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STORY: RIYADH / MORATINOS ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS
TRT: 04:29
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 DECEMBER 2025, RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
1. Travel shot, city street
2. Close up, UNAOC Global Forum sign
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, United Nations / High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC):
“We are one humanity in a multipolar world, so we have to really integrate that. How? We have to start a full dialog. If people don't listen to each other, if the people don't respect each other, how are you going to accept changes, reform, you know, different ways of different agencies, structures of the international governing body to adapt and to respond to the challenge of today? And that is what I think we are going to start here in Riyadh.”
4. Wide shot, city view
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, United Nations / High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC):
“Hate is back. Of course, conflict, differences, enemies, adversary, there will be always, but what is now much more present and is extremely dangerous is hate.”
6. Wide shot, city view
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, United Nations / High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC):
“So, hate speech is the beginning because is how you create this kind of discourse. So, for that reason, the Alliance is taking so much attention to all the program and projects to eliminate, you know, this hate speech and to create a contra argument, a contra narrative. And that, for that reason, youth is one of elements, and that's the reason we have a full segment of young people discussing it because it's not the future, is their present today, they are the ones who have to, you know, they are the virtual generation.”
8. Wide shot, city view
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, United Nations / High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC):
“Peace has been practically forgotten. We use the word many time, but it has been substituted by the concern about security. Everybody is much more concerned about security than about peace, and we will not get security without peace. So, the young people, the citizen of the world, have to decide that the 21st Century will be the last century where there will be wars and conflict, and I think that can be done only through international institution, because you have to have some international institution that could really decide how to consolidate or how to achieve peace.”
10. Med shot, city view
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, United Nations / High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC):
“Save the humanity and save the humanity mean, to save the 100,000 people that have been killed in Gaza, Ukraine, in Sudan, that is the most important thing. Peace with ‘capital P, and no security. Security only brings need of more security, more war, more militarization, more expenditure in weaponize the society.”
12. Wide shot, city view
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, United Nations / High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC):
“We are living in a new world—a multipolar world that seeks to integrate into the multilateralism of the 21st century. The Alliance provides a platform where dialogue, understanding, and mutual acceptance among all actors and entities can find a space for coexistence and shared understanding.”
14. Wide shot, city view
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Ángel Moratinos, Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia, United Nations / High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC):
“We believe in dialogue—constructive dialogue—as the first step, because what we are proposing is an alliance. The difference between dialogue among civilizations and the Alliance of Civilizations is that dialogue is about listening to one another; an alliance is about commitment—commitment to a common agenda. First, we listen, then we understand the other, and then we come together to build a better world, together.”
16. Travel shot, city street
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, High Representative for the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC), said, “Hate is back” and “it’s dangerous.”
In an interview today (13 Dec) ahead of the 11th Global Forum of the Alliance, which opens in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday (14 Dec), Miguel Moratinos urged youth everywhere to reclaim peace as a global priority.
The future depends on a new generation willing to choose dialogue over division and humanity over hatred, he said.
The Alliance is a leading UN platform for intercultural dialogue.
As the forum marks 20 years since its creation, Moratinos reflected on how the world has changed over the past two decades.
When the Alliance was established in 2005 as an initiative by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the international order was unipolar.
Today, it is multipolar, with emerging powers in the Arab world, Asia, Africa and Latin America demanding to be seen and heard.
The Alliance is uniquely positioned to bring them and everyone else to the same table, he insisted.
Moratinos acknowledged, however, that the world has become more complex. He sees this as a challenge that demands deeper commitment to listening, dialogue and understanding.
According to Moratinos, “Hate is back” and it’s “dangerous.”
Turning to one of the Alliance’s chief concerns, he spoke about the resurgence of hate speech, especially online.
He warned that hate begins with words but leads to exclusion, violence, and conflict.
To combat it, the Alliance is investing in programmes that promote counter-narratives and encourage understanding.
And he said young people are central to those efforts.
Moratinos also said the world has become consumed by security and in the process, it has forgotten peace.
“Everybody is much more concerned about security than about peace,” he said.
“But you will not get security without peace.”
He pointed to the heavy human toll of the conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan, and insisted that the world must refocus on what truly matters: saving humanity.
“Peace with a capital ‘P,’” he said, must be the defining message of the Riyadh forum and the guiding principle for the generations to come.
And he believes it is young people who can make that vision real. Only they, he said, can decide that the 21st century will be the last century scarred by war.
Moratino said, “We are living in a new world—a multipolar world that seeks to integrate into the multilateralism of the 21st century. The Alliance provides a platform where dialogue, understanding, and mutual acceptance among all actors and entities can find a space for coexistence and shared understanding.”
He concluded, “We believe in dialogue—constructive dialogue—as the first step, because what we are proposing is an alliance. The difference between dialogue among civilizations and the Alliance of Civilizations is that dialogue is about listening to one another; an alliance is about commitment—commitment to a common agenda. First, we listen, then we understand the other, and then we come together to build a better world, together.”
