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My KAPUSCINSKI
Tonight I’d like to talk about the overwhelming speech of Mr. RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI, one of the most interesting reporters, gave at the aula magna of the Free University of Bolzano. First of all some remarks about the title, my KAPUSCINSKI: The implications of the reporter’s thought and the broad consequence radius of his arguments cannot be summarized by a profane like me in this field, so I decided to select some features of his speech, that impressed me extraordinarily perhaps because of their logic linearity (a posteriori for the listener obviously). This reduction to the essence is possible in my mind if you have tree basic attitudes: cultivating an immense interest in acquiring knowledge from carefully filtered sources, travelling and immerging oneself in other cultures, active listening to other people sharing their fears and concerns. RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI has these talents, recognized the importance of having them and surely experimented a life long in order to refine these skills. In fact as an answer to the question How to make information, he suggested to the upcoming reporters first of all to be men of knowledge, either because the readers or listeners a special specific field related knowledge or because we are living in a world of abundant knowledge so we need to filter efficiently the relevant one. He underlined the crucial importance of travelling as a mean of understanding and put a lot of emphasis on a particular source of knowledge: the others. Only a respectful approach permits to transform this knowledge in a real surplus. KAPUSCINSKI didn’t stop here; he went beyond recognizing that there is a need of an internal and an external imagination. This second type of imagination can be provided by the others, but the reporter has to be able to facilitate this generation process by displaying an approach of empathy when interviewing people or simply when living with other people around the world. But also this further step is not enough. In fact, KAPUSCINSKI, as a man of wisdom, tells us that these abilities represent a necessary but not sufficient condition to interact with other people that have their own identity, their own level of empathy and their own cultural background. For several reasons some cultures are nearly impossible to penetrate. There can be a lot of barriers that range from physical ones (walls built in order to separate), mentality related barriers strengthened by the way of writing (symbolisms) and language. KAPUSCINSKI does not restrict the analysis to a momentary view of the situation, but extends it to dynamic interpretation of culture; there can be periods of stagnancy but also periods of rapid changes. We are living in such a period, he underlines more than one time. There are several signals in this direction: first of all the movement of human mankind in these post cold war times, secondly the interaction with the diversity in a multiple direction that carries novelty but also uncertainty, because of upcoming friction due to the legitimate dreams and the requests of a great part of migrating people and because of the grooving divisions between rich and poor, people with and without a vision of the future. Are we able to continuously reorganize society? Are we prepared to such a high scale of interaction? Can we cope with our innate mistrust and can we resist to the increasing pressure and stress? These are some clear questions that Mr. KAPUSCINSKI, a master of diplomacy, didn’t answer directly, but he provides a set of instruments and human values and gave lot indications how to use these instruments through his own half a century long activity full of passion in many parts of the world. Bruno Mazzorana
The ability of leaving behind the implicit presupposes
Sorry, today the title is very long, but it reflects the amount of information I' ve got in the first weekends of the master course for conflict mediators and peace operators. How to summarize shortly the essence of the new skills a mediator should have in conflict situations. In a nutshell, from my point of view, she or he should be able to be a sailor in an environment of colliding waves. The waves represent a similitude of each conflict party that moves toward the other with a baggage of prejudices and being implicitly a prisoner of the own background. The wave celerity and its inertial movement represent from my point of view the missing ability of exploring the whole spectrum of possibilities the respectful interaction between the parties could offer. So staying right in the middle what's advisable to do. At the time I can provide only a few impressions I got and remember that I'm far away of being an expert in this field. First of all I came to the interim conclusion that the first step consists in leading the parties to speak the same language (knowing about the meaning words, habits and even the wrongly supposed insignificant details), because otherwise the communication contains a lot of edges that could cause deviations from the main objectives. This is a basic step to smooth rigidity. Exploring the conflict situation, so a certain amount of hypothetical thinking is also needed in order to wide up a little bit the doors and let some creativity enter. Without creativity the crucial changes of paradigm cannot be achieved. The similitude of the sailor (if you prefer a surfer fits well too) suggests that it's essential to be equidistant, that means being aware not to be drifted away by one wave. Obviously what I wrote in these few lines opens only a small window on the contents we've spoken about. Dealing with complexity is not an easy task. It's enough to look for all possible meanings of the word peace and to see how these meanings changed in history. Bruno Mazzorana
Master course for conflict mediators and peace operators
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questions to site-visitors
Dear bumerang-bloggers and visitors!
What do you miss on our page? What is terrible, what is succeeded? What is there which you don't understand...And which kind of reporting do you prefer: interviews, peoples' diaries, short reportages, etc. - is there too much text material, what about the photos?
Well, we need a little reaction from our readers in order to improve further on.
Hoping for answers - always yours, christine
OFFICIALLY
Officially, we were born on Wensday, September 27. We had our public presentation here in Bolzano with music, a rich buffet and of course friends. And people I' ve never met before. Honestly we were so stressed because every event, even if it is not so big, require a lot of things to do. But finally I had fun and many persons seemed to be interested to our work.
That day we were promoting migration, a section of the website that deals about, as the name itself say, the "new citizens", people from outside now in town to live here a period or maybe all their life. Integration it' s very hard to get, but to know each other is to move forward to mutual comprehension.
