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Peace requires patience

March 31, 1998 16.11  
"We should renew our compromise with Gandhi's notion of non-violence as a time consuming process that requires patience," said Karan R. Sawhny, representative of India. "Nowadays we have glorified violence through media, so the cultural peace project of UNESCO is of outmost importance," he said during his intervention at the conference this afternoon.

"Culture concerns questions related to fine arts but also to issues of civilization such as ethics, human values and the aim to resolve conflict crisis. We have to look at this issues from different points of view, bearing in mind all that we have learned from history. There are a few relevant concepts which I would like to emphasize here concerning the development of a culture of peace. First of all the necessary patience to deal with the complex process that we are talking about. There are other things like the necessary balance, sense of reality and responsibility of ourselves, which we should try to keep alive."

 

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