Promoting Peaceful Coexistence and Common Citizenship

[ 68 ] — INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE FOR PEACE — hank you very much. Working with partners is a strategic decision for KAICIID. Actually, if we think carefully about KAICIID’s man- date, which is the promotion of interreligious and intercultural dialogue, we will immediately realise that for that to happen, we need to widen the spectrum of our contacts and our interlocutors as much as we can. We get in contact with partners and, through those part- ners, we get in contact with new partners, and through them with more and more interlocutors. That is the rationale of the partnership that we have established with many institu- tions. Some of them are represented here in the panel today. In this exercise of identifying partners with whom we can work, I think that it is important to have knowledge — to know who is who and to know who is working in the same field of interreligious dialogue. From that point of view, I want to acknowledge the work that my colleagues at KAICIID have been doing for the past four years with the Peace Mapping Programme and the subsequent Dialogue Knowledge Hub. Under this initi- ative, we have managed to identify more than 400 different institutions, units, centres, and universities, which are also working in interreligious and intercultural dialogue. The Dialogue Knowledge Hub is an open-access pro- gramme, meaning that you can access the initiative through our website and you can consult and use it for the purpose of contacting those institutions working in that field. Also it’s a live programme, which means you can contribute to the various e-resources by adding new institutions or initi- atives in the field. In today’s panel, we have representatives from intergov- ernmental organizations, including the UN, the European Union and some friends from the African Union. I want to highlight that those three intergovernmental organizations Ambassador Alvaro Albacete T