Experts' takes on Global Strategic Dialogue

Lasting peace must rest on a complex fabric of interrelated values, attitudes and behaviors, required both in the implementation of international treaties and in the course of daily life, with the practice of respect, tolerance, openness, mutual understanding and dialogue. Today, we must do everything to empower present and future generations with skills to exchange, communicate and cooperate across cultural, religious and national boundaries, to become responsible global citizens in a safer world for all.

--Getachew Engida, former UNESCO deputy director-general and co-president of the China-Africa Leadership Development Institute at Tsinghua University