Siddharth Chatterjee

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Cultural Diplomacy, Building Resilience, and Sustainable Development By Siddharth Chatterjee (Chief Diplomat, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent)

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For me, the bottom line is building resilience. That is about building sustainable development- building resilience, investing in risk reduction, but all of it underpinned by an attention to youth and women, and finally about making sure that there is human dignity. I think all this becomes then a vehicle that allows sustainable development to take place, and there is no sense of marginalization and inequality...

- The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy in Geneva 2012; Geneva, Switzerland; June 13th, 2012