Invitation : Round table "How can education effectively promote respect for diversity and tolerance?

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News Paris, France - 13th March 2015

Invitation : Round table "How can education effectively promote respect for diversity and tolerance?


 

 

 

 

How can education

effectively promote

respect for diversity and tolerance?

 

Wednesday 18 March 2015 at 2:30 p.m., UNESCO, Paris

Online RSVP: http://on.unesco.org/18mar15

Over the past few months, the surge in terrorist attacks, racism, antisemitism, islamophobia and other forms of intolerance, and persistent conflicts along ethnic and religious lines have claimed the lives of many citizens around the world, infringed upon human rights and fundamental freedoms, thereby undermining efforts to build sustainable peace.

In this context, what educational policies should be adopted to fight against racism, antisemitism, islamophobia and other forms of intolerance?

 

 

 

 

Moderator : Madeleine Mukamabano, journalist, Radio France International (RFI), French public radio

 

In the presence of:

·         Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO

·         Mārīte Seile, Minister of Education and Sciences, Republic of Latvia

·         Florence Robine, Director of school education, Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research of the French Republic

 

With the participation of:

·         Jean-Yves Camus, Researcher, French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs(IRIS)

·         Mariam Touré, President, French Association Liberté d’agir scolaire (LAS)

·         Patrice Brodeur, Director of research, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID)

·         Gabriel Brener, Under State Secretary for Equity and Quality Education, Argentina

 

Programme : http://on.unesco.org/1803prog-en (PDF)

 

UNESCO House, room II

125, avenue de Suffren, Paris 7e

M° Ségur-UNESCO, Cambronne or École militaire

Bus : 28, 87, 80, 82

Doors will open at 1:45 p.m.

Online RSVP:  http://on.unesco.org/18mar15

Contacts : gce@unesco.org ou dl.latvia@unesco-delegations.org

 


Source: UNESCO Website