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2006 BUILDING BRIDGES AWARD PRESS RELEASE:
Tuesday 15th January 2008
2006 BUILDING BRIDGES AWARD PRESENTED AT 1ST ANNUAL ALLIANCE OF CIVILISATIONS FORUM IN SPAIN
The AMSS 2006 Building Bridges Award has been jointly presented to Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriquez Zapatero and Prime Minister Recep Tayyib Erdogan at the First Annual Alliance of Civilisations Forum on 15th January 2008. The event took place in Madrid, Spain. The presentation was made by Dr. Anas Al-Shaikh-Ali, Chairman of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (UK).
The AMSS (UK) Building Bridges Award recognises and highlights the outstanding achievements of individuals who have made a significant contribution either to their field of expertise, or to the promotion of social harmony, or to inter-cultural and interfaith dialogue.
Living and working together in diversity is a challenge and religious beliefs and differences in cultures can sometimes give rise to deep-seated negativities. The Alliance of Civilizations Project is a superb initiative to generate understanding, respect, and awareness, through promoting interfaith dialogue, conflict resolution and intellectual discourse. Its aim to foster a culture of global peaceful co-existence, and thereby international stability, is a credit to its visionaries. This award pays tribute to Prime Minister Zapatero’s proposal and Prime Minister Erdogan’s co-sponsoring of The Alliance of Civilizations Project.
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[2] Award presented to Juan Luis Rodriquez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain (second from right).
[3] R.T. Erdogan (left), J.L.T. Zapatero (right) and Dr A. Al-Shaikh-Ali (centre).
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