Talk:United Nations Alliance of Civilizations

message: Considering the depth of the  Danish cartoons Controversy article, this stub should be of interest to Wikipedians and considered worthy of expansion. Some better dates, details, listing of participants, etc. would be nice.  Mind you, as a current event, the AoC has garnered only limited media attention. Nevertheless, it seems to be an important development. Spir 06:52, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Should Be Expanded

message: The other "alliances of civilizations" (lowercase) are not exactly related to the main topic of this article... (mind you, most people would probably hope that the U.N.-sponsored "Alliance" doesn't overlap too much with this other "alliance" ) ...that said, it's an interesting topic, and if it's going to be mentioned anywhere, I suppose this is the place to mention it.   Or else it could be included in the Holocaust denial article, as a recent development and meeting of the fringe West with the mainstream Middle East. Spir 03:12, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Initiatives

message: How can the AoC be both a UN initiative and Spanish PM Zapatero's initiative (as co-sponsored by Turkish PM Erdogan)? I'd consider rephrasing it to the AoC being "Spanish PM Zapatero's initiative under the auspices of the UN", being this standard wording as per International Public Law (specifically Treaty Law and International Organisations' Law).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.27.137.165 (talk) 17:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  UN Initiative 

message: I have nothing against discussing the so-called "Armenian Genocide", but I don't think an article about the Alliance of Civilizations is the appropriate venue for this subject. Besides, what is the relation between fighting extremism and recognizing the genocide? Where's the duplicity?
--186.140.199.65 (talk) 16:16, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Vladimir Frolov (talk) 07:54, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Misplaced comment

message: Thought I'd better post here before I go ahead and change the name.  The UNAOC website refers to the organisation as the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and as the UN Alliance of Civilizations or UNAOC.   Bromley86 (talk) 17:56, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page name change 

message: The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations is a United Nations initiative that aims to improve understanding and co-operative relations among nations and
peoples across cultures and religions and, in the process, to help counter forces that fuel polarisation and extremism, including ‘clash of civilisations’ theories that the world is made up of mutually exclusive cultures, religions, or civilisations, historically distinct and destined for confrontation.
=United Nations Alliance of Civilisations Report (Clark, 2008b). The link is dead but the point still stands and that is that the UN is propmoting social constructionist theories of behaviour?Yonk (talk) 20:19, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm tagging the article for npov. This organisation / "initiative" is set up by a select group of countries to promote a particular pov that is advantageous to those countries or to politicians or governments or ideologies within those countries - yet almost all the content in the article is either unsourced or comes from the organisation's own publications and press releases. This leads to grave suspicions that it is not being reported about from a neutral pov. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 20:08, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the POV tag. 'Grave suspicions' is not a good reason to tag this article as NPOV. It sounds like Tiptoethrutheminefield, who is now banned, simply disagreed with the mission of this initiative. JECE (talk) 01:21, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversy - Promoting Social Constructionist Theories of Behaviour