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Article: Reflections on intolerance.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1999
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Insofar as all societies are based on the foundation of shared common traits, be it language, creed or political conviction, it can be argued that they have all sprung from the principle of intolerance.
The international forum on intolerance held in Paris in March 1997 by the Academie Universelle Des Cultures, founded in 1992 by Elie Wiesel to address, as per its charter, 'the issues of the twenty-first Century and in particular the blending of cultures', assembled an impressive list of historians, writers, politicians and Nobel prize winners. The published papers of the forum, L'Intolerance, edited by Francoise Barret-Ducrocq (Grasset, Paris 1998, ISBN ...