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UNESCO & Jikji UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Legacy World Registered Legacy Jikji, The World Registered Legacy Interview with The Chief of Cheongju Advisory Committee UNESCO/JIKJI Memory of the World Prize Home > Jikji Pavilion > UNESCO & Jikji > UNESCO UNESCO   UNESCO is the specialized institution of the UN for the purpose of the forever peace by promoting international understanding and cooperation in the field such as education, science, culture and communication. Human beings were aware of that, through the past 2 world wars, the direct reason for wars was not political, military or economic conflicts between countries, but intellectual, cultural conflicts from each nation's distrusts and prejudices. As a result, human beings believed that the intellectual elevation and the promotion of mutual understanding were a basis for the peace, and thus UNESCO was established for the purpose of promoting international peace and human beings' welfare, which is declared by the UN Charter, under the mindset that peace should be constructed on human beings' intellectual and moral association. These days, UNESCO is and called another UN consisted of 186 countries. UNESCO is performing a lot of activities through the close cooperative relationship with many international institutions as human beings' ¡¸Intellectual Community¡¹. One of them is and . UNESCO tries to seek for international peace and human beings' welfare through common heritage of mankind. This activities are excellent.