Active Role of UN in Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue.

 

The United Nations has been playing a very active and important role to promoteinterreligious dialogue by preparing and adapting many resolutions. The UN has played a very active role by stressing continuously that interfaith initiatives can ensure rich cultural diversity to make the world more secure and to increase the culture of peace. One important initiative of the UN is the adaptation by the General Assembly of draft resolution A/61/L.60 entitled “High-Level Dialogue on Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding andCooperation for Peace,” on 25 May 2007. In this resolution, the UN has considered as a great need the Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding and Cooperation for Peace and this has attracted increased attention amongst governments, UN agencies, religious communities, spiritual movements, civil society, and humanists at the beginning of the 21st century. The objectives of the “High-Level Dialogue” have been to strengthen efforts of interreligious and intercultural understanding and cooperation by engaging a variety of actors and constituencies, especially in government, civil society, and the United Nations system. These three parties have also been at the core of the Tripartite Forum on Interfaith Cooperation for Peace formed after the 2005 Conference on Interfaith Cooperation for Peace. The High-Level Dialogue further has been continuously seeking to promote a culture of peace and dialogue among civilizations; advance multi-stakeholder coalitions, including the private sector on related issues, further strengthen the Alliance of Civilizations initiative and translate shared values into action in order to achieve sustainable peace in the 21st century.