World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development
The World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development (MONDIACULT)[a] is the flagship high-level political conference on cultural policy of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),[1] described as the "world’s biggest cultural policy conference".[2] It was first held in 1982 in Mexico, and re-launched in 2022.[3] MONDIACULT is now intended to take place every four years.[4] History and BackgroundFirst Conferences on Cultural PolicyIn 1982, the first World conference on cultural policy, first of its kind was orgenised by the UNESCO in Mexico City, Mexico.[3] The conference affirmed culture as a fundamental dimension of development, and the need for cultural policies at the national level. Between 1988 and 1998, the World Decade for Cultural Development followed, helping in the development of landmark international policy frameworks and guidelines on the safeguard and promotion of culture and cultural diversity.[5] In 1998, in Stockholm, Sweden, the UNESCO Stockholm Conference on Cultural Policies for Development defined a new global agenda of cultural policies for development. Major outcomes of that conference included a focus on cultural diversity, the role of culture in human development, and on cultural industries.[3][6] A decade of Treaties on CultureAfter these two conferences, a series of international legal texts were produced.[6] In 2001, UNESCO released the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity.  Two years later, the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was approved, committing to "safeguarding living heritage and placing it on equal footing with built and movable heritage, noting that it constitutes the mainspring of cultural diversity and contributes to anchoring culture in development from a human-centered perspective."[3] The Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions followed in 2005. Second round of Conferences on Cultural PolicyMONDIACULT 2022From 28 to 30 September 2022, in an effort to renew and expand the global cultural agenda, UNESCO convened MONDIACULT 2022, again in Mexico City. The conference gathered over 150 states and resulted in the adoption of a Final Declaration recognizing culture as a global public good and calling for its inclusion in the post-2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.[4][7] The MONDIACULT 2022 Final Declaration also instructed the UNESCO Director-General to reconvene the Conference every four years, starting in 2025, as well as the preparation of a "Global Report on Cultural Policies" to be presented at each MONDIACULT conference.[4][8] MONDIACULT 2025Pursuant to the 2022 Declaration, a new world conference on cultural policy is scheduled to take place in 2025 in Barcelona, Spain. It is expected to build on the 2022 outcomes and further institutionalize cultural policy within the global sustainable development framework. The UNESCO has also announced the release of the first Global Report on Cultural Policies.[8] As in 2022, regional consultations were held prior to the Conference, in late 2024 and early 2025.[9] A number of parallel fora are organized alongside the main three-days Conference, including a forum of young people,[10] a meeting of cities and local governments,[11] a forum on the centenary of cannabis prohibition,[12] and the main "Ágora Cívica", a joint initiative promoted by the Barcelona City Council, the Barcelona Provincial Council, the Government of Catalonia, and the Ministry of Culture intended to "bring together key international figures in the defense of cultural rights, such as the UN Special Rapporteur Alexandra Xanthaki and Patrice Meyer-Bisch, promoter of the Fribourg Declaration."[13] Finally, there will be official side-events during the Conference.[14] ObjectivesThe goal of UNESCO is relaunching the MONDIACULT as a quadriennal cycle of conferences is to "[reinvest] in the global policy dialogue in the field of culture, building on its mandate and expertise to foster multilateral cooperation and action."[15] Unlike other UNESCO expert summits or forums, MONDIACULT is ministerial and state-led body. It works on a cross-sectoral basis and is meant to be policy-cohesive across the cultural field, bridging policies on heritage, creativity, education, environment, and rights. The goals of MONDIACULT Conferences are to define the long-term cultural agenda, with links to the broader United Nations system. In 2022, the Conferences stated 5 objectives:
In 2025, the Conferences has 6 themes (Cultural rights; Digital technologies in the culture sector; Culture and education; Economy of culture; Culture and climate action; Culture, heritage and crisis) and two focus areas (Culture for peace; Artificial intelligence and culture) with the following objectives:
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