1. Inner peace, human equality and interconnectedness, freedom, dignity, and the pursuit of the common good, are among the main concepts found in the WYA’s declarations on the family and solidarity, and Dalai Lama’s Global Family. All of these concepts are highly interconnected and interdependent. Dalai Lama talks about how the world is “shirking” as people are getting closer and closer to each other. For that reason, a set of values have to be integrated into people’s mindset, values that allow understanding the equality among human beings, and the necessity of cooperation in order to achieve a truly free, just, and ultimately prosperous global society. On the other hand, the WYA’s Declaration on Family is directly addressing one of the most important (if not the most) cells on a society; the family. It is here where the human…show more content… The Declaration on Solidarity claims that solidarity is the commitment of a person to work on the pursuit for the common good, acknowledging that by working towards the common good, the person is building his own prosperity. In conclusion, we can see how these three readings and their core concepts are deeply complementary, and how they all consider the success of a society to be dependent on the development of the individual values of human beings.
2. The statement “workers of all enterprises – unite!” might definitely appeal to the Burmese member. The word unity is completely necessary in order to succeed in a large-scale, and in the long-term. The fact that the workers at Gdansk did not accept a settlement that would be favorable for them, but that would betray the rest of the Polish workers, demonstrated unity.
