02/07/2026 09:00 - 18:20

HALL: Pola - A206a

Contact: Palazzo Tsai P.

Chair: Da Silva Carneiro M., Palazzo Tsai P., Tsai P.

Religious traditions have long been engaged in the pursuit of justice and in political decision-making since antiquity. Such worldly engagement is not unusual in traditions that developed in what are conventionally coined as "West" and "East". From a non-Eurocentric perspective, since Sakyamuni, the historical Buddha, Buddhist traditions have articulated teachings and practices aimed at the reduction of suffering, interdependence, and the ethical transformation of individual and collective relations. Throughout their history, diverse Buddhist traditions have interpreted these principles across varying social contexts, offering conceptual and practical resources for reflecting on inequality, collective responsibility, and social justice. Similarly, traditions such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, African religions, and Indigenous cosmologies articulate normative visions of justice grounded in their ethical, ritual, and communal foundations. This panel proposes an interfaith and interdisciplinary dialogue on how religious and philosophical traditions respond, historically and in the present, to social, economic, and environmental injustices. In a global context marked by widening inequalities between the Global North and South, the rise of far-right ideologies, and new configurations of religious fundamentalism, the panel seeks to examine the contributions of various traditions towards lasting peace and conflict resolution.
The panel intends to discuss the possibilities in which social injustice can be tackled through an inter-relational and interfaith dialogue by different traditions, including their oral transmissions, texts, and practices, that are crucial for a critical dialogue, mutual learning, and transformative action - and thus, engaging in the world.