The resolution of a conflict requires an effort in listening and being hospitable.
At the start of the Josefa Foundation, these deeply moving words: "I was a stranger and you welcomed me"; a conflict occurs between the other, in his difference, and I, in my ability to welcome. Is it reconcilable?
In order to resolve this tension, this internal, or even external, conflict, I am called to leave my house, to migrate in order to meet with the stranger, the foreigner, the refugee.
Listening to the other, hearing with an open heart the story of their often painful and forced migration... "He left his property, his family, his friends and his country and ended up elsewhere, here, vulnerable." Pacifying a conflict over differences requires me to seek my own vulnerability before reaching out to others and so that on this basis may be born a reciprocal hospitality, thus leading to a conflict resolution.
Joseph
