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UAE launches global initiative for tolerance

Xinhua, October 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched here on Saturday a global initiative for tolerance, the first of its kind in the Middle East to do research, consultations and studies to promote tolerant values among peoples, Dubai daily Gulf news reported.

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai also launched an International Institute of Tolerance and an award scheme as part of the initiative.

The award scheme is said to honor global figures of tolerance in the field of human intellect, literary creativity and aesthetic arts.

The institution, also the region's first of its kind, is set up to "establish the value of tolerance among young Arabic generations," said Sheikh Mohammed on his Twitter account.

Working on tolerance-related researches and reports as one of its aims, the institution will also cooperate with other global cultural institutions in the Arab world to promote the "values of tolerance."

Social studies will be conducted on root causes of intolerance, isolation and sectarianism, which will support Arab researchers and global specialists on the topic of tolerance, said the report.

The Gulf state was a model for tolerance as it hosts people from more than 200 nationalities, said Shaikha Lubna Al-Qasimi, UAE Minister of State for Tolerance. Endit