ANTOINE ARJAKOVSKY has a doctorate in History and is the Director of Research at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris, as well as President of the Association des Philosophes Chrétiens. He is also the founder of the Institute for Ecumenical Studies in Lviv, Ukraine. Among his other commitments, he is a director of the Semaines Sociales de France, a vice-president of the Artisans de Paix, and a member of the executive board of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience.