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| | Educating for tolerance, a response to anti-Semitism
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14-05-2003 - The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura opened on Monday, 12 May the second international conference “Educating for Tolerance: The Case of Resurgent Anti-Semitism”, organized by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in cooperation with UNESCO, from 12 to 14 May at the Organization’s Headquarters. |
In the presence of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Natan Sharansky, the French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, and Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean and Founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Koïchiro Matsuura spoke of UNESCO’s constant efforts, in its fields of competence, to fight the spread of anti-Semitism. He particularly highlighted the role of educating for tolerance as a ‘vital tool’ for promoting the acquisition of relevant knowledge, values, attitudes and capabilities for all learners, especially young people. “Properly conducted,” he declared, “such education aimed at ‘learning to live together’ should help learners to find out for themselves, to judge for themselves and to think for themselves.”
Koïchiro Matsuura also stressed the need to promote and cultivate a dialogue between civilizations, cultures and religions. Within this framework he noted that “it is vital that all domestic communities – whether ethnic, religious or national diasporas – are assured the right to coexist in social harmony regardless of conflicts between countries with which they may identify emotively, spiritually or nostalgically.” “Inter-communal relations,” he continued, “must be decoupled from such international affinities or conflicts as a first step to containing the growth of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and other expressions of hatred and intolerance.”
The complete text of the speech delivered by the Director-General is reproduced below.
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