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"The Forum can make a very substantial contribution towards overcoming barriers and frontiers, and towards building this immense space of tolerance and friendship which, even in its foundations, would be the best legacy we could offer to future generations."
Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Ex general director of UNESCO and President of Fundación Cultura de Paz
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As the main habitat of human beings, cities play a crucial role in the building of a fairer globalisation and in extending its potential benefits to everyone, for what affects cities affects nations and their people. Cities also constitute an ideal space for creativity, cultural development, the promotion of identity and social cohesion, while also concentrating the main global challenges that we all face.
The Forum is a cultural and citizen-oriented event where dialogue, exchange and awareness set the foundations for building social cohesion. It also entails a sustainable urban renewal, meant to improve the quality of life of all citizens and to foster the city’s internationalisation and local capacity.
Designed to reflect upon the tensions and opportunities generated by globalisation through dialogue, debate, experimentation and celebration, the Forum is an international event aiming at improving social equality in the world by supporting sustainable human development and exploring new ways of solving cultural and ethnic conflicts.
The Universal Forum of Cultures thus acts as a catalyst for long term objectives regarding sustainability, peace, cultural diversity and cohabitation issues.
The Forum is designed to be an additional step in a city’s vision for future development, and the occasion to foster programmes and reforms designed to leave both tangible and intangible lasting marks on the city. As the Forum is a living project in constant evolution, the Forum Foundation gathers both good practices and difficulties encountered in each edition.
Cities and their citizens nowadays build the social, cultural, technological and economic agendas, and they constitute the main driving force behind global development. Cities jointly interact, competing and learning from one another; cities help other cities to improve their urban management, democratic practices and social cohesion, to promote and build their identities, guaranteeing fair competition, wider access to basic services and the improvement of everyone's quality of life.
The Universal Forum of Cultures was born to take part in this line of behaviour as a cultural event linked to an urban remodelling process, integrated within an initiative to improve the quality of life of all citizens and to promote dialogue as the basis for understanding among people.
The urban renovation process has great potential to help an urban community overcoming its social challenges, and to contribute to the host city’s consolidation in regards to the global economy. |
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