In response to the range of challenges we witness worldwide in the last decade the conference will focus on the need to reflect Diaconia’s inner sources and to strengthen its potential in order to enhance its readiness to enter the public space with its prophetic voice and acts whatever the circumstances around may be. Forced migrations, pandemics taking away our freedom and lives, disregard to constitutionality, democracy, international law, undermined respect to human rights and human worth,  disregard for human intellect by the rise of AI, fragility of safe environment due to armed conflicts, violence, populism as means of reaching particular interests, growing painful divisions in our societies, organisations and even partnerships, as if shared values of truth, trust, social justice, civil, communal and relational dimensions of our lives lost their place in the public space. While Diaconia may work hard on strategies how to tackle particular challenges in such contexts, and may even anticipate further scenarios of the world nearly going mad, equally it may need to draw attention to its inner sources as to the well the life giving water can be drawn. 

The 11th Conference for Research in Diaconia and Christian Social Practice (ReDi) on September 22 to 25, 2027 is approaching.

Further Information about Keynote speakers and their abstracts will be clarified at a later date.