Our Principles

At the A World of Neighbours gathering “Keeping our humanity – for we were strangers once” in Malmö, 2020 the participants agreed on a set of principles. The network build on these principles in further collaboration towards a convivial society.

Three guiding documents are established to guide our work and conversations

Creating Brave Spaces

Guidelines

The place of religion within A World of Neighbours

EQUALITY
We create a society which gives us, as groups and individuals, equal opportunities to self-development, and decision making. By ensuring this, we create a contract based on trust that allows us to interact with each other.

HUMAN RIGHTS
As humans we are equal and responsible for one-another and for our environment. We believe all people should have access to resources and equal opportunities. We believe in freedom of movement. We will strive to create spaces for young people to express themselves and define/determine their future.

FREEDOM
We believe in freedom from prejudice and excluding ideologies. We believe in freedom for a liveable present and open future.

JUSTICE
In pursuit of justice, we actively:

  • embrace relationships with each other, recognizing the dignity and rights of all
  • work towards ecological, economic, social and spiritual sustainability
  • work for the flourishing of all, including non-human creation, for the common good.

RESPECT
We are all neighbours! We are open to being mutually inspired and enriched and transformed recognising each other’s vulnerability as a strength, through our different traditions we are committed to the practice of hospitality on a journey from mere coexistence to “convivenz”.

SOLIDARITY
We wholeheartedly will choose to stand with others.

DIGNITY
We believe that dignity is inherent to every human being and we commit to promoting this in all spheres.

REALISTIC VISION
We believe in reducing the gap between public and private actors, and for civil society to be more pragmatic and the public sector to include more humanitarian perspectives and create multiple strategies on multiple levels.

People sitting around tables discussing.
Photo: Magdalena Wernefeldt