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Round table organized by ISESCO on “Education for the Culture of Peace”

The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) held from April 8-10,  2014 at the headquarters of the Houphouët-Boigny Foundation for Peace (Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire) a round table on In the context of preparations for the launch of the ISESCO Regional Center for Education in a Culture of Peace. The purpose of the round table...Continue reading

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Félix Houphouët-Boigny

The founder of modern Côte d'Ivoire

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"Peace is not a word, it is behavior."

"Peace, which constantly needs exhortations, is a continuous acquisition, usually silent."

"The hungry man is not a free man."

"The sanctity of work also ennobles the one who carries the burdens or drives heavy machines, like the one who, in the silence of laboratories or offices, gives his task the best of his thought and care."

"It is easier to make war than to make peace."

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"Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be raised."

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