Legal Issues Surrounding the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 189-213
Author(s):  
Sup KIM Yong
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Unesco Convention

Implementing UNESCO’s Convention on Cultural Diversity at the regional level: Experiences from evaluating cultural competence centers

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-525
Author(s):  
Diana Betzler
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Central Region ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Policy Governance ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Cultural Expressions

AbstractThis article deals with the question of whether regional cultural competence centers foster the diversity of cultural expressions and how the objectives of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) Convention on Cultural Diversity are implemented. By introducing the Convention on Cultural Diversity, the conditions of regional cultural policy governance, and the idea of regional cultural competence centers, a framework for evaluation is outlined. The evaluation of four regional cultural competence centers in the Swiss Central Region shows that fostering cultural diversity is complex and has many different approaches and effects. The final discussion concludes that principles such as “interculturality,” “freedom,” and “access for all” under the Convention on Cultural Diversity can promote a diversity of cultural expressions but that these criteria have to be set from outside—for example, by public funding institutions—so that regional actors implement them.

UNESCO, the United Kingdom, and Cultural Diversity after the Millennium

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Asha Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
State Funding ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Post War ◽  
Funded Status ◽  
Minority Ethnic ◽  
Important Site

This final diachronic chapter steps back from the question of literature’s publicly funded status to consider how cultural diversity became an important site of negotiation in the United Kingdom’s dealings with UNESCO. It suggests that cultural diversity was not only a competency developed through post-war state funding but an expansive discourse appropriated by competing geopolitical alliances within UNESCO. The 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions staged the larger tensions between the national and supra-national debates of cultural diversity. For all its flaws, and the United Kingdom’s ongoing ambivalence about UNESCO, the Convention promised to institute a more equitable public culture in ways that the controversy over the 2017 Jhalak Prize for Black Asian and Minority Ethnic writers suggests were sorely needed.

scholarly journals The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity: An Appraisal Five Years after Its Entry into Force

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mira Burri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
International Regime ◽  
Current Implementation ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
Implementation Progress

Abstract:The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions was agreed upon with an overwhelming majority and after the swiftest ratification process in the history of the UNESCO entered into force on 18 March 2007. Now, five years later and with some 130 Members committed to implementing the convention, not only observers with a particular interest in the topic but also the broader public may be eager to know what has happened and in how far has the implementation progress advanced. This is the question that animates this article. It seeks to answer it by giving a brief background to the UNESCO Convention, clarifying its legal status and impact, as well as by looking at the current implementation activities in domestic and international contexts. The article sets this analysis in the frame of international regime complexity insights.

scholarly journals Cultural Diversity: Conceptual Approaches

2018 ◽  
pp. 234-241
Author(s):  
Simion Roșca
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Human Person ◽  
Common Heritage ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Right ◽  
Different Cultures

Cultural diversity is, as biodiversity, an element of the common heritage of humanity, whose defense is an ethical imperative inseparable from respect for the dignity of the human person. The concept of cultural diversity permits the existence of a variety of different cultures that are not, by far, isolated, but interact and intersect at all times. The UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression of 2005 stated that cultural diversity is a defining feature of humanity and is aware of the fact that cultural diversity is a common heritage of humanity, being necessary for humanity just as biodiversity is necessary for nature .     Everyone has the right to participate in cultural life, to have access to culture, has the right to respect for cultural identity and to identify with a cultural community, has the right to cultural, religious and linguistic diversity, the right to freely run cultural activities, etc. In this study the author will attempt to analyze and define the concept of "cultural diversity" as well as its basic culture component. Keywords: cultural diversity, culture, cultural heritage, cultural identity, European Union, humanity, cultural factor

Cultura - parte componentă a relațiilor internaționale ale Uniunii Europene

2020 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Mihaela-Augustina DUMITRAȘCU ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
External Action ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Official Site ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
The Eu

"According to the European Commission, culture and creativity are at the heart of the European project. Cultural diversity is an asset for the EU, but according to the findings of this institution, linguistic and cultural differences have the effect of fragmenting the market. At the same time, Europe's culture and creation sector contributes to economic growth, employment, innovation and social cohesion, the European creation and culture sector being more resilient than other sectors in an economic crisis, accord to the official site of the European Commission. From the point of view of competences, it should be noted that each EU country addresses cultural and audiovisual issues in its own way. EU action is complementary to national measures, bringing a new dimension, these are complementary competences. In the Commission's wording, the information gathered by the EU can be used as a support for national decisions or can provide examples of good practices from which others might inspire. With regard to the EU's cultural objectives, we have to mention the 2007 European Agenda for Culture, a very important document that promotes: cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, culture as a catalyst for creativity and innovation and culture as a component of relations international relations of the EU. An important aspect is also the fact that as part of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, the EU has committed itself to transforming cultural diversity into an essential element of its external action and giving Europe a more active cultural role in international relations. In this article, we will go through EU's competences regarding culture within its borders, but we will also see how this organization addresses culture as an element of its international relations. And then, we will have a brief look at how multiculturalism is currently approached within the EU, in the special and complex context of migration."

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