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The key initiatives launched by the UAE since the start of the year reflect the country’s vision to combat extremism and promote openness with other cultures, making it a leading regional and international centre of spreading these values, through hosting major conferences and forums attended by influential intellectuals and scholars.
Specialist events and initiatives organised monthly by government and private authorities and non-profit organisations, along with the efforts of the country’s embassies to promote these events abroad, highlight the sustainability and strengthening of the tolerance and coexistence of the entire Emirati community.
Given the importance of consolidating the values of peaceful coexistence and human brotherhood taken by the UAE as an approach, in September, the Department of Community Development in Abu Dhabi handed over 18 local houses of worship to non-Muslims.
The UAE aims to enrich the community’s knowledge and cultural tolerance and discusses the role of tolerance in establishing community coherence, through holding forums.
Under this framework, the Zayed House for Islamic Culture organised the third edition of the “Tolerance Forum,” under the slogan, “The Role of Tolerance in Social Cohesion” to reinforce cultural interaction and community coherence. During the forum, over 790,000 signed the ‘Covenant For Million Tolerant’. It is expected that the number of participants will exceed one million by the end of November.