Evarist Bartolo

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Evarist Bartolo is a Maltese politician within the Labour Party, and until very recently, he has served as the Minister for Foreign and European Affairs.

He served as Malta’s Minister for Education and Employment between 2013 and January 2020, with another term as Minister for Education and Culture between 1996 and 1998.

Born in Mellieha in 1952, he served as a member of the Maltese Parliament between 1992 and 2022.

He writes:

“When I was 23 in 1975 I worked for two years as a volunteer in Sicily with anti-Mafia activist Danilo Dolci who had just set up a new school based on dialogue and non-violence.

Johan Galtung was one of the determined supporters of Dolci and a frequent visitor to Partinico and Trappeto to talk about a new peace education for a new cooperative world was .

As usual, Galtung provoked us to think out of the box as for him real thinking was necessarily original thinking, all else was lazy thinking and more of the same that produces the same results.

Through Galtung I learned to take the long broad view and to connect together peace, development and education and the best way for us to learn to live together in the world full of diversity is to learn from each other.”

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