Through Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV opens an ethical and political reflection on artificial intelligence, human dignity and the future of our societies. The text resonates directly with the reflections developed by the Córdoba Forum on Convivence, dialogue and the new challenges facing the twenty-first century.
The return of El Niño and the acceleration of climate change place human convivence before a new historic test. Beyond the environmental crisis itself, the real challenge will be learning how to cooperate, manage collective vulnerabilities, and preserve social cohesion in a world undergoing profound transformation.
On the occasion of the 900th anniversary of Averroes’ birth, this text explores his reading of Plato and his reflection on justice, reason, and the common good. From the Córdoba of al-Andalus to today’s challenges, his thought continues to offer a living proposal for Convivence grounded in dialogue and balance among differences.
Córdoba’s intellectual tradition shows that reason, faith and culture can coexist without negating one another. Today, this legacy invites us to rethink Convivence as an active response to division and the fear of the other.
The II National Strategy for Territorial Equity and the Demographic Challenge provides a comprehensive framework to address territorial inequalities and demographic challenges, placing at its core equal opportunities, access to essential services and social cohesion. In this context, the II Córdoba Forum, World Convivence Forum, will be able to build on this strategy to promote more equitable, inclusive territories oriented towards a shared future.
The joint designation of Córdoba and Sidon as Mediterranean Capitals of Culture and Dialogue 2027 proposes a complementary reading of the Mediterranean: Córdoba as a space of intellectual translation and Sidon as a port city of exchange and mediation. Together, the two cities offer a fertile framework for thinking about and practicing Mediterranean dialogue today.
Foresight helps explore possible futures in order to guide more just, supportive, and sustainable decisions. Through risk analysis, systemic understanding, and the construction of shared visions, it strengthens Convivence and collective capacities for adaptation in the face of today’s major social, environmental, and cultural challenges.
Drawing on René Girard, Hubert Étienne reflects on the risks of technologies designed to capture and polarize human attention. In response, he advocates an ethics of attention capable of guiding artificial intelligence and social relations toward responsibility, limits, and care for others, in dialogue with the Andalusian tradition of convivence.
The history of the ITU is the story of human connection. From the telegraph to the digital era, it has fostered international cooperation, technical standardisation and global access to telecommunications. Today, it remains essential for connectivity, innovation and convivence in an increasingly interdependent world.
Zygmunt Bauman analysed the fragility of our “liquid modernity”, where uncertainty fuels anxiety and the temptation to exclude. In response, he advocated an ethic of “being together” grounded in accepting difference and taking responsibility for the Other, in resonance with the idea of Convivence.
