It stresses the reciprocal interactions and influences between, on the one hand, religions, spiritual and humanistic traditions, and on the other, the need to promote understanding between them in order to challenge ignorance and prejudices and foster mutual respect.

UNESCO: CULTURE

When it comes to performance, our surprising self-ignorance makes understanding where we went right and where we went wrong difficult, to say the least.

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Education, ideas, information - they give us the capacity to lift people out of poverty and to lift people out of the ignorance that makes them fight and kill each other, and to give us an understanding about how to solve the environmental problems of the world.

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