Book presentation · Le Voci dei Libri
Wednesday, 21 October 2026
Adolfo Ceretti, Roberto Cornelli.
Per una pace possibile
Feltrinelli, 2026. In conversation with Paola Ziccone
- Date
- Wednesday, 21 October 2026
- Time
- 6.30 pm
- Venue
- MAST.Auditorium
- Series
- Le Voci dei Libri
- Publisher
- Feltrinelli, 2026
FreeFree admission, booking required
The event
At a time when war is once again becoming the language of politics and the collective imagination, criminologists Adolfo Ceretti and Roberto Cornelli offer a radical and unconventional reflection: is peace still conceivable, and under what conditions?
For the authors, peace is neither a naïve utopia nor a mere armistice, but a process of recognising limits: the limits of force, power, hatred and the claim to absolute truth. Only by acknowledging these limits, both individually and collectively, can conflicts be steered away from destruction and restored to a political dimension.
The book opens with Fragmentos, the counter-monument made in Bogotá by melting down the weapons handed over by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia after the 2016 peace agreement: not a celebratory monument, but a floor to walk on. Drawing on images and real-life cases, and weaving together philosophy, criminology, social theory and ethical-political thought, Ceretti and Cornelli offer a contribution to understanding the present and to reopening, with clarity, the space for a peace that is not rhetorical, but possible.
The authors will be in conversation with Paola Ziccone, Director of the Juvenile Justice Centre for Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige, and penal mediator.
Adolfo Ceretti
Criminologist and Full Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has spent many years researching individual and collective violence and focuses on mediation and the social construction of evil. He is one of the leading experts in restorative justice and the author of numerous essays translated into other languages. With Roberto Cornelli he co-authored Oltre la paura. Affrontare il tema della sicurezza in modo democratico (Feltrinelli, 2013).
Roberto Cornelli
Criminologist (born 1974) and Full Professor at the University of Milan. His research focuses on criminal policy, institutional violence and transitional justice. He is Director of CRIMePO – Centre for Research in Criminology and Public Policy and a member of the coordinating committee of the University Network for Peace.
The book
Adolfo Ceretti, Roberto Cornelli, Per una pace possibile. Responsabilità, giustizia e riparazione al tempo delle guerre
Feltrinelli, Idee series, April 2026, 192 pages
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Part of the Le Voci dei Libri series, in collaboration with Coop Alleanza 3.0.
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