Gabriele Nissim

Gariwo Chairman

Articles

Farnesina Garden of the Righteous and the diplomacy of Good

12 March 2024

The inauguration of Farnesina Garden of the Righteous is a fact of great moral significance for Italian foreign policy and for the image of Italy all around the world. Italy is the country of beauty and creativity, but also the country that promotes the beauty of good individuals. This is perhaps the best Made in Italy product. Righteous diplomats we remember today prove how Italian diplomacy has written some pages of extraordinary humanity throughout its history, which deserve to be remembered as an example of what I like to call the diplomacy of Good.

The Gariwo method

18 April 2023

It is important to reflect on the pedagogical and educational purpose of the Gardens of the Righteous for the moral growth of society. We may call it the Gariwo method: a new bottom-up experience aimed at making young people and citizens the protagonists of human and international affairs, in a framework where a passive spectator behaviour almost always prevails.

From the new Garden of the Righteous in Halabja, a message for the prevention of genocides

20 October 2022

With this Garden, you remember not only the moral figures of your country, but the Righteous around the world who fought against the genocides of yesterday and today. The Gardens of the Righteous are not just a symbolic place, but the cultural instrument that should serve all humanity to denounce and prevent all genocides.

A “good cop” to prevent genocide. We can help him/her with the Garden of the Righteous

10 October 2022

We envision these Gardens as a great agora, a civic temple dedicated to the value of the human person, where visitors are urged to become citizens who take responsibility, not only for their own country, also for the destiny of the entire world. They thus represent the place, as Liliana Segre suggests, that teaches us not to be indifferent. Unlike in the past, when passivity allowed for the worst crimes.