Simone Marchetti, the editorial of the director: we open breacce to build peace

This article by Simone Marchetti is published in the number 17 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until April 22, 2025

Music helps to live normal even in war. Olena Kohut was the pianist and organist who taught at the school of art and culture of Sumy, Ukraine. He lost his life during the Russian attack that caused a massacre on Palm Sunday. A day of celebration in which death also touched a child in the arms of the mother: “They hit me,” he shouted, and that video reminds the world the horror of the war that strikes the most defenseless. As In Gaza City, where the Israeli army destroyed the last hospital Open and now, in addition to the hunger and absence of aid, there will be no more care for the sick and the most vulnerable.

Peter Cameron in 2007 wrote a book, which has become best seller, with an evocative title: One day this pain will be useful to you. It does not speak of war, it is a novel about the formation of a young American, but Ovid’s quote is the wish that it should support every experience, even the toughest. But what utility can the pain caused by wars have?

According to the estimates of the NGO ARMED FREE LOCATION AND EVENT DATA, Today 56 conflicts are underway in the world – the highest number from the Second World War – which directly or indirectly involve at least 92 countries, including Italy, and who forced over 100 million people to migrate inside and outside their borders to escape violence.

“The things we do each other, the inhumanity of the war are universal,” Angelina Jolie told us about her new director’s film Bloodlesstaken from a book by Alessandro Baricco, in which he investigates the impact on the lives of people who have lived a conflict, indelible scars, because, says Jolie, «War does not end when the bombs stop
fall, especially for children ».

In this number we also tell you the stories of the collateral victims of another violence, that of feminicides. Paola Cesaroni, Claudia Salamone and Chiara Tramontano, sisters of Simonetta, Valentina and Giulia, They told us about the wound that reopens every new fact of the news, and the crossroads in front of which we find: Let yourself go or transform pain into force and fight for change.

The hope of all of us is that the pain is never useless and, In these days preceding Easter, I want to remember an invitation that applies to everyone, believers of every religion and non -believers. An invitation to the opening, dialogue, rebirthas Erri De Luca writes: “Then it is full Easter for you and manufacture passages where there are walls and barrier, for you openrs of breaches, jumpers of obstacles, couriers at any cost, athletes of the word peace».

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