🎓 UN first joint study on the tools for Peace

The UNESCO Chair on “Peace, Solidarity and Intercultural Dialogue” of the University presented the book “The long path to peace. Towards a culture of prevention”

Fecha: Friday, 29 de June de 2018 a las 14:15h

UN first joint study on the tools for Peace

The UNESCO Chair on “Peace, Solidarity and Intercultural Dialogue” of the University presented the book “The long path to peace. Towards a culture of prevention”. The work gathers the first joint study of the United Nations institutions in order to analyse their contribution to a preventive culture of Peace.

The book has been presented at the Library of the Palace of Nations in Geneva. There were several speeches, performed by the managing director of the United Nations Office, Michael Moller, the UNESCO chair holder in Banaras Hindu University, Prinyankar Upadhyaya, the UN special representative in Siria, Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, the president of the 39th General Conference of UNESCO, Zohour Alaoui and the former rapporteur of the Work Group on Peace Rights, Christian Guillermet. All these speakers took part in a discussion moderated by the deputy director of Social Sciences and Humanities at UNESCO, Nada Al-Nashif.

This study has been encouraged by our university on demand of UNESCO. The outcome shows the circa three years of research on the 70 year-old institution the UNESCO represents, its career towards promoting Peace and the tools it has to build a culture of Peace. Eventually, the book concludes with a set of proposals to consolidate and widen the contribution of the United Nations to bring a culture of Peace to life.

In this book, Peace is understood as a wider concept than the absence of conflict. Therefore, topics like access to education, deep inequalities, severe poverty or the current situation of the refugees are included.

“The long path to Peace. Towards a culture of prevention” covers an array of visions on Peace, since the work that makes up the study was done jointly with the UN and its 32 Funds, Programs and Specialised Agencies. A fact that makes this study the first to offer such a conciliatory view.

UN first joint study on the tools for Peace