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In the last decades or so, Discourses on Livy has become the book where Machiavelli theorizes that political freedom is a result of social conflict. An increasing number of scholars have argued, and argue, that this issue has to be taken as one of Machiavelli's major contributions to political thought. What our thesis tries to demonstrate is that this statement has no real textual basis. And the reason is – we argue - that when you have a very close and deep look on the Discourses, you have to recognize that it's not clear at all what Machiavelli thinks about social conflict, as he comes out with so many contradictory statements on the subject that make it impossible to talk of any kind of a theory. ; Dans les dernières décennies, les Discours sur la première décade de Tite-Live ont été lus comme le traité dans lequel Machiavel livre sa théorie de la liberté politique en tant que résultat du conflit social. Un nombre toujours grandissant de chercheurs estime en effet que c'est en cela que consiste la contribution la plus importante du Florentin à la pensée politique. Notre thèse essaie de démontrer que cette position exégétique ne dispose pas de réels fondements dans l'œuvre machiavélienne. Une lecture ponctuelle des Discours atteste bien que la pensée machiavélienne est tout sauf univoque à ce sujet et le nombre de contradictions dans lesquelles l'auteur s'engouffre finit par rendre impossible la constitution d'une quelconque théorie.

Lombardy is one of the most densely populated and industrialized regions in Europe, where nearly 280 Seveso sites are located. The issue of risk communication, as set by the European Seveso Directive is therefore of high relevance in this region. Nevertheless, the Lombardy Region Authorities consider that the implementation of the Directive's provisions is too weak. Therefore, the Lombardy Region financed an exploratory research in November 2009 and all the research activities ended in February 2011. (Éupolis Lombardia 2011). The research was conducted in order to estimate the existing gaps in risk communication, the subsequent conflicts and to evaluate how to improve the participation of the population in the emergency preparedness activities. The main goal of the project was to improve the communication of risk to the population exposed to industrial risks, hence to mitigate the related social conflict on the basis of an institutional learning process involving governmental bodies industrial organizations and the population. The project was supported by a multidisciplinary research group, which investigated the following aspects:- the regional activities regarding the risk communication at local level;- the nature and status of the main stakeholders groups' perception of the industrial risks and the existing conflicts, collected through interviews and groups' discussions;- the analysis of the gaps and ways of improvement related to an effective strategy of communication between industry, population and emergency services. A forum involving all the institutional stakeholders was set to discuss this issue.The paper reports the main results of the research and illustrates the potential strategies to improve the risk communication and the population participation and preparedness for the Lombardy Region. The results showed that the level of risk perception of the population in Lombardy is still too low to define a program of communication without having considered in more detail the mode of involvement of the population. In a context characterized by a distorted perception of risk, the low risk perception could be a sensitive issue that may impend the start of the communication process because it could generate anxiety, alarmism or unnecessary conflicts. Nevertheless, the experiments carried out showed that the population potentially exposed to the industrial risks, if properly involved, shows particular interest in issues related to prevention and self-protection. According to the main results of research project, the involvement of population into a dedicated programme on risk communication should not present a significant concern and the conflict between the industries and the population does not appear to be a particular obstacle to risk communication. On the contrary it was shown that collaboration could be beneficial for all the stakeholders while the most significant limitation to this process, is the low public perception of the problem. ; Lombardy is one of the most densely populated and industrialized regions in Europe, where nearly 280 Seveso sites are located. The issue of risk communication, as set by the European Seveso Directive is therefore of high relevance in this region. Nevertheless, the Lombardy Region Authorities consider that the implementation of the Directive's provisions is too weak. Therefore, the Lombardy Region financed an exploratory research in November 2009 and all the research activities ended in February 2011. (Éupolis Lombardia 2011). The research was conducted in order to estimate the existing gaps in risk communication, the subsequent conflicts and to evaluate how to improve the participation of the population in the emergency preparedness activities. The main goal of the project was to improve the communication of risk to the population exposed to industrial risks, hence to mitigate the related social conflict on the basis of an institutional learning process involving governmental bodies industrial organizations and the population. The project was supported by a multidisciplinary research group, which investigated the following aspects:- the regional activities regarding the risk communication at local level;- the nature and status of the main stakeholders groups' perception of the industrial risks and the existing conflicts, collected through interviews and groups' discussions;- the analysis of the gaps and ways of improvement related to an effective strategy of communication between industry, population and emergency services. A forum involving all the institutional stakeholders was set to discuss this issue.The paper reports the main results of the research and illustrates the potential strategies to improve the risk communication and the population participation and preparedness for the Lombardy Region. The results showed that the level of risk perception of the population in Lombardy is still too low to define a program of communication without having considered in more detail the mode of involvement of the population. In a context characterized by a distorted perception of risk, the low risk perception could be a sensitive issue that may impend the start of the communication process because it could generate anxiety, alarmism or unnecessary conflicts. Nevertheless, the experiments carried out showed that the population potentially exposed to the industrial risks, if properly involved, shows particular interest in issues related to prevention and self-protection. According to the main results of research project, the involvement of population into a dedicated programme on risk communication should not present a significant concern and the conflict between the industries and the population does not appear to be a particular obstacle to risk communication. On the contrary it was shown that collaboration could be beneficial for all the stakeholders while the most significant limitation to this process, is the low public perception of the problem.

Lombardy is one of the most densely populated and industrialized regions in Europe, where nearly 280 Seveso sites are located. The issue of risk communication, as set by the European Seveso Directive is therefore of high relevance in this region. Nevertheless, the Lombardy Region Authorities consider that the implementation of the Directive's provisions is too weak. Therefore, the Lombardy Region financed an exploratory research in November 2009 and all the research activities ended in February 2011. (Éupolis Lombardia 2011). The research was conducted in order to estimate the existing gaps in risk communication, the subsequent conflicts and to evaluate how to improve the participation of the population in the emergency preparedness activities. The main goal of the project was to improve the communication of risk to the population exposed to industrial risks, hence to mitigate the related social conflict on the basis of an institutional learning process involving governmental bodies industrial organizations and the population. The project was supported by a multidisciplinary research group, which investigated the following aspects:- the regional activities regarding the risk communication at local level;- the nature and status of the main stakeholders groups' perception of the industrial risks and the existing conflicts, collected through interviews and groups' discussions;- the analysis of the gaps and ways of improvement related to an effective strategy of communication between industry, population and emergency services. A forum involving all the institutional stakeholders was set to discuss this issue.The paper reports the main results of the research and illustrates the potential strategies to improve the risk communication and the population participation and preparedness for the Lombardy Region. The results showed that the level of risk perception of the population in Lombardy is still too low to define a program of communication without having considered in more detail the mode of involvement of the population. In a context characterized by a distorted perception of risk, the low risk perception could be a sensitive issue that may impend the start of the communication process because it could generate anxiety, alarmism or unnecessary conflicts. Nevertheless, the experiments carried out showed that the population potentially exposed to the industrial risks, if properly involved, shows particular interest in issues related to prevention and self-protection. According to the main results of research project, the involvement of population into a dedicated programme on risk communication should not present a significant concern and the conflict between the industries and the population does not appear to be a particular obstacle to risk communication. On the contrary it was shown that collaboration could be beneficial for all the stakeholders while the most significant limitation to this process, is the low public perception of the problem. ; Lombardy is one of the most densely populated and industrialized regions in Europe, where nearly 280 Seveso sites are located. The issue of risk communication, as set by the European Seveso Directive is therefore of high relevance in this region. Nevertheless, the Lombardy Region Authorities consider that the implementation of the Directive's provisions is too weak. Therefore, the Lombardy Region financed an exploratory research in November 2009 and all the research activities ended in February 2011. (Éupolis Lombardia 2011). The research was conducted in order to estimate the existing gaps in risk communication, the subsequent conflicts and to evaluate how to improve the participation of the population in the emergency preparedness activities. The main goal of the project was to improve the communication of risk to the population exposed to industrial risks, hence to mitigate the related social conflict on the basis of an institutional learning process involving governmental bodies industrial organizations and the population. The project was supported by a multidisciplinary research group, which investigated the following aspects:- the regional activities regarding the risk communication at local level;- the nature and status of the main stakeholders groups' perception of the industrial risks and the existing conflicts, collected through interviews and groups' discussions;- the analysis of the gaps and ways of improvement related to an effective strategy of communication between industry, population and emergency services. A forum involving all the institutional stakeholders was set to discuss this issue.The paper reports the main results of the research and illustrates the potential strategies to improve the risk communication and the population participation and preparedness for the Lombardy Region. The results showed that the level of risk perception of the population in Lombardy is still too low to define a program of communication without having considered in more detail the mode of involvement of the population. In a context characterized by a distorted perception of risk, the low risk perception could be a sensitive issue that may impend the start of the communication process because it could generate anxiety, alarmism or unnecessary conflicts. Nevertheless, the experiments carried out showed that the population potentially exposed to the industrial risks, if properly involved, shows particular interest in issues related to prevention and self-protection. According to the main results of research project, the involvement of population into a dedicated programme on risk communication should not present a significant concern and the conflict between the industries and the population does not appear to be a particular obstacle to risk communication. On the contrary it was shown that collaboration could be beneficial for all the stakeholders while the most significant limitation to this process, is the low public perception of the problem.

OBJETIVO: la reconciliación asegurada por el Derecho se demuestra a menudo insuficiente y lenta en la efectiva solución del conflicto. La mediación, como nueva forma democrática del "hacer justicia" en los conflictos sociales, es un nuevo proyecto para la contención de los tiempos, de los costes, del formalismo y de la rigidez del juicio ordinario y que al mismo tiempo puede llevar a cabo una justicia psicológica cercana a los individuos. MÉTODO: investigaciones en los Tribunales, en los Organismos de mediación y comparación de análisis estadísticos nacionales sobre la mediación y sobre juicios pendientes del 2012 al 2015. RESULTADOS: las indagaciones estadísticas y las investigaciones enfatizan que la mediación en Italia, desde el momento de entrada en vigor (marzo 2011) de la Ley 28/2010 a hoy, es un organismo utilizado cada vez más como sistema de gestión de conflictos mejorando, por tanto, las relaciones sociales y reduciendo los tiempos y costes de la justicia. Desde el 2014 al 2015 las causas han disminuido un 9,5% y el porcentaje de los intentos obligatorios de mediación respecto al total de los procedimientos de mediación, en el 2015, ha sido del 81,6%. Es más, las estadísticas demuestran cómo con la participación directa de las partes, aumentan las resoluciones de controversias. De hecho, cuando la parte invitada comparece, lo que sucede en el 44,9% de los casos, el éxito positivo de las mediaciones es del 43,5%. CONCLUSIONES: la mediación no es una simple técnica para resolver conflictos, sino un proyecto de sociedad nueva que está contribuyendo a pasar de un orden antiguo, pensado como sometimiento del ciudadano a las decisiones superiores, a un orden innovador, útil en el tercer milenio, basado en la participación real y activa del individuo en la gestión de la vida cotidiana colectiva. La mediación es una bisagra fundamental para poder llevar a cabo un salto de cualidad en la gestión de conflictos. Sería oportuna una masiva campaña mediática que hiciera conocer a los ciudadanos la verdadera cara y potencialidad de la mediación. ; OBJECTIVE: the pacification ensured by law it is often inadequate and slow for the effective solution of the conflict. Mediation, as a new democratic form of "justice" in social conflicts, is a new project to save time, costs, the formality and rigidity of the ordinary proceedings and at the same time it can implement a psychological justice nearby individuals. METHOD: researches in the Courts, in mediation systems and comparison of national statistical surveys on mediation and on pending cases from 2012 to 2015. RESULTS: statistical surveys and researches put in evidence that mediation in Italy, since the entry into force (March 2011) of the Law 28/2010 to date, is increasingly used as a party-sharing system institution and no more as order imposed for conflict management improving, therefore, social relationships and reducing time and costs of criminal proceedings. From 2014 to 2015 the causes decreased by 9.5% and the percentage of mandatory mediation efforts compare to the total of the mediation processes, always in 2015, was equal to 81.6%. And yet, statistics show that, with the direct participation of the parties, increase the solution of the disputes. In fact, when the referred persons appear, and what it happens in 44.9% of cases, the positive outcome of mediations is about 43.5%. CONCLUSION: mediation is not a simple technique to resolve conflicts, but a project of a new society that is helping to pass from the ancient order as submission of the citizen to superior decisions towards an innovative order, to be used in the third millennium, based on real and active participation of the individual to the collective management of everyday life. Mediation is an unbreakable key to make a quantum leap in conflict management. It would be opportune massive media campaign to make citizens aware of the true face and the potential of mediation.

The article starts from noting that the social deficit of the European Union has aggravated during the recent economic crisis, despite the ambitious social objectives included in the Lisbon Treaty. The balance between economic integration and the social dimension that EU Law and the case law of the CJEU have pursued during the years has been destabilized, generating new political and social conflicts. Faced with these alarming tendencies, scholars have recently put forward some interesting proposals, in particular the proposal for a European Social Union (ESU). For its proponents, this Union would not be a fully federal welfare State, but rather a closer union between national welfare systems better capable to sustain solidarity within each nation State while promoting new forms of transnational solidarity. The core of the essay illustrates this proposal. It clarifies the proposed core mission of the ESU as well as its internal organization. In particular, it discusses the role that the European Pillar of Social Rights and EU citizenship could play in it. Reflections are devoted also to the thorny question of how to strengthen pan-European solidarity. It concludes by outlining possible future scenarios.