The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday May 21st, 2023 – World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
Held every year on 21 May, the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development celebrates not only the richness of the world’s cultures, but also the essential role of intercultural dialogue for achieving peace and sustainable development. The United Nations General Assembly first declared this World Day in 2002, following UNESCO’s adoption of the 2001 Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, recognizing the need to “enhance the potential of culture as a means of achieving prosperity, sustainable development and global peaceful coexistence.”
World Day for Cultural Diversity, for Dialogue and Development by Rene Wadlow
In December 2002, the United Nations General Assembly, in Resolution 57/249, declared that 21 May each year should be the World Day for Cultural Diversity, for Dialogue and Development. The Day was created as a response to the destruction of the Buddha statues of Bamiyam in Afghanistan in 2001.
Thus the day has a double theme. The broader aim is to create an enabling environment for dialogue and understanding among cultures. Achieving a true rapprochement of cultures must be nourished by a culture of peace and non-violence and sustained by respect for human rights.
The second theme, closely linked to the destruction of the Buddha statues is the protection of the cultural heritage of humanity at the time of armed conflict. In light of the subsequent destruction of UNESCO selected heritage of humanity sites in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Mali, I will stress the protection aspect by looking at the post-World War I efforts of Nicholas Roerich as an example of non-governmental mobilization.
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Sweet Nectar #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“I drink from your red lips
And you drink from mine
Love’s sweet nectar
And elixir of life,
Love the sustaining
Force of the universe
That makes all life possible
And dissolves thoughts
Of mortality into
Forgetfulness.”
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Ovi Bookshelves: Mother and daughter by D. H. Lawrence
“…she was head of a department in a certain government office, held a responsible position, and earned, to imitate Balzac and be precise about it, seven hundred and fifty pounds a year.”
‘Mother and Daughter’ can be read as one of Lawrence’s diatribes against women. Two women do their best to get along without men but in the end, as Lawrence always proposed, a woman cannot be fulfilled without a dominant man, however unsuitable he may be.
1st Published: October 1929
February 2022
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A fistful of cactus #55 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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