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STORY: RIYADH / ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS YOUTH
TRT: 04:38
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 DECEMBER 2025, RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
1. Wide shot, city view
2. Wide shot, conference room
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):
“If we, our generation failed, you should not fail. You are much better equipped, you are much better prepared, you are much better, you know, committed to have a better world.”
4. Med shot, participants clapping
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Mahmoud, Lebanon, Fellowship Programme 2022:
“Peace is the difference between having a home, and watching it being destroyed or disappear. This is what I am experiencing.”
6. Med shot, participants
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Mahmoud, Lebanon, Fellowship Programme 2022:
“I value, despite we might not have the same beliefs, or I don't believe that what others believe in, but I value this, this faith, and I feel it's my mission to protect other people's faiths, because it will reflect on my faith as well feeling it being product protected.”
8. Wide shot, UNAOC forum sign
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Mahmoud, Lebanon, Fellowship Programme 2022:
“Resilience is not automatic; it doesn't come on its own. It needs collaboration. It needs inspiration. It needs real support, not just by funds, but by continuity of this work.”
10. Med shot, UNAOC forum sign
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Mahmoud, Lebanon, Fellowship Programme 2022:
“My message for the youth is to keep doing what you're doing, regardless of where you are, regardless how small it is, because I believe we rise by lifting each other. I might have suffered, or I might have gone through a hard time losing my village, living the war, from afar not knowing if my family will survive the next day, yet I'm determined that there will be a change. It's a mission to all of us.”
12. UNAOC forum sign
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Mahmoud, Lebanon, Fellowship Programme 2022:
“To me, faith is something that helps brings peace to our souls, and to me also faith is something that we can use. Its mission was already there to bring peace between communities, whether in the Quran or other religion.”
14. Med shot, Ana Kuprava
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ana Kuprava, Georgian, Young Peacebuilders programme 2025:
“I realized how different we are across the world, but also how many similarities we have, and that it's important to not hide them. our cultures and our identities are something that make us so unique that they have to be celebrated every single day instead of being hidden. And I think that diversity and intercultural dialog is meaningful in a way that it creates much more safe environment, brings a lot of peace to the world and lot of diversity.”
16. Med shot, Ana Kuprava
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Yesayan, Armenian, Young Peacebuilders programme 2025:
“Peace starts from us. We need to stand up. We need to speak up. We need to stand for each other. And we are the change makers of today, and we are there to take that action, to do that right now, not to hesitate, not to be shy, and everyone without any exception, like everyone, can do that if they really, really want.”
18. Med shot, Maria Yesayan
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Shahim Afandiyeva, Azerbaijani, Young Peacebuilders programme 2025:
“I believe it's really important to create a safe space for the youth just to listen to them and without judgment. And that was a key part of our project, and we just explored the tools of non-violent communication, how it can be built with our even a daily discussion and through our neighbors as well.”
20. Med shot, Shahim Afandiyeva
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Shahim Afandiyeva, Azerbaijani, Young Peacebuilders programme 2025:
“I believe, with even limited resources, it's always possible to act and to react to extremism, and always starts with education, intercultural dialog, inter religious dialog, and it's comes from the diversity of the audience that you're living for. And I would like to mention, and the key message will be like, I think the diversity is not something that we need to be scared of, it's something beautiful that we need to be proud of, and we need to coexist with that.”
22. Med shot, Shahim Afandiyeva
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Shahim Afandiyeva, Azerbaijani, Young Peacebuilders programme 2025:
“Even with small actions, individual initiatives, just for cross border collaboration that we just recently did, we can just build the blocks of the piece. It starts with just very small actions, not just from the top. You.”
24. Med shot, Ana Kuprava, Maria Yesayan, Shahim Afandiyeva
To celebrate the achievements and impact of young people who are actively promoting peace through intercultural and interreligious dialogue, UNAOC hosted today (15 Dec) a special “Youth Event” as part of the 11th UNAOC Global Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The event serves as a dynamic and inclusive space where young people from all over the world come together to exchange, share and learn from each other’s experiences.
It is an opportunity to reflect on the importance of intercultural dialogue through lived experiences, and how it contributes to building peaceful societies in diverse contexts.
The event is designed to showcase the diverse experiences, innovative project, and insights of young people – including alumni of various UNAOC programmes who are actively engaged in intercultural dialogue and peacebuilding.
