Tolerance has two faces [Archives:2008/1131/Community]
February 21 2008
Christelle Sadeghi and Josiane Bechara
As the world enters a new age of enlightenment both technologically and intellectually, conflicts plague the earth while large distances between continents vanish as a result of a newly emerging global community. The amalgamation of people with different cultural backgrounds, traditions and values enriches this community, yet it also contributes to the appearance of ideological deadlocks and collisions. The result is a multitude of vast cultural clefts separating people today. The consequential dilemmas have instigated a search for a process of peace-making through the promotion of tolerance.
UNESCO's Declaration of the Principles of Tolerance states that “tolerance is respect
