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Newsletter Editorial 22-2026
The United World Week 2026 Is Here: Welcome To This Great Global Movement
Each year, the arrival of the United World Week marks a special moment for the United World Project. This global initiative, which transcends continents, walls and borders, is an act of resistance and defiance against conflict and division, against the deep rifts that plague our world.
It seeks to respond to the pain that pierces people and nations: it does not silence it, but nurtures the hope of doing more, of continuing to believe that peace and unity are goals within reach.
For this reason, the United World Project promotes it together with the Focolare Movement and the Youth for a United World (Y4UW) and through the UWW (United World Week) they support people around the world who organize events and initiatives aimed at fostering dialogue, unity and peace.
We describe the United World Week (from the 1st to 7th of May) in an article entitled United World Week 2026: the world mobilizes for a more just and united society. It explains how the week is organized, the initiatives and events it will offer, and the commitment of those who take part to bear witness that a united world is possible and to inspire others to do the same. It also highlights this year’s theme, #ChooseToDialogue, inviting us to rediscover dialogue as a concrete path toward peace.
In a second article, we explore why dialogue was chosen as the theme for the United World Week 2026: #ChooseToDialogue. It is a global call for courage: to choose encounter over exclusion, listening over judgment, and unity over indifference.
Margaret Karram and Roberto Almada, President and Co-President of the Focolare Movement, send us their greetings from Italy and share what “dialogue” means to them and how we can approach it in order to use it as an effective tool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU8foqjSp5E
To engage in dialogue in a concrete and constructive way, we must first understand what dialogue truly is. Journalist Roberto Catalano, a professor at Sophia University Institute in Loppiano and a leading expert in interreligious dialogue, helps us do just that. We asked him to write an article on the subject, and he did so brilliantly: What is dialogue and why is it essential for building the world we deserve.
In deep harmony with the United World Week, Run4Unity has been taking place for over 20 years: an extraordinary run that unites the world in an embrace of peace, connecting distant time zones with the shared goal of peace and unity achieved through sports.
We conclude this April newsletter, dedicated to the United World Week and the theme of dialogue, with an article entitled Youth for Peace: Three intercultural and interreligious projects between Europe and Brazil. It also explores the theme of dialogue from the youth’s perspective, narrating three inspiring stories—three projects that, like the United World Week itself, nurture hope and courage.