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| What UNESCO for the Future |
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| A reflexion on current and future trends, on potential gaps that must be filled and on future scenarios, with a foreword by Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, and an introduction by Mr Pierre Sané, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Social and Human Sciences. |
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 The Forum of Reflexion “What UNESCO for the future?” was launched by the Social and Human Sciences Sector of UNESCO on 18 November 2004, on the occasion of the Third Philosophy Day. It continued throughout 2005 as a cycle of open debates whose main objective was to stimulate creative and audacious thinking on the future direction of UNESCO among Permanent Delegations, National Commissions and the Secretariat. In inviting thinkers, philosophers, political leaders and experts from diverse parts of the world, the Forum aimed above all to stimulate our common reflexion and to provide food for thought through insightful, out-of-the box perspectives.
‘What UNESCO for the future?’ proceeds from a reflexion on current and future trends and potential gaps that must be filled, on future scenarios and on ‘What UNESCO?’ in terms of its role today as a participant that could influence the processes of global transformation.
‘What UNESCO for the future?’ reflects on UNESCO’s possible responses to the rising global challenges it faces today. In other words, what role could our Organization have within the United Nations system, and what contribution could it make towards resolving the main challenges and threats of the twenty-first century?
If, as some think, we have effectively arrived at a crossroads – that we are reaching a point of no return in a number of fields (water, energy, climate change, pollution, terrorism, nuclear power) – what UNESCO will allow us to face this future? What relationship to foster between the Organization’s fields of competence and its functions? What methods to use to reach the world’s most vulnerable populations if we are to build intellectual co-operation worthy of the name?
This publication presents the addresses given in the course of this forum by sixteen personalities:Click here to download the publication (PDF format, 929 Ko).
Contact: Marina Faetanini, m.faetanini@unesco.org |
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Author(s) |
Attali, Jacques; Badinter, Robert; Boutros-Ghali, Boutros; Bachir Diagne, Souleymane; Haddad-Chamakh, Fatma; Huang, Ping; Jacquard, Albert; Kent, Randolph; Kim, Yersu; Mbembé, Achille; Morin, Edgar; Owada, Hisashi; Rojas-Mix, Miguel; Rossetti Gallardo, Carolina; Salamé, Ghassan; Weiming, Tu |
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UNESCO |
| Publication Date |
04-05-2006 |
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UNESCO |
| Publication Location |
Paris, France |
| Number of Pages |
204 p. |
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