Culture in Emergency Situations
In post-conflict and post-disaster situations, the recognition of cultural diversity, encompassing both heritage and creativity, can serve as a positive force behind dialogue, mutual understanding, reconciliation, social stability and reconstruction.
UNESCO works in such areas as promoting good practices in the area of intercommunity mediation; developing intercultural sensitivity particularly among young people; encouraging the exchange of cultural goods and expressions as well as encounters between cultural actors; and revealing the multifaceted nature of history and the so-called “national culture”.
Such actions – carried out by UNESCO in a number of post-crisis and “peacebuilding” settings around the world – can contribute to the construction of a more peaceful and stable for communities that have suffered at the hands of humankind or the forces of nature.
News
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27.09.16
Timbuktu Trial: "A major step towards peace and reconciliation in Mali"
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22.09.16
UNESCO meetings on illicit trafficking in cultural properties
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23.08.16
UNESCO Director-General welcomes opening of trial on the destruction of heritage in Timbuktu
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07.07.16
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24.05.16
UNESCO deplores destructions at the Maarrat al Numan Museum in Idlib province, Syria