An international conference marked both the 20th anniversary of the death of Joseph Wresinski (1917-1988) and the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
How relevant is Joseph Wresinski’s thinking?
The International Movement ATD Fourth World has organized, in close partnership with Sciences Po, a conference on the relevance of the thinking of its founder, Father Joseph Wresinski, and of the project that he promoted for society.
The conference took place at Sciences Po, in the centre of Paris
Objectives of the conference
to allow academics and other thinkers to discuss different aspects of Joseph Wresinski’s ideas and actions and to disseminate the results of this process
to open a dialogue between researchers and the people involved in the fight against chronic poverty: people living in poverty and those committed alongside them, public and private leaders...
to highlight the modernity of Joseph Wresinski’s thoughts and practices and the relevance of the “culture of refusing extreme poverty” which he strove to advocate
“The change required is to fully assume the dignity of the poor, to take their thinking as a reference point for all policies, and their hopes as a reference point for all action.” Joseph Wresinski
