dialogue among the cultures

To promote the dialogue among the different cultures creating meetings and ambits of interchange where the values, ideas and beliefs of people can meet each other, not only to make one's own culture known, but also to build a dialogue among the great variety and richness of lifestyles and therefore to find the common points that, above every difference, we believe are in the heart, in the center of different peoples and persons.

"[...] The humanist attitude is common to different cultures in certain stages of their history and it is characterised by:
1- Location of the human being as the central value;
2- Affirmation of the equality of all human beings:
3- Recognition of personal and cultural diversity;
4- A tendency to develop knowledge beyond that accepted as the absolute truth:
5- Affirmation of freedom of ideas and beliefs and
6- Rejection of violence".
(from the conference of Silo "Universalist Humanism")