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#ChooseToDialogue: The global invitation for United World Week 2026
United World Project launches #ChooseToDialogue, a global invitation as part of United World Week 2026. A proposal to build spaces for encounter and share stories of impact through a powerful and necessary tool: dialogue.
United World Week 2026 is underway!
Every year, from May 1st to 7th, the United World Project support, together with the Focolare Movement and Youth for a United World (Y4UW), the United World Week, a global action where many people promote events and initiatives worldwide to foster dialogue, unity, and peace. Across continents, committed individuals, organizations, and institutions come together to experience and witness that a united world is possible, and to inspire others to do so.
This year holds special significance as it marks 60 years since Chiara Lubich, founder of Focolare Movement, opened a new path for youth, adolescents, and children — the New Generations — calling them to make fraternity a concrete commitment to the world. Today, they continue to be protagonists of United World Week.
In 2026 we choose to focus on the choice of dialogue takes concrete form each day in different spheres of social life — from culture to economics, from ecology to peacebuilding.
For this reason, this edition carries a powerful and timely theme: #ChooseToDialogue.
Why #ChooseToDialogue?
Even in times when divides seem to be growing, and we are becoming increasingly distant from one another, we can come together around a shared mission: always choosing the path of dialogue.
Every generation, culture, and community has its own stories of listening, courage, and the search for understanding.
#ChooseToDialogue is a global call for that week. It is a call to choose togetherness instead of exclusion, listening instead of judgement, and unity instead of indifference.
It invites us all to rediscover a power we already have: the capacity to come together, despite personal opinions; to listen openly; and to build bridges that lead to peace and universal fraternity.
We invite you to join United World Week by organising initiatives along the week that, in every situation, we can choose to listen to and engage in dialogue. Dialogue is not a weakness, but rather an act of strength and love that builds bridges where walls once stood.
#ChooseToDialogue by United World Week 2026
The Mission
‘To inspire, welcome, and bring together individuals and entire communities who are making a conscious and daily choice to engage in dialogue, in order to advocate for a more united, brotherly, and equal world.’
What is specific for this 2026 edition?
We encourage to organise as usual events and initiatives around the globe to spread fraternity, with a special focus on:
- Providing the right tools to be able to choose to engage in constructive, trained, and informed dialogue.
- Creating spaces for dialogue at the local level around the world, and providing the right tools and support to local people and communities wanting to take part through United World Communities.
- Collecting and sharing the stories of dialogue already taking place around the world – through the United World Project platform and its partners – to highlight the transformative impact of dialogue, therefore inspiring others to act courageously in the same spirit.
How to take part in the UWW 2026?
It is very simple! Go to the official section of the United World Week 2026 to find out how you can:
- Train people to become champions of dialogue within their local contexts in a constructive, trained, and informed way through workshops, information and training sessions, actions, reflections…
- Join one of the many dialogue-centred United World Communities – which are already active in eight different ways, and all designed to foster fraternity – or apply to add your own group.
- Organise or attend the events taking place around the world during United World Week 2026.
- Share your stories of dialogue in action and share them through the United World Project platform.
Who Can Join?
Individuals, groups, or associations who:
- live and work specifically for universal fraternity
- belong to any age group
- belong to different cultures, religions, or ideologies.
Contacts
Web: www.unitedworldproject.org/contact-us
Instagram: @unitedworldproject
Facebook: United World Project
E-mail: info@unitedworldproject.org