They are a valuable tool to promote development and strengthen social cohesion.

Preserving history, and cultural heritage both tangible and intangible and all elements which identify local populations and promote social cohesion.

(h) Enhancing social cohesion and solidarity by

His presidency has guaranteed political stability and strengthened social cohesion.

They possessed the tools to foster actions to increase the voice, and policy influence of excluded groups in national agendas, to change stereotypes, promote solidarity and social cohesion.

A new institutional architecture to address social equity and attain social cohesion is urgently called for.

Supporters of Europe s social model claim that what distinguishes it is the importance placed on social cohesion.

This situation has severely tested peace, social cohesion and stability in the country.

It can be given shape by, for example, training imams in Europe, by encouraging mosques to promote social cohesion in their neighborhoods, and by more active participation by Muslims in the public debate.

Acknowledging also that sport and physical education can present opportunities for solidarity and cooperation in order to promote tolerance, a culture of peace, social and gender equality, adequate responses to the special needs of persons with disabilities, intercultural dialogue, social cohesion and harmony,

Politicians know that macroeconomic stabilization and social cohesion can be irreconcilable in the short run.

Equality and social cohesion form the backbone of liberty, justice, and security for European cities.

At the social level, we will help improve access to basic services with a view to enhancing equality and social cohesion.

If the integration experience was not successfully managed, however, it could lead to social and cultural conflict and affect social cohesion.

Yet we continue to believe that social cohesion can be limited to that of the nation.

The human rights situation is also improving, while the efforts to promote national cohesion, reconciliation and tolerance are making progress.

While employment was at the heart of the European Union's social inclusion strategies, many other policies and services were needed to ensure social cohesion.

Conscious of the growing need to promote greater cohesion and understanding between Member States as well as cultures and civilizations at large

Our social cohesion is being severely compromised by challenges such as transnational crime, illicit drugs and HIV AIDS.

This new legislation should help minimize property disputes that have the potential to threaten social peace and cohesion.

Like no other institution, NATO embodies Atlantic cohesion, something that remains essential for any Western effort to promote a degree of international order.

In the years leading up to the crisis, inequality rose in many countries, with worrisome consequences for social cohesion.

Family Cohesion

It also needs to speak with one voice on matters of foreign policy in order to play a more important international role in solving major conflicts and shaping a more peaceful and balanced world order. Finally, the EU needs to promote social cohesion while adapting Europe s social model to globalization s challenges.

Thus, soaring food and fuel prices are likely to upset efforts by governments to improve income distribution and social cohesion.

But the deeper problem is a breakdown in precisely such values and goals that is, a weakening of social cohesion.

They also wondered what evidence there was for the assertion that earlier African political systems had helped maintain social cohesion.

I would include social cohesion as part of the asset base it is the one that is depreciated by excessive inequality.

Reconfirm that there is an urgent need for structural reforms and policies establishing social cohesion both at national and regional levels.

He wondered whether Mauritius, as a multi ethnic society, had any problems related to minorities and how it assured social cohesion.

In several advanced countries, including the US, growth and employment prospects are starting to diverge widely, endangering social cohesion and economic openness.

On a societal level, genetic engineering that only the wealthy can afford would threaten social cohesion by ruling out equality of opportunity.

But markets and capitalist incentives have clear weaknesses in ensuring stability, equity, and sustainability, which can adversely affect political and social cohesion.

Such demand requires a social group to promote it.

Initiatives to promote corporate social responsibility should be voluntary.

After all, financial crises are directly linked to significant output declines and unemployment spikes and, equally important, they often severely damage social cohesion.

Russian society is atomized, with no sense of cohesion, solidarity, or collective drive in any interest group, professional or social, big or small.

For the issue of the family not only involves individual families and their members but has a bearing on social cohesion and stability.

Existing policies to achieve social cohesion are based on the belief that, if uncorrected, the free play of market forces will lead to wide disparities in income and thus intensify social conflict.

Mauritians have chosen a path that leads to higher levels of social cohesion, welfare, and economic growth and to a lower level of inequality.

If the US is eclipsed any time soon, this will more likely be due to its loss of social cohesion and its dysfunctional politics.

The educational revolution is an axis of social cohesion and the road towards equality, the redistribution of income, and the opening of new channels for social mobility, without which democracy will remain incomplete.

On the other hand, in the era of globalization, regions in which internal trade exceeds external trade have better economic outlooks and stronger social cohesion.

The Europeans wanted to achieve their goal through, among other means, further environmental protection and more social cohesion desirable aims, but certainly not growth strategies.

And, in practical terms, it is bound to destroy the social cohesion on which democracy or, indeed, any type of peaceful, contented society ultimately rests.