity of civilizations and underlines “the crucial role of dialogue in maintaining world peace, promoting common development, improving human well-being and achieving collective progress. / in International Press Agency Pressenza / 06-14-2024.

Switzerland has just hosted the “International Conference for Peace in Ukraine” with the participation of 90 countries. The final resolution was signed by everyone with the notable exception of the countries of the “Global South” belonging to the BRICS: Brazil, Indonesia, India, South Africa… and, above all, in the absence of the main ones among them, the China and Russia. Paradoxically, doesn't this initiative risk dragging us a little further into the war by pushing the Russian president to his limits? In Herodotus review of June 19 -

“It seems essential to me to think of Francophonies in the plural. On the same territory, French-speaking realities diverge: on a planetary scale, there are multiple French-speaking languages ​​which should not be standardized or reduced, but rather linked. » / Interview with Haydée Silva, head of the language and literature teaching department of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico / Interview / May 24, 2024.

'LAB Politiche e Culture' is a new magazine created in Bologna, Italy, at the start of 2024, by Professor Giuseppe GILIBERTI. It will alternate articles, interviews and videos. The international editorial committee (in Bologna, Naples, Rome, Tunis, Montreuil, Vichy, etc.) will deal with local development policies as well as the environment, communication, intercultural relations, foreign policies, from a geopolitical perspective. around the Mediterranean. An approach specific to Italy and neighboring countries. /I-Dialogos participates in this initiative. / updated February 16, 2024

No less than eleven presidential elections appear on Africa's political agenda for this year 2024. Four of them have already been held and the meeting of Rwandans, on July 15, with the ballot boxes of their country, inaugurates the cycle for the second semester already well underway. The dance of the ballot boxes therefore continues on the continent, with multiple issues and various consequences./ The article by Serge Mathias TOMONDJI, in Ouagadougou, in the Burkinabe daily LIBRE INFO of July 13, 2024.

France's last military intervention dates from 2013, under a United Nations mandate, as part of Operation Sangaris. The objective is then to pacify the Central African Republic and allow the 2015-2016 general elections to run satisfactorily. But on the very day of the swearing-in of the new President, Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Minister of Defense, announced, suddenly and without anticipation, the departure of the Sangaris mission, a decision with heavy and serious consequences as Sangaris was unanimously appreciated. / The article by former Prime Minister Martin ZIGUELE, in the "Political and Parliamentary Review"/ on 05-06-2024 -

Jürgen Habermas and Edgar Morin warn of the proliferation, in the media and on social networks, of warmongering speeches opposed to any search for compromise, even diplomatic. How can we ignore the calls for dialogue and reason from our two greatest European philosophers? The press is, however, a fundamental pillar of any true democracy. "Journalistic information is too precious a good not to be confused with propaganda", was it counter-propaganda. / Pierrick HAMON is General Delegate of I-Dialogos

The world of information has been marked in recent years by upheavals linked to the digital revolution. Patrice CARDOT presents the results of the study he has just carried out on the issues and challenges posed to information and journalism in France, in the 21st century, with precise analyzes and proposals. Conducted in the form of an investigation carried out by an independent investigative journalist, this study is part of the context of the States General of Information launched in France on October 3, 2023 in order to lay the foundations of a model of media and digital space for generations to come, and which brought together professionals, researchers and citizens. March 20, 2024.

From this crisis new balances of power will emerge as well as new institutions, both of a “regional” (i.e. continental) and universal dimension. The hypothesis of a reissue of the American empire in the form of a strengthened NATO or an “alliance of democracies” seems plausible to me, as does the creation of a Sino-Russian bloc. / Giuseppe GILIBERTI is professor at the University of Urbino (Italy) and researcher at the Istituto di Studi Mediterranei (ISMED-CNR) in Naples./ updated on 05/22/2024

History is on the way and the right to self-determination of peoples is real. However, there is no magic recipe, the Overseas Territories find themselves today in a logic where local choices are forbidden to them, such as those of the Amazon Summit. What is their room for maneuver if they do not make themselves heard within the framework of the Republic? Currently, there are questions about French interests in the former African colonies. The answers, unsatisfactory, lead to a rejection of France in favor of other powers. / Aug 28, 2023

India has the constitutional framework as well as the natural, financial and human resources needed to achieve its own development. India holds a know-how that has proven itself by radiating throughout Asia, and now throughout the world. But this was abandoned when this immense country entered the liberal system. Has India then lost its "soul" and in a certain way its values? Yet it is these latter that seduce so many people in search of meaning, this "spirituality" that it would not have known how to benefit from itself? /Augustin Brutus Jaykumar, in Pondicherry on September 18, 2024

Interview with H0-SACK-WA/BADAMIE, first female Doctor of Letters from the Amerindian community of French GUYANA: “The path to linguistic dignity should go through a “New Francophonie” of linguistic creation and political cultural resurgence. This is why France should enter into discussions with the Overseas Territories and those involved in this heritage. It must rethink its Francophonie, to reestablish a real ancestral linguistic symbolism, as being the foundation of a new influence” / 02.20.2024.