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The object of COM NUOVI TEMPI cooperative society consists of the following activities: publishing, sale, dissemination of cultural works, books and periodicals, and the promotion of congresses, conferences, seminars (in Italy and abroad). These activities are also done through the magazine Confronti (which means “dialogue”), an interfaith and intercultural magazine, whose mission statement is to promote dialogue among the communities of faith in order to produce common actions for peace, justice and the integrity of creation.
COM NUOVI TEMPI through Confronti magazine developed during the years project such as “Semi di Pace” (Seeds of Peace) and “Fiori di Pace” (Flowers of Peace”) for dialogue in Middle East, involving youth and adults from Israel and Palestinian territories in order to give to Italian public the opportunity to know the situation in Middle East from the voice of people that struggles for reconciliation and a just peace. Confronti organize many cultural events, seminars and congresses in order to offer a space for reflection, testimony and debate, an alternative to the typically offered by mainstream media about interfaith and intercultural issues. One of this congress was “Islam in Italy between fundamentalism and Islamophobia” on October 2011, in cooperation with the Italian press national federation (FNSI). Furthermore, during the last years, Confronti organized several itinerant seminars in Israel and Palestinian territories, Russia, Ethiopia, Iran, Bosnia Herzegovina, India, Lebanon, etc.
Developing international projects on the subjects suggested by ALF and disseminating through the media (such as “Confronti” magazine) such of ideas and projects.
Joining the ALF network is a unique opportunity to meet people and organizations that work in different ways in the field cross-cultural dialogue, democracy building and education to pluralism and coexistence. In a globalised world, affected by an impressive economical crisis is now, more than ever, important to share opinions, case studies, in order to find a new way to build on solid bases the future society.