Maud de Boer-Buquicchio : “The initiation of intercultural dialogue, a keenly-awaited development”

Addressing the Culture Ministers who are in Strasbourg to discuss their new role in conflict prevention through the initiation of intercultural dialogue, the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, said that conflicts could be neither prevented nor resolved “without a consistent policy capable of guiding people’s choices and helping them deal with the situations that arise”.

“Identifying the roles and new responsibilities of Culture Ministers in initiating intercultural dialogue is a welcome and long-awaited aggiornamento at European level, which will be a milestone in the history of European benchmarking”, she added.