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In a shrinking planet wired and webbed by the most continuous and interactive cultural contacts in history, people are constantly having to negotiate with others with different values, attitudes, and behaviours. This means that the world is one but the many have not yet found their place in it. Our own nature as human beings makes us forever look at the world from a specific place, a specific time. Before, the horizon of our eyes had always been transformed into the boundary of ‘our world’. What happens when we can see beyond our known physical horizon, to the other side of the world? What happens when we can see, in live time, people falling to their death? Or see the houses destroyed when the dust settles—on the other side of the world?
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This paper was presented at a meeting of the ‘Eminent Persons for the Dialogue of Civilizations’ on 20 September 2001. An extract of 8 pages of this paper was delivered at the United Nations General Assembly on 8 November 2001.
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The General Assembly of the United Nations declared the year 2001 as the Year of Dialogue among Civilizations with UNESCO having responsibility for organizing its activities. A ‘Group of Eminent Persons for the Year of Dialogue among Civilizations’—including Kamal Aboulmagd, Lourdes Arizpe, Ruth Cardoso, Jacques Delors, Hans Küng, Nadime Gordimer, and Javad Sharif—were asked to write a report to be presented to the UN General Assembly; the title they chose was Crossing the Divide: the Dialogue of Civilizations (2002).
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Available at: <http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001139/113935eo.pdf> (23 March 2014).
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Available at: <http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13179&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> (23 March 2014).
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Umberto Eco, personal communication, UNESCO 1997.
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European Union ambassador, 1998, communication at meeting in New York.
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UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, available at: <http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13179&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html> (23 March 2014).
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Cardoso, Ruth, 2001: Speech at the United Nations Assembly, New York, 8 November.
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Arizpe, L. (2015). Equality of Vulnerability and Opportunity. 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_12
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