Dear Mr Zaghi,

meeting you has been a kind of coincidence that I would rather call a "sign" and when you started explaining to me your project I was, as you remember, speechless. The reason was that the nobleness of your idea, your passion and dedication. Also the number and level of people that have already shown support for your project were really impressive. Everything seems to indicate that what you are doing and the way you are pursuing your vision, as ambitious at it could appear, are right. I'm convinced that everybody who share the same ambition, and I cannot imagine anyone who doesn't, should do everything in his or her power to make such a dream and vision come true. When we met, you ask me which was my idea of Peace in light of my diplomatic experience and I promised to give you an answer. Well, in a nutshell, let me start mentioning a quote someone told me when I was a young diplomat and I quote: "when the diplomats fail, the generals take over". Diplomacy is definitely a way to Peace, diplomacy means to understand and then to talk and to negotiate. Diplomacy is the never ending effort to keep the dialogue always open, no matter what. Diplomacy is to never shut down the possibility to find a common ground and on that common ground to make a step forward. And as small as each step could be, we should never loose the hope to be able to make another step in the right direction and then another and another and so on until the all process, as long as it could be, will be positively concluded. I personally see the overall process toward Peace as a very similar one. It needs understanding, first of all, and then patience, determination and good will. But what is really crucial to reach and have Peace, is the capacity to look forward and not backward and this is only possible if you can forgive. There is another quote that I would like to mention. Translated from French it sounds: "to understand everything is to forgive everything" and let's remember that to forgive is the highest expression of Love. As you can see, I couldn't agree more with the title of your book and of your mission. Love is the key and teaching a culture of Love is the solution to have Peace. Thank you again for what you are doing and be reassured of my support. I will be honoured to stay on your side in this noble journey and very pleased to help you in every possible way to spread the culture of Love and to make sure that future generations will have Peace. Best regards Folco de Luca Gabrielli

‍Bio:

Ambassador Folco de Luca Gabrielli, a former Italian carrier diplomat, is the Executive Chairman of a consultancy firm in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he's collaborating with companies in Italy and in Los Angeles and he is Senior Fellow at the International Economic Alliance (IEA), a non-partisan, independent, non-profit organisation based in Cambridge, MA.

He has been the Ambassador of Italy to Singapore and the Ambassador of  Italy  to  Malaysia. Amb. de Luca Gabrielli was also the head of the IT Centre of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in early 2001 was seconded to the Italian Prime Minister’s Office in charge of the International Affairs Service.

During the 90's, Mr. de Luca Gabrielli was appointed Consul General in Hong Kong and then Consul General in Los Angeles. His first posting was at the Italian Permanent Mission to the International Organisations in  Geneva, then to  Kampala as Deputy Chief of  Mission and to Teheran in charge of the embassy’s economic/trade division.Amb. de Luca Gabrielli completed a degree in Law at the University of Milan, a Diploma in High European Studies at the College of Europe in Brugge. He also graduated from ISPI (Institute for International Political Studies) in Milan.He is married, the father of a young boy, and he is an avid golfer.

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Folco de Luca Gabrielli