The North-South Centre will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary, from November 2009 to May 2010.

One of the Celebrations of the North South Center’s 20^th Anniversary, under the motto “One world, our world”, will be to select 20 personalities who have contributed in a remarkable way to intercultural dialogue- 20 bridge builders of the story of humanity. At the University on youth and Development happening at Mollina we made the same challenge, we asked the participants, from all over the world, to name their bridge builder. Here we present a list with  some of the results.

Ban ki-moon 

Barack Obama

James Brown

John Lennon

Martti Ahtisaari

Mahatma Gandhi

Nelson Mandela

None

Others

Paulo Freire

Peter Garrett

Símon Bolívar

University on Youth and Developement’s participants

Zeca Afonso