Abstract
Debates on governance in globalization have focused mainly on the power relations on a vertical scale between states, regional blocs, and nation states. Yet the rise in concerns and conflicts arising out of social or cultural imbalances indicates how important it is to give attention to the horizontal relations between the different agents and groups that are shifting their positions in the new global context
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Keynote address delivered at the UNESCO International Labour Organization Meeting on Social Development, held at UNESCO, Paris, France, 9 September 2004. Unpublished.
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Sponsored by the International Labour Organization, the World Commission on Social Dimensions of Globalization was headed jointly by the President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, and the President of Tanzania, William Mkapa, with very distinguished participating members.
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The United Nations World Commission for Culture and Development, organized by UNESCO and headed by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, presented its Report Our Creative Diversity in 1995 (UNESCO 1995). Lourdes Arizpe, author of this chapter, was a member of the Commission and in charge of its Secretariat.
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Arizpe, L. (2015). Culture, Governance and Globalization. In: Culture, Diversity and Heritage: Major Studies. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13811-4_10
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