Writings
People’s Initiatives in Banglades hand Insights for Poverty and Development Discourse
Tribute to Wresinski. A written contribution to the international colloquium “Exclusion, a Challenge to Democracy. How relevant is Joseph Wresinski’s (…) Read more
The Fourth World and Non-Violence
Translation of “Quart Monde et non-violence”
Public lecture given by Fr. Joseph Wresinski on August 31st 1984, during the tenth session (…) Read more
A Human Rights Conceptualisation of Poverty
One of Joseph Wresinski’s most important legacies is, I believe, the growing influence of what I call a human rights (…) Read more
The Violence Done To The Poor
This text, published in 1968 in the Revue Igloos/Le Quart Monde, was written in the context of the often violent (…) Read more
Why Choose Poverty?
How do we justify volunteers’ poverty? In our Western civilization, poverty has not been valued as something good in and (…) Read more
The Thinking of The Poor in a Knowledge that Leads to Combat
In December 1980 Joseph Wresinski brought together an international committee of specialists at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The text (…) Read more
The Family – A Place To Live The Gospel
Speech written by Joseph Wresinski for the Fifth Meeting Day of ANPAP (the Association des Parents, Anciens et Amis du (…) Read more
A community of shared destiny.
Today it is popular to make fun of or to condemn the forms that caring and help took on over (…) Read more
Poverty and means of communication.
Their situation of poverty closes all means of communication to the poor
Why do the poor remain so little known? (…) Read more