When: Friday, April 08, 2022 From 6:00 pm To 7:00 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute in New York - What: Book presentation: "The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights" By Dr. Erica Moretti (Fashion Institute of Technology), The author in conversation with Dr. Silvia Carlorosi (Bronx Community College of the City University of New York

Erica Moretti brings back Montessori’s pacifist work as fundamental in both her educational activism and innovative pedagogic practices as applied to refugee children from World War I. She strongly believed that her pedagogical approach would be able to re-habilitate them, physically and mentally.