“The idea behind setting up UNESCO was the belief that universal peace can be achieved through the
spread of education”- List the objectives of this agency.
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Explanation:
UNESCO's Mission
UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Its constitution was adopted by the London Conference in November 1945, and entered into effect on 4 November 1946 when 20 states had deposited instruments of acceptance.
It currently has 186 Member States.
The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.
To fulfill its mandate, UNESCO performs five principal functions :
Prospective Studies : what forms of education, science, culture and communication for to morrow's world?
The advancement, transfer and sharing of knowledge : relying primarily on research, training and teachig activities.
Standard-setting action : the preparation and adoption of international instruments and statutory recommendations.
Expertise : provided to Member States for their development policies and projects in the form of "technical co-operation".
Exchange of specialized information
Constitution of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Preamble
The Governments of the States Parties to this Constitution on behalf of their peoples declare:
That since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed;
That ignorance of each other's ways and lives has been a common cause, throughout the history of mankind, of that suspicion and mistrust between the peoples of the world through which their differences have all too often broken into war;
That the great and terrible war which has now ended was a war made possible by the denial of the democratic principles of the dignity, equality and mutual respect of men, and by the propagation, in their place, through ignorance and prejudice, of the doctrine of the inequality of men and races;
That the wide diffusion of culture, and the education of humanity for justice and liberty and peace are indispensable to the dignity of man and constitute a sacred duty which all the nations must fulfil in a spirit of mutual assistance and concern;
That a peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements of governments would not be a peace which could secure the unanimous, lasting and sincere support of the peoples of the world, and that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.
For these reasons, the States Parties to this Constitution, believing in full and equal opportunities for education for all, in the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, are agreed and determined to develop and to increase the means of communication between their peoples and to employ these means for the purposes of mutual understanding and a truer and more perfect knowledge of each other's lives;
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