Climate, pandemic, Ukraine: impacts and perspectives on European resilience
From a theoretical point of view, European resilience means the Union's ability to “resist, adapt and recover quickly in the event of a [crisis] without compromising its long-term development”. From a practical and current point of view, it means ensuring the energy independence of the Union through an ecological transition.
Climate change and the costs of transition
Climate change and environmental degradation constitute a major global challenge that has a significant collective impact.
Democratic societies: systems of conflictual cooperation and interdependence
In the previous issue of “To Speak Peace”, all the articles clearly highlighted, starting from the war situation in Ukraine, different challenges. The perspective outlined here intends to take stock of the possibility of interactions between different, even opposing, social groups for a more solid construction of democratic life.
What ecological transition for tomorrow? Energy, climate, metals (Part 3)
To stem the ecological catastrophe, sobriety is essential. It is urgent that our politicians admit this and take control of it.
What ecological transition for tomorrow? Energy, climate, metals (Part 2)
The ecological transition is very dependent on metals but the supply risks not being able to meet the rapidly growing demand, among other limits linked to these resources.
What ecological transition for tomorrow? Energy, climate, metals (Part 1)
If the ecological transition is essential, certain key aspects such as economic growth or the limits to renewable energies seem too little thought through.
International solidarity put to the test by Covid-19
The spread of Covid-19 across the world has made it possible to understand the proximity of global interactions as well as the ineffectiveness of borders alone in being able to contain and stop the spread of a virus. The interconnection of parts of the world which seems to be necessary requires a global systemic revision.
Testify and inform: the challenge of images
The question of the representation of conflicts and extreme violence has raised a number of questions, starting with the trivialization of the view of this type of event. The images of the war in Ukraine that reach us daily today make us aware that it is necessary to educate our eyes, in order to rethink our ways of seeing.
Disinformation: a weapon of war, a danger to peace
In an increasingly connected world, information is a key element in confronting the adversaries of democracy. But what about misinformation?
International sanctions: democracy in disarray
With the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian threat forces the West to resort to international sanctions, generating economic dependence among peoples and offering a key to understanding the democratic discourse at odds with the ideal it promotes.
