|  Ten years after the adoption of the “Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace” by the U.N. General Assembly, Fundación Cultura de Paz and IPS News Agency have launched a series of articles by renowned international figures who will reflect on the “Culture of Peace” and its media, education, youth, religious, environmental and human rights dimensions.
Fundación Cultura de Paz is headed by former UNESCO Director General and current Chair of the IPS Board of Directors Federico Mayor Zaragoza.
This initiative goes beyond commemorative activities, and aims at creating a space for reflection and the promotion of the necessary transformations at all levels to move from a culture of imposition, force and war to a culture of dialogue, justice, cooperation and peace.
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall and in the mist of more than twenty armed conflicts currently causing thousands of deaths every year - from Somali civil war to the drug war in Mexico - the moment could not be more momentous.
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The culture and economy of war and the hegemony of the "globalisers" have been a catastrophic failure and the cause of incalculable levels of suffering, hunger, and extreme poverty. A "new beginning" is needed urgently, writes Federico Mayor, president of the Culture of Peace Foundation and former Director General of UNESCO.
