Ezio Mauro: “Invoking peace is politically insufficient”

“Invoking peace is morally indispensable, but politically insufficient. We all want peace, of course: but there are precise reasons if this peace has been violated and today we are dealing with war. Not investigating them, not recognizing them and not evaluating them is to fail. to a duty “. It is a passage from the editorial ‘Why it is not enough to say peace’ that Ezio Mauro signed in Repubblica in relation to the war between Russia and Ukraine. “Too often we Westerners have saved our souls by asking for peace and leaving the bodies of others at the mercy of those who have chosen war, precisely because we have not understood that something more is needed besides ethical impetus, the rejection of barbarism and testimony of fraternity “, Mauro writes.” Because the only way we have to build peace is to reject the reasons for the conflict: to go beyond the rejection of the war itself, enter into the merits of the conflict, identify its causes and motivations and to draw a judgment and a choice of field, with the consequent behaviors. Only when we take responsibility for a judgment have we done something for peace, concretely “, he adds.