Unesco At 75: Building Peace Through Culture, Science, And Education

Unesco At 75: Building Peace Through Culture, Science, And Education

Its slogan is carved in stone in ten languages in its Paris headquarters: "Since conflicts begin in the minds of men, the defences of peace must be erected in the brains of men."



On Friday, Forest Whitaker, Renaud Capuçon, Angelique Kidjo, Aryana Sayeed, Farrah el Dibany, the group Joussour, Ray Lema, and Laurent de Wilde attended a ceremony in Paris to commemorate the institution's 75th anniversary, as did a large number of people from the worlds of science and culture, including Forest Whitaker, Renaud Capuçon, Angelique Kidjo, Aryana Sayeed, Farrah Several notable personalities and artists will be available through video.

They travelled through the minds and thinking of some of modern history's greatest intellectuals as part of the celebrations, including anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, who made a plea against racism in 1952, and Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ, who called for the protection of African oral traditions in 1960.