The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
AGA KHAN IVA 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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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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