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