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Disability and the Human Condition. Changing the Social Determinants of Disabilities and Building a New Culture of Inclusion

Proceedings of the 2024 Plenary Session
Disability and the Human Condition
9-11 April 2024
Helen Alford and Fabio Ferrucci (editors)
Acta 24, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City, 2025
ISBN 978-88-266-1026-9

Contents

Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to Participants

Word of Welcome

Sr Helen Alford, PASS President

Introduction

Card. Peter K.A. Turkson, PASS Chancellor

Session I: Lives Worth Living: Operationalizing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

An Ordinary Life: Imagining a World in which Disability is a Normal Part of Life

Sheila Hollins

Disability as an Anthropological and Theological Challenge

Msgr Roland Minnerath

ICF: The Universalizing Concept of Disability and Functioning

Matilde Leonardi

Disability and Persons with Disability

Jerome Bickenbach

Disabilities, Rights and Relations

Marta Cartabia

Session II: Disability, Poverty and Inequalities: What New Policies for Economic Inclusion?

Multidimensional Poverty and Disability: Analysis of 52 Countries Using the Global MPI

Monica Pinilla-Roncancio, Sabina Alkire, Gustavo Cedeño-Ocampo

Economic Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities: Imperatives, Impediments, and Remedies

Fr. Albino Barrera, OP

On the Inclusion of Disabled Persons in the Labor Market: Lessons from the Disability Employment Gap

Jutta Allmendinger

Mental Disabilities. Why Are They Increasing and What Should Be Done to Reverse Such a Perverse Trend

Stefano Zamagni

Employing Persons with Disabilities: Insights from Catholic Social Thought and Social Enterprise

Sr Helen Alford, PASS President

Session III: Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Perspectives on Disability and the Human Condition

Physical and Moral Disabilities: Plato and Confucius on the Life Worth Living

Tongdong Bai

Human Beings Above and Beyond Functional Categorizations: Taking Stock from the Philosophy of Disability

Ana Marta González

The Roots of the Intrinsic Dignity of Persons with Disabilities

Rodrigo Guerra López

One Like Us: Disability and the Incarnate Word

Fr. Justin Glyn, SJ

The Cultures of Exclusion in Times of Civilizational Crisis

Krzysztof Wielecki

Session IV: Culture, Education and Communities as Facilitators of the Flourishing of Persons with Disabilities

Media Representations of the Disabled Identity in Contemporary Society

Msgr. Dario E. Viganò

Raising Children According to Their Needs and Nurturing Their Gifts: The Story of “Mele”

Chiara Paolini

Education for All: Children, Disabilities, and the Global Compact for Education

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Interacting with the Disabled Experimental Evidence on Helping, and on Deciding on Behalf of Others

Christoph Engel

The Care of People with Disabilities and Fragilities Through the Creation of Relational Goods

Pierpaolo Donati

Session V: Challenges and Opportunities for Inclusive Societies: Emerging Issues

Living a Life Like Yours

Tom Shakespeare

Research and Innovation for the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities: A Science Policy Survey

Riccardo Pozzo

Towards a New Welfare of Rights. People With Disabilities and Their Families as Protagonists of Change

Vincenzo Falabella

Session VI: Promoting Social Justice in Participatory Societies: A Global Perspective

People with Disabilities in Remote Indigenous Communities

Virgílio M. Viana

The Vulnerabilities of Persons Living with Disabilities in Nigeria

Kokunre Agbontaen-Eghafona

The Invisible Wealth of Nations – Care Economy and Disability: Community-Based Approach to Public Policies from the Peripheries

Gustavo Beliz

Living with Disabilities: The Consequence of Welfare Reforms in the UK and Thoughts for the Future

John McEldowney

Commemorations of Deceased Academicians

Herbert Schambeck

Msgr. Roland Minnerath

Margaret S. Archer

Pierpaolo Donati

Fr. Michael Schooyans

Rocco Buttiglione

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