Overcoming conflicts and the need for dialogue: the prospects of peace

Abstract

The new contemporary social, political and legal scenarios are characterized by unpredictable and epochal historical events, destined to generate radical changes and rapid transformations, with positive and negative aspects. The European space, through the enlargement processes, has had to take note of the importance of the differences between peoples, nations and states, which it has welcomed, making them its own and valid, transforming them into the complex of rights and obligations that bind the Member States of the European Union (in this sense the acquis communautaire has value). However, in light of the facts, these differences have often led to many problems in the life of the Union. These are differences in cultural, economic, social, legal and religious heritages, which specify the different paths taken over the course of history by individual national communities and which lead to obvious and consequential problems of social and interreligious cohabitation.