In today’s increasingly diverse societies, UNESCO continues to accomplish every day its
fundamental humanist mission to support people in understanding each other and
working together to build lasting peace.
UNESCO also helps to enable people to create and use knowledge for just and inclusive societies.
Towards this end, UNESCO has prioritized training and research in sustainable development, skills
for peaceful relations, good governance, and the prevention of conflict and peace building among
others. Yet, lasting peace rests on a complex and fragile web of
daily practices embedded in local settings and the most
ephemeral encounters that individuals and communities creatively maintain out of the
conviction that they constitute the sustainable conditions for living together in dignity and
shared prosperity. At a time of increasing global challenges and threats,
such as inequality, exclusion, violence and sectarianism worsened
by local tensions and conflicts which undermine humanity’s cohesion,
learning to live together among all members of the global community becomes more topical than ever
before. In today’s increasingly diverse societies,
UNESCO continues to accomplish every day its fundamental
humanist mission to support people in understanding each other and working together to build
lasting peace.