Question

With reference to UNESCO, answer the following questions:

1. What were the objectives of the formation of UNESCO?
2. How is the development of education, science and culture related to peace?
3. What efforts have been made by UNESCO to preserve cultural heritage?

Answer 1

1. UNESCO's objectives: UNESCO's primary goal is to promote international cooperation via education, science, culture, and communication in order to promote world peace and security. This is done to increase respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights for all people.
2. Promoting education, the scientific spirit, and enhancing culture helps to spread peace and harmony around the globe in the following ways:
   1. Education empowers people with information and motivates them to create a better society.
   2. Education promotes economic progress and stability.
   3. It is also a tool for fostering worldwide understanding and peace.
   4. Science encourages humans to constantly question superstitions.
3. UNESCO's efforts to safeguard cultural heritage include:
   1. the provision of technical advice and assistance, as well as equipment and finances for the preservation of monuments and other works of art. It has created a world heritage list to designate monuments and sites that should be safeguarded.
   2. It seeks to safeguard the world's heritage of books, works of art, and rare manuscripts.
   3. It encourages artistic creations in literature and the fine arts.
   4. It focuses on cultural development through the medium of film.
   5. It sends cultural missions to other countries to establish contacts that can promote peace and prosperity.