World Forum on Theology and Liberation (WFTL) – Online, June 6-9, 2022

World Forum on Theology and Liberation (WFTL) – Online, June 6-9, 2022

With World Social Forum (WSF) – Mexico, May 1-6, 2022

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

To all interested groups and peoples,

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to submit proposals for contributions to the program of the 11^th World Forum on Theology and Liberation (WFTL). Due to the current challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, our forum will be held in two stages:

(1)  In the framework of the World Social Forum (WSF) 2022 in Mexico City, from 1^st to 6^th of May 2022, whose general theme is “Another world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic”. The World Social Forum will be held in a hybrid format, with on-site and online activities, for the general audience of the WSF. The WFTL will present self-managed workshops, face-to-face and/or online.

(2)    In an online theological forum one month later, from June 6^th to 9^th, 2022, on the theme “Action and Promise: Struggling Against Violence, Building Justice and Rethinking Relationality in the Context of Climate Change.”

This year’s theme invites us to consider action and promise and how to think about them in the struggles against violence, the construction of justice, and the challenge of rethinking the relationality in the time of climate change. The WFTL is an ecumenical, dialogical and plural space; it seeks to foster the creation of contextual spiritualities and theologies, in a perspective of liberation, with regard to the crucial issues of our time. This year’s WFTL is organized by Mexico-based organizations, and by the WFTL’s international members.

How to act, fight, love and hope in the time of climate change? Inscribing itself within the World Social Forum, the 2022. The theme will be developed through eleven thematic axes which should serve as points of reference for your contributions: 1 –Liberation as a hermeneutical and practical principle; 2– Liberation, Democracy and the Common Good; 3– Liberation and decoloniality; 4– Violence, Human rights, Rights of the Poor; 5– Environmental justice and food security; 6– Migration, climatic migrants and territorialities; 7– New languages and liberating reconstruction of symbolic and mythical languages; 8– Pact of religious traditions with   policies   of   Justice,   Peace   and Ecology; 9– Gender, Feminism and Diversities; 10– Youth and intergenerational relations ; 11– or any other focal area that allows liberation. These are the anchor points of our creativity, directing our energies towards a shared goal: that a transformed world becomes a concrete reality.

Below, you will find instructions providing key information that should be included with your contribution proposals.