Al-Nasser of Qatar Named High Representative for Alliance of Civilizations
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week designated Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser, President of the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly, as High Representative for the Alliance of...
View ArticleEmerging leaders from the Middle East to experience US during election.
Twelve young leaders from North Africa and the Middle East are arriving in New York this week with the aim of creating new alliances and gaining knowledge and understanding of the United States and...
View ArticleU.N. to Build Bridges Battling “Merchants of Hate”
Amidst the rising tide of racial and religious intolerance worldwide – including xenophobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia – the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) will meet in the Austrian...
View ArticleAlliance Aims to Get Past Intolerance
A UN summit designed to promote tolerance, plurality and global inclusiveness of civilisations has opened with dire warnings of the threat of religious and ethnic intolerance – at the same time as many...
View Article‘Media Needs an Alliance With Minorities’
Amid calls from world leaders for media diversity and plurality to be strengthened to combat a rising tide of extremism and intolerance, media experts have warned that change should not be expected...
View ArticleQ&A: ‘Alliance of Civilisations, a Need and a Challenge’
The fifth global forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC), founded to promote intercultural understanding and dialogue to bring civilisations closer, came to a close Thursday after...
View ArticleGive a Teenager a Camera, Watch the World Change
Today’s youth are hardly passive consumers of content – they create it, endlessly updating via social media and spreading information faster than one can say “go”. This weekend at New York’s Columbia...
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Global Citizenship Key to World Peace
By Minh LeUNITED NATIONS, Feb 24 2014 (IPS) Nobel Laureate Betty Williams started her speech to a peace forum at the U.N. headquarters Thursday with perhaps the last thing the audience would expect her...
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OPINION: Towards a Global Governance Information Clearing House
This is the third in a series of special articles to commemorate the 50th anniversary of IPS, which was set up in 1964, the same year as the Group of 77 (G77) and UNCTAD.By Ramesh JauraBERLIN/ROME, Aug...
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Q&A: Emerging Powers Have a Key Role in Peace and Security
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser. Credit: UN Photo/Eskinder DebebeBy Roger Hamilton-MartinUNITED NATIONS, Nov 10 2014 (IPS)Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser currently heads the United Nations Alliance of...
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Citizens of the World, Unite!
Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury chaired the Forum on Nov. 18, 2014 in New York at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations. Credit: Roger Hamilton-Martin/IPSBy Roger...
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