Habent sua fata libelli - books have their fate. Books, as material objects, tell the story of their
owners. This saying should be extended to include electronic publications, especially those that are
not made available right away but have been stored on the editor hard drive.
Last year, when we were preparing to organise a debate entitled „World with (no) borders” we
invited its moderators, Professor Wojciech Szczerba and his daughter, Antonina, to prepare essays as
a form of introduction to the topics we wanted to address during the debate.
You could follow the debate live and a recording of it is available on Youtube:
Eventually the essays, which were previously received by participants of the debate, were never
published. Today we are correcting this mistake and making them available on our website: [LINK]
It is important, however, to point out one thing - the essays were written at the end of 2021, when
the situation in Europe and the world was far different from todays. It can therefore be said that they
come from a different time, before the war in Ukraine, when we saw the challenges that we face
differently.
We truly recommend reading the essays, even if they are from before 24 February 2022, the texts
deal with many important and still relevant topics that affect us on a daily basis.
How much the world has changed over the past year, what we have achieved and where we are still
failing, you can ask our authors in November during the second online debate entitled „World with
(no) boarders”. To participate in which you are cordially invited today.
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The publication was published as a part of the project „Laboratory of Dialogue and Reconciliation” carried out by the
Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland.
