Citizen actions - Justice & Peace Commission

Les Assemblées citoyennes peuvent-elles apporter un nouveau souffle à notre démocratie ?

Face au constat d’une abstention électorale grandissante en Europe, cet article présente les assemblées citoyennes en partant du cas belge.

Language: a tool for activism and preserving peace

This analysis explains how language can be an activist tool, which can be used to make certain social movements visible.

Local currencies as a lever for transition and a tool for citizen emancipation

This analysis highlights the origin of local currencies, their usefulness for the revitalization of local economic areas, and the prospects that we can see for the future.

School, a place where the power to act is built?

This analysis questions the capacity of school to allow young people to deploy their agency to face the multiple crises facing our society.

Compulsory education in the face of climate issues

Considering that what she learned at school was out of step with current issues, and in particular climate change, Greta Thunberg put her finger on a real problem: the role of school and its adaptation to the challenges in our time.

Be part of the solutions generation

Through this analysis, I wonder today what is the real power of decision and action of the young generation?

We demand a more just and humane migration policy

Between January and May 2022, 25 young volunteers participated in the “Young people and migration: from observation to action” project.

Conflict in Ukraine: how to position yourself for Peace, from Belgium?

The conflict in Ukraine has exploded at the “gates” of the European Union. This war reminds us of the importance of understanding the issues of peace from Belgium and of finding the right guidelines to position ourselves in the face of the consequences of the military invasion.

To live in “the world after”, we must “tear away the curtain of pre-interpretation”

For all those who want cultural democracy, each individual or each group is approached as being endowed with a culture, that is to say, among other things, with a system of perception and representation of the world which allows you to learn from your experience and, from there, to evolve your representations, to put your belongings to work, in short to produce yourself rather than reproduce. However, this approach is not automatically effective.