Global Dialogues

The sense that things are spinning out of control—that democracy and solidarity are failing as wars proliferate while the climate crisis and the artificial intelligence revolution take over—has generated a widespread feeling of powerlessness. Writers and thinkers who insist on alternatives to our current path need to find new ways to work, think, and be together. How can communities that are both international and inclusive of younger generations be created and sustained?

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 and students interested in contributing should send their 300-500 word essays to globaldialogues@georgetown.edu by October 15.