GGD Forum

This forum is a space for shared reflection around the key themes of the Georgetown Global Dialogues. Georgetown faculty and students interested in contributing should contact globaldialogues@georgetown.edu.

Conversations

Fraternity and Solidarity

Calling Out Cruelty

Confronting Powerlessness

Can We Resist the Appeal of Technological Utopias?

How Can We (Re)imagine Human Fraternity?

Where Is Moral Authority in Today’s World?

Towards a Cosmopolitanism of Repair

The Specter of Plunder Neoliberalism

Our New, Non-Polar World

Cracks in Concrete

Against All Odds

Degrowth as the Imperative in the Age of the Polycrisis

August 31, 2025

Fraternity and Solidarity Blog Post

In his 2020 encyclical Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis made the case for human fraternity and even for "political love"—a radically counter-cultural idea. Can we bring together religious thinking about fraternity and the more secular discourse of solidarity to make the case for the transformational possibilities of love in politics?

Georgetown faculty interested in contributing should send their 300-500 word essays to globaldialogues@georgetown.edu by September 17.

Students also have the option of submitting via the Georgetown Global Dialogues Student Essay Contest (Deadline: September 12).

August 30, 2025

Calling Out Cruelty Blog Post

The adoration of brute force and exercise of crude power have become hallmarks of governance in both democratic and autocratic settings. A hyper-masculine culture invested in spectacular displays of strength threatens social progress and peace everywhere. What are the insidious ways in which our tolerance for cruelty and Social-Darwinist thinking has increased, and what can we do to foster alternative values such as love and compassion?