"The
inaugural ceremony which took place last Friday in Paris City Hall, in
the presence of the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the Director of UNESCO
Irina Bokova and of Kacem Afaya, representative of the Tunisian Quartet who received the Peace Nobel Prize in 2015, was a great success.
This
ceremony was the occasion for us to take stock of the expectations that
our initiative has created among many scholars, within many
institutions and, more generally, among many citizens. We hope to be, as
a group, up to the challenge."