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Cultural policies under debate
Today, the XVII Forum of Latin American and Caribbean Culture Ministers and Policy Makers, started with 3 presentations on cultural challenges the region faces.
Herman Van Hooff, UNESCO’s Culture Regional Director, presented a paper entitled “Cultural Policies for Diversity and Development”; Sidney Bartley, Culture Director (Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, Jamaica) presented the paper “Towards a New Cultural Policy: Is Cultural Diversity a challenge for cultural policies?”, and Zulma Yugar, Bolivian Plurinational State’s Minister of Culture, talked about “Cultural Integration and a Plurinational State”.
UNESCO’s Culture Regional Director highlighted the importance of culture for Latin America and the Caribbean and pointed out that “culture is a key element for development because it is a mean for knowledge transmission”.
Thus, it is important that new cultural policies aim at promoting cultural diversity, fostering intercultural dialogue, guaranteeing sustainable development, and helping to respect human rights.
He pointed out as challenges for the new cultural policy profile: to guarantee that culture is present in science, education, environment, social cohesion, sustainable development, and that cultural diversity’s respect goes hand in hand with ideological diversity. He also stressed the importance the importance of young people’s participation to build this process.
He also announced 10 recommendations of UNESCO’s Regional Office for the new cultural policy profile: the link between culture and people’s well-being; the use of various knowledge systems; interculturalism and a new civil thinking; institutions that take into account intercultural relations; to strengthen popular culture and the diversity of cultural expressions; an innovative approach to cultural policy, among others.
On the Website of Ecuador’s Ministry of Culture you can find detailed information on the Ministers’ or policy makers’ interventions: http://www.ministeriodecultura.gov.ec
You can also find information on the Forum at UNESCO’s Latin American and Caribbean Culture Portal: http://www.lacult.org/noticias/showitem.php?uid_ext=&getipr=190.25.67.82&lg=1&id=2723
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