Vatican City I was present yesterday at the Vatican when His Holiness, Pope Francis, closed the Fourth Annual Congress of Scholas Occurrentes —a project personally supported by the Pontiff and directed by José María del Corral and Enrique Palmeyro, the underlying mission of which is the achievement of world peace through education—with a worldwide call for “reconstruction of the educational pact.” At the closing ceremony of the Scholas Congress, I had the privilege of meeting Pope Francis and presenting him with a copy of my book, "El Crimen de la Guerra", soon to be published in English as "War: A Crime Against Humanity". Behind the Pope is Scholas Co-Director José María del Corral. The Pope posited that, for some time now, the educational pact that should exist between learning centers, students, nations, cultures and society as a whole “is broken...and badly broken, and it can’t be stuck back together.” He issued a challen...
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Author Roberto Vivo comments on wars past and present, on the world’s great peacemakers and on the pathway to global peace. His basic philosophy: In a world where 9 out of every 10 victims of armed conflict are civilians, war is no longer a viable political alternative. Indeed, it is the ultimate crime against humanity. If rising generations are to have a future, the key will lie in world peace. War is the pathway to oblivion.