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The fourth seminar in the Unlearning Intolerance seminar
series, which coincided with the sixtieth anniversary of the
Nuremberg Trials, focused on genocide, its prevention, the
punishment of war criminals and raising public awareness.
It included the reflections of someone who suffered personal
loss from the 1994 Rwandan genocide, as well as those of a
Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
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Press Release
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The fifth seminar in the "Unlearning Intolerance"
seminar series of the United Nations Department of Public
Information (DPI), entitled "Cartooning for Peace",
will focus on the nature of editorial cartooning and the responsibility
of cartoonists in promoting peace issues. The anger and divisiveness
engendered by the publication of the caricature of Prophet
Mohammed and the recent controversial exhibit on the Holocaust,
suggest both a sense of the power and the necessity of responsibility,
in the art of cartooning. The choice of this particular topic
at the present time will, we hope, offer another opportunity
for the United Nations to be a forum where difficult, but
necessary, questions are raised and addressed, not only to
suggest answers but to spur non-confrontational thought, debate,
and enquiry.
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Programme and Seminar Resources:
If you would like to be informed of upcoming seminars, send
us an e-mail at unchronicle@un.org.
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