School of Political Science

Edited by Pino Pisicchio, Professor of Comparative Public Law at UNINT

Human, yet not so human. The fall of rights and the balance of peace in the global world.

A recent Amnesty International report highlighted the current decline in the cornerstones of humanitarian rights, which represented not only the fundamental principles of supranational bodies like the UN, but also the foundations on which some European democratic constitutions were built. 
That framework of new awareness, which, despite its ups and downs, has sustained the new civilization of peace after the disasters of the Second World War, is today challenged by the repeated violations of fundamental rights, the overall weakening of supranational institutions, calling into question the very foundation of international law, and a deterioration in multilateral cooperation. This regressive context also sees the weakening of certain individual and social rights that have formed the cornerstones of democratic civilization, such as the right to privacy, health, and dignity in old age.
Within the overall geopolitical, legal, economic, and social framework that reverberates from the global level to the national level, every phenomenon is undergoing an unprecedented acceleration, due to the technological evolution ushered in by digital technology and moving toward the new horizons of AI, which seem to be depriving us of the capacity for "vision" in favor of asserting the hegemony of the "immediate." Even the semantics of politics and diplomacy seem to suffer from the crisis of meaning gripping the new era, stripping away depth and meditative possibilities in favor of a communication that is overflowing with conflict and disinclined to moderation.
 
The cycle of the School of Politics of the new academic year 2025/2026 which will have the title "Human, yet not so human. The fall of rights and the balance of peace in the global world.", aims to offer the opportunity to delve deeper into the issues that form the sad backdrop to our new daily lives, tormented by new hybrid wars and the denial of essential human rights.
 
As in previous editions, the School will invite key figures from the highest levels of institutions, politics, diplomacy, information, and academia to engage with students, starting in late autumn 2025.
 
The sessions will usually be held on Thursdays from 14:00 PM to 16:00 PM.

Programme

The inauguration of the new edition of the School of Political Sciences will be held on 27 November 2025 with guest Gabriel Fava, President of INPS.
A social right in danger? Social security, between reality and fake news.

Guests of the 2025/2026 edition:

  • Hon. Amb. Bruno Archi, Permanent Representative of Italy to the UN and Special Envoy of the Italian Government to Gaza.
    Eighty years of the UN.
  • We. Luigi Di Maio, EU Special Representative for the Gulf Region.
    The rule of peace in the Gulf countries and dialogue with the West.
  • We. Raffaele Fitto, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Cohesion and Reforms.
    The EU's place in the global world.
  • Bishop Francis Savino, Bishop of Cassano all'Jonio and Vice-president of the CEI.
    The reasons for peace and difficult mediations.
  • Massimiliano Panarari, professor of Sociology of Communication at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
    Words like stones. The deconstruction of the political language of the new autocrats.
  • Ciro Sbailò, Professor of Comparative Public Law at UNINT.
    End of International Law?
  • Mario Calingiuri, Full Professor of General and Social Pedagogy at the University of Calabria.
    Hybrid wars: the new horizons of belligerence.
  • Joseph Tito, journalist, head of the political-parliamentary editorial team of ANSA.
    Telling the war.

Contacts, enrolment, and fees

Lessons will be held every Thursday in mixed mode in person and online on the platform Everywhere from 14:00 PM to 16:00 PM, unless otherwise scheduled, starting November 27, 2025.

The School is open to all UNINT students. The number of ECTS to be awarded to each student is determined by their respective degree course.

How to register:

Send an e-mail from your University mailbox to the address scuolapolitica@unint.eu, writing in the subject “registration to the School of Political Sciences” and indicating in the body of the e-mail your name and surname, the degree course you are enrolled in and your matriculation number.

A certificate of attendance will be issued to participants under the following conditions:

  • participation in at least 80% of the lectures;
  • final interview on a topic chosen by the student and agreed with the scientific committee.

The school will be open to an external public, subject to agreements reached with the scientific committee.

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