The legacy of Aldo Moro’s foreign policy in the perspective of Manifesto for a theology from the Mediterranean (Marseille 21 September 2023) is the theme of a first seminar which (organised by Ionian Department in legal and economic systems of the Mediterranean society, environment, cultures, the Brindisi-Taranto Chamber of Commerce and the Culture Center G. Lazzati, with the involvement of local Morotei places: Archite High School and Convent of San Pasquale) will be held (from 9 am to 12 pm) on next May 9th, the date of the 46th anniversary of the statesman’s death, in the Conference Room (formerly a small church) of the Jonico UNIBA Department, Via Duomo 259.
Building on the recent Manifesto for a theology from the Mediterraneanan event of great geopolitical significance and involving commitment to the interdisciplinary revival of knowledge and knowledge, is to pose the challenge, as Pope Francis himself outlines it, for a new vision of the world, for a new community of destiny and for a new path , path of history, towards peace.
It is a conscious immersion in the wounds and anxieties of a place, the Mediterranean, the our sea, so that the shipwreck of men and civilizations is immediately transformed into a generative practice of possible new brotherhood.
Talking about the Mediterranean, especially in the tension and perspective of Manifest of Marseille (September 2023), is also meeting testimonies, charisms, prophecies of men and commitments that are perhaps too forgotten. The Mediterranean as new Lake Tiberias it was not just the dream and utopia of Giorgio La Pira. Returning to the Mediterranean also means clearing customs for a political figure still unknown to common opinion such as that of Aldo Moro.
Understanding its political vision, between moral tension and realism, and through it the complexity of international politics, and also feeling the urgency and accompaniment is transforming the Mediterranean from a tomb into womb of planetary humanism. TO intertwine the plot of the Manifesto with the attempted geopolitical reconstruction of Aldo Moro will be not only two experts, but above all two committed protagonists: Antonio Bergamo, well-known researcher of Mediterranean thought and active signatory of the Manifesto itself, as well as Gilberto Bonalumi, who has always been active in foreign policy government collaborator of Moro, Prime Minister (1963-1968; 1974-1976) and Foreign Minister (1969-1972; 197-1974).
A starting seminar for further, open insights and outcomes such as a scheduled international conference already scheduled for next September in the continuity of the scientific commitment of the Jonico Department itself today represented by professors Ivan Ingravallo, Pamela Martino, Paolo Stefanì and Stefano Vinci and that the Center of culture G. Lazzati puts it back on the agenda after the publication of the exhibition catalogue Taranto, a city dear to me, organized in 2016 on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Aldo Morol, edited by the Committee which was set up for the occasion by gathering the support of numerous institutions.
A great cultural challenge, of new generation that the Manifesto launches from the Mediterranean and which also arouses active citizenship in Taranto by recovering commitments from the past for an unprecedented but not without root future.
