Abstract

Organized under the aegis of Dialogo, the international symposium Inter-religious Dialogue in a World full of Conflicts and Violence, occasions discussions and presentations related to the ambivalent dialogue feature of the religions, which is, on the one hand, the aggressiveness/violence and, on the other hand, the moral/spiritual values[ ]. Difficult questions were related to the mechanisms that trigger the aggressiveness and the violence of religions and to the possibility of the institutionalized religions to bring to date their ontological and social vocation of absorbing the violence. These are also the main themes we are addressing in our paper, starting from 1. The topicality and the necessity of the inter-religious dialogue; 2. A possible answer to the problem of the origins of conflict and violence and their diagnosis, from a Christian ontological perspective; 3. The role of the Person, as the image and likeness to God, in the mediation of conflicts and violence worldwide.