19May2012

Rhodes Forum

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About Rhodes Forum

Every autumn since 2003 the ancient Greek island of Rhodes hosts a session of the World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilization" called the Rhodes Forum that brings together public figures and statesmen, academics, religious figures and representatives of the arts, mass media and business spheres from all over the world. The sessions of the WPF "Dialogue of Civilizations" proved the urgency and efficacy of the Forum by brining the focus of world public opinion to the problems of intercultural dialogue and the need to work out instruments to make interaction among cultures and civilizations possible. The results achieved by the Forum give a hope for further harmonization of international relations and strengthening of stability in the world.

International Community

The participants of the Forum’s programs or Rhodes Forum claim that the dialogue of cultures and civilizations is quite possible. According to Vladimir Yakunin, the World Public Forum was constantly working in an international atmosphere of events that seemingly proved quite the opposite. But meeting at the Forum’s events the representatives of different civilizations have reaffirmed each time that beyond political sphere a dialogue on the level of civil society is not only desirable and necessary, but it is also practically possible. "Now the logic of Forum’s development has led us to the need of making this dialogue more substantial; in a way that would generate the functioning structures of a dialogue. Dialogue of Civilizations is called upon to develop a new culture of international partnership, co-operation and interaction, it has to foster new values and bring in new goals to the international community" — said Vladimir Yakunin.

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World Public Forum "Dialogue of Civilizations"

The World Public Forum (WPF) “Dialogue of Civilizations” is a deliberative-consultative body that unites into a single network various international and national nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), representatives of public and state institutions, civil society organizations and faith-based groups, academics, representatives of cultural, spiritual, business, and media spheres from different countries, members of diverse civilizations and cultural traditions, and individuals who share the principles of openness mutual respect which form the basis of the contemporary dialogue of civilizations.

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Marguerite Lottin (Italy), President, NGO “Associazione Interculturale Griot”

born in Douala Cameroon
Since 1980 lives in Rome, Italy
Studies at the Statistics Faculty of “La Sapienza” University in Rome.
1984-93, head of financial office at the Cameroon Embassy in Rome.
1993-96, head of the immigration office at the FENEAL-UIL national trade union.
In 1998 founder and president of the NGO “Associazione Interculturale Griot”, a Rome-based non-profit organization in defence of freedom, equality, solidarity and in opposition to any form of racism and discrimination to promote initiatives of educational and cultural formation in Italy and in African countries.
Since 2001 leader of the African Diaspora and a responsible of the Network of the African Women in Italy.
Since 2003 elected member of the Immigrants Council (Consulta Cittadini Immigrati Comune di Roma) of the City of Rome.
Since 2005 elected member of the Immigrants Council of the Lazio Region.
In 2007 member of the Italian Foreign Ministry delegation to the conference on Women Rights in Bamako, Mali.
Spokeswoman of the NOPPAW campaign for the “Nobel Peace Price 2011 for African Women”

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