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Prof. Edward Kissi, a professor of genocide and Holocaust studies at the Department of Africana Studies of the University of South Florida, emphasizes the importance of teaching about the Holocaust in African contexts. He observes that the recent genocide in Rwanda, and growing genocidal conditions in other parts of the continent should make the teaching of the Holocaust and genocide in Africa an educational priority. Prof Kissi shares the view that understanding why and how the Holocaust occurred is a way to prepare a modern nation to prevent genocide and its destructive impact on a country's psyche and human capital, while promoting human rights core values and nurturing diversity in African societies.

Mr Adama Deng, Special Adviser of the United Nations for the Prevention of Genocide, explains the role of the United Nations in halting processes of discrimination and violence against groups that may lead to mass atrocities and genocide. He highlights the links between education about the Holocaust, as promoted by UNESCO, and the work of his office in alerting the world about the dangers of genocide today. Mr Dieng was a guest of UNESCO for the 2013 International Day of Commemoration in Memory of Victims of the Holocaust, and gave the keynote speech at the high-level panel discussion "From Holocaust Education to the Prevention of Genocide: What have we learnt from the past?" held at UNESCO headquarters on 28 January 2013, in partnership with his Office

Tuesday, 31 January 2012. UNESCO in partnership with the Shoah Memorial is organizing a symposium entitled "International Dimensions of Holocaust Education" held at UNESCO Headquarters. Samuel Pisar, UNESCO Special Envoy for Holocaust Education and Hannah Rosenthal, Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism for the US Department of State will be among the participants. The conference will be followed by a special ceremony under the theme "Children in the Holocaust". The participants will include the Director General of UNESCO Irina Bokova, President of the Shoah Memorial Eric de Rothschild, an Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer and a Holocaust survivor Henri Borlant. A short film entitled "Hidden Children" by film maker Robert Bober will also be shown. In addition, an exhibition of the Shoah Memorial entitled "The Righteous of France" will be presented on this occasion.

Yehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Bauer is a respected authority on the subjects of the Holocaust, antisemitism and the Jewish resistance movement during the Holocaust,

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Dr Samel Pisar was named Special envoy for Holocaust Education by UNESCO Director-General on 27 January 2012. In his new role, Mr. Pisar will reflect on his commitment to the idea that "the Holocaust, attacked by incendiary demagogues as a 'myth', is an all too real warning for mankind of possible horrors yet to come. For it has revealed, as have more recent genocides and ethnic cleansings, that humans are still capable of the worst as well as of the best, of hatred as well as of love, of madness as well as of genius, and that the unthinkable remains possible. Unless we espouse, through remembrance and education, the core universal values embedded in all great creeds - spiritual and secular - the forces of darkness may return with a vengeance to haunt us again"

An exclusive interview with Sam Nujoma, founding President of the Republic of Namibia, from 1990 to 2005, who speaks about his experience and his insights on gender equality.

Volume 10 of «Multimedia Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences: Greek Philosophy» (MEPS), an encyclopaedia created by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, with the patronage of UNESCO. The encyclopaedia proposes a collection of 1,500 interview-lesson to scholars from 34 countries, featuring leading thinkers addressing fundamental philosophical questions.

The MEPS is composed of 10 volumes --see series below.

Volume 9 of «Multimedia Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences: Greek Philosophy» (MEPS), an encyclopaedia created by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, with the patronage of UNESCO. The encyclopaedia proposes a collection of 1,500 interview-lesson to scholars from 34 countries, featuring leading thinkers addressing fundamental philosophical questions.

The MEPS is composed of 10 volumes --see series below.

Volume 8 of «Multimedia Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences: Greek Philosophy» (MEPS), an encyclopaedia created by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, with the patronage of UNESCO. The encyclopaedia proposes a collection of 1,500 interview-lesson to scholars from 34 countries, featuring leading thinkers addressing fundamental philosophical questions.

The MEPS is composed of 10 volumes --see series below.

Volume 7 of «Multimedia Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences: Greek Philosophy» (MEPS), an encyclopaedia created by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, with the patronage of UNESCO. The encyclopaedia proposes a collection of 1,500 interview-lesson to scholars from 34 countries, featuring leading thinkers addressing fundamental philosophical questions.

The MEPS is composed of 10 volumes --see series below.

Volume 6 of «Multimedia Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences: Greek Philosophy» (MEPS), an encyclopaedia created by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, with the patronage of UNESCO. The encyclopaedia proposes a collection of 1,500 interview-lesson to scholars from 34 countries, featuring leading thinkers addressing fundamental philosophical questions.

The MEPS is composed of 10 volumes --see series below.