Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Misnad of Qatar

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SHEIKHA MOZAH: Good morning. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a pleasure to be here today at the Brookings Institute to meet and exchange views with this outstanding group of intellectuals and experts. The Brookings Institute has always been an emboldened think tank which has made valuable contributions to various policy issues and produced quality publications on a range of topics, including the one I wish to address this morning.

In these troubled times, we place great faith in change and reform to better our societies and to nurture social justice. In fact, the very welfare of the global community depends on its member nations and citizens to meet each other with tolerance and understanding. To fulfill this objective will require the popular participation of all its citizens in a democratic sociopolitical environment, and education plays a key role in meeting these goals. Today, I wish to stress to you the urgency of this mission and how we in Qatar are implementing our action plan for development.

Honorable audience, we are witnessing an unprecedented global interchange of people, ideas, and goods that is transforming our world. It is essential that this interchange becomes equitable and the voices of all the world citizens are represented. Human rights organizations urgently remind us that the democracy deficit is an international problem. It has become clear that without democratic channels of participation, citizens may turn to radical or even violent means of having their voices heard.

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