Forum d'Avignon 2013 : Culture, a factor of peace?
Does culture truly detain the virtues of a factor of peace and social cohesion with which it is generally attributed? As economic challenges become further exacerbated, is the current cultural discourse a legitimate alibi, a dominating presence or a dynamic force for the conversing individual and collective identities in our world (linguistic, territorial, social, national)? History has shown that culture does not stand as an obstacle to both acts of barbarism and heightened communitarianism; on the contrary, culture is most often the origin of these occurrences. Is the coexistence of these different groups a worthy utopia?
"Each generation believes itself destined to recreate the world. My generation, however, knows that it will not, that being said, its mission might be even larger in scope. It might consist of preventing the world from falling apart". Albert Camus, acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, Stockholm
With the participation of : Elie Barnavi, Anwar Abu Eisheh, Sana Ghenima, Liza Donnelly, Plantu
