The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
AGA KHAN IVCanada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.
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While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.
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