Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University (UKSW) in Warsaw hosted an international academic conference “Education for Peace. Between tradition, postmodernity, and new challenges’, which was co-financed by the National Agency for Academic Exchange as part of the ‘Welcome to Poland’ project.

“There is no freedom without peace. Man is free when there is peace. And, as John Paul II said, freedom is not given once and for all. It has to be gained anew all the time”, said Rector of UKSW Rev. Prof. Ryszard Czekalski. 

“The world will not build the future without looking into the past, without reflecting on the present. The responsibility for educating for peace rests also with university lecturers, as the university is not only a place of passing on knowledge, but also of educating”, added the Rector of UKSW.

Rev. Prof. Jarosław Michalski presented a model of educating for peace through religious education. He stressed that the decisive factors are above all “the ability and the will to change one’s way of thinking” in a world where violence reigns, and the absence of peace is something much more common and obvious than its reign.