E/CN.4/2003/24 page 3 To consider at greater length in its deliberations the deep intellectual and ethical roots of the culture and mindset of racism and discrimination; To give a predominant role to dialogue between civilizations, cultures and religions, as a maieutic strategy for surmounting all forms of discrimination, exclusion and intolerance; To promote all aspects of education (instruction, in particular in history, ethics, human rights as a universal code of ethics, cultures and the values common to all religions and spiritual traditions) as well as information and intercultural communication; To promote the creative value of pluralism, understood as the recognition, acceptance, and promotion of and respect for diversity. In this context, to promote the concept of identity - an ambivalent notion which may be the legitimate affirmation of a specificity but also the negation of the other.