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THIRD THIRD UN ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIonS FORUM UN 27-29 MAY, 2010 ALLI RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL an CE OF C IV ILIZ at I on S F O R U M THIRD UN ALLIanCE OF CIVILIZatIonS FORUM 27-29 Ma Y, 2010 27-29 MAY, 2010 RIO DE JanEIRO, BRAZIL G16529_CvrSprds.indd 1 9/16/10 4:46 PM Published by: Alliance of Civilizations Secretariat 405 Lexington Ave, 5th Fl The Chrysler Building New York, NY 10174 USA www.unaoc.org Design by Marc Gagnon, AnvilCreativeGroup.com Photographs of Rio Forum: Aaron Lee Fineman/UNAOC & Government of Brazil Other photographs: UNAOC Printed in the USA by The YGS Group DIsclaIMER This report seeks to capture key elements of the proceedings and discussion during the third Alliance of Civilizations Forum. It does not purport to be a transcript and is necessarily selective. It should not be taken as a complete or authoritative record of any individual statement or intervention, nor expressing the views of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Participants should be consulted directly for an authoritative statement of their views. Copyright © 2010 UN Alliance of Civilizations THIRD UN ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS FORUM CONTENTS Acknowledgments . 5 Preface . 6. Outcomes . 10 Group of Friends — Ministerial Meeting . .18 . Marketplace of Ideas: Champions in Innovation . 20 Youth at the Rio Forum . 24 Plenary Sessions. 29 Thematic Sessions. 42 Pre-Forum Day. 63 Appendices . .78 . G16529UNOAC_CS5.indd 3 9/17/10 11:02 AM THIRD UN ALLIanCE OF CIVILIZatIonS FORUM ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My initial words are indeed to express my profound gratitude to the Brazilian authorities, in particular to President Lula da Silva and Minister of Foreign Affairs Celso Amorim, for hosting the 3rd Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations from 27 to 29 May 2010, in the fabulous setting of Rio de Janeiro, built on a rich fabric of cultural exchanges and cross-fertilization. Secondly, I would like to thank the ever enlarging number of members of the Group of Friends of the Alliance, its many partners and constituencies for their support and help in the preparation of our first annual gathering convened outside Europe. Most of all, I am grateful for all those individuals, mainly from Brazil and the wider region, who joined our debates during the three-day Forum and contributed to deepen its local and regional footing. Last but not least, I want to express my debt to Ambassador José Augusto Lindgren Alves who led the Brazilian team with unusual mastery and tact as well as the members of my secretariat for their outstanding and tireless work to prepare so successful an event. I am grateful, finally, for the exceptional support given by Professor Cândido Mendes in getting the Dialogue Café station operational at his University in close to record speed in order to have it connected with the Lisbon station during the Forum. What a pleasure to work with them all! President Jorge Sampaio, High Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilizations Lisbon/ New York August 2010 TUHIRD N ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS FORUM 5 PREFACE By President Jorge Sampaio, High Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilizations It is with great pleasure that I look back on the 3rd Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, held in Rio de Janeiro from 27 to 29 May 2010, and recall its main achievements as well as the various new initiatives announced on that unique occasion. With several thousand registered participants including political and business leaders, mayors, civil society, youth, journalists, foundations, international organizations, and religious leaders from all around the world, the Rio Forum clearly showed that the UN Alliance of Civilizations has been firmly consolidated as the United Nations’ main platform for global dialogue, aimed at improving understanding and cooperative relations among nations and peoples across cultures and religions. The global scope of the Alliance was also fully Rio made it crystal clear: more than ever, we demonstrated by the Rio Forum. As the first live in one world shaped by intense interaction gathering of its kind organized outside Europe, this among diverse cultural, religious and linguistic event was a test for both the convening capacity of communities. But — to quote one of the participants the Alliance and its worldwide dimension. — “acknowledging and living at ease with the landscape of diversities is very different from Focused on ‘Bridging Cultures, Building Peace,’ the focusing on differences. That is why our challenge is 3rd Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations was an really to create a coherent narrative for diversity and exceptional place for relationship building, for gaining how it can answer the problems of our age instead insights into the world’s most pressing cross-cultural of adding to them”. challenges and for turning ideas into action. 6 T HIRD UN ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIonS FoRUM In Rio, all of us tried to work together to identify at least some of the building blocks of this narrative, and move towards a more pluralistic and inclusive vision — fit for the challenges and the opportunities of our time. In Rio, key questions were addressed: ■ How can we create inclusive societies, founded on the respect for human rights and diversity? ■ What kind of actions do we need to combat intolerance and prejudice? ■ What is the impact of globalization on people’s sense of belonging and identity? ■ How is globalization contributing to bridging divides? ■ How do economic and social inequalities impact relations among diverse communities? ■ What is the role of cities in preventing conflicts among communities? ■ How can we empower people with intercultural skills and competences? ■ What tools do children and young people need to navigate in an increasingly complex and multicultural world? These issues lie at the heart of the work of the UN In addition to a plenary session and various working Alliance of Civilizations, and are relevant to each and meetings organized in partnership with members of every one of us, as recognized by the participants the Alliance (as in the case of UNESCO which kindly in the Rio Forum. They generated lively and prepared a plenary on education), a pre-Forum day wholehearted debates amid occasional controversy. was included in the official program in order to But most of all, the Rio Forum was recognized allow greater participation in and ownership of the as an inclusive platform, bringing together the annual gathering by the members and the various knowledge, experience and energy of a wide range of constituencies of the Alliance. During this event, a partners, all engaged in developing new thinking on wide array of sessions took place. These included making diversity an asset rather than a liability and the first ever meeting of parliamentarians from committed to take action to build mutual trust across around the world on the subject of intercultural cultural divides and foster peace around the world. dialogue organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union; a roundtable on ‘Addressing Islamophobia Furthermore, the Rio Forum was a unique occasion — Unused Opportunities for Mutual Respect and to launch or announce several major new initiatives Inclusion,’ co-organized by the OIC, the Council that have marked the consolidation of the of Europe, the British Council and the Alliance; a Alliance as an action-oriented initiative, building debate focused on setting thematic platforms on a double approach that combines top-down for cooperation, led by the Swiss delegation; the and bottom-up processes. inauguration of the first two Dialogue Cafés through In this respect, let me underline that further to the a joint program connecting Lisbon and Rio de high-level debates held with official delegations, Janeiro, possible thanks to a complex network of particularly the Focal Points meeting and indeed the partnerships involving public and private actors Ministerial meeting, a very positive feature of the such as the multinational CISCO, the Cândido Rio Forum is related to the growing role played by Mendes University in Rio, the Municipality of Lisbon, partners in shaping the content and the activities the European Commission through the European of the Alliance. network GÉANT, the Gulbenkian Foundation and others. THIRD UN ALLIanCE OF CIVILIZatIonS FORUM 7 G16529UNOAC_CS5.indd 7 9/16/10 3:49 PM Another point that is worth underscoring is the key importance of innovative partnerships with international organizations, civil society and the corporate sector to achieve real breakthroughs on the ground. In this regard the set of outcomes of this Forum is so long and rich that it is not possible to go through it comprehensively in this introduction. However, I would like to point out three of the most important: new or renewed MoU or Action Plans were signed with partners of the Alliance (such as UNESCO, OIC, ILO, 1 UNHCR and IRCICA), thus enriching the network of partnerships that will allow new common actions and joint projects to develop in the near future. inauguration of the two first stations in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon of the Dialogue Cafés Global Network 2 (www.dialoguecafe.org), a world première based on a public-private partnership that opens up new avenues for intercultural dialogue and cooperation the announcement of an Online Community on Migration and Integration, a promising new project 3 developed jointly with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), (www.unaoc.org/communities/ migrationintegration) which aims to convene a worldwide community of policy makers, practitioners and civil society activists who work together to improve relations among migrants and host communities. A Forum is not only a moment for announcements As a result of the debates held, it is quite clear that and achievements. Nor is it only a platform to when promoting intercultural dialogue we need to be showcase breakthroughs or evidence of progress.
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