Promoting a culture of tolerance and coexistence in the United Arab Emirates

Buti Obaid Saeed AlFalahi, Abdulrahman Abdullah Ali Alkhuraim Alzaabi

Article ID: 8455
Vol 9, Issue 2, 2025


Abstract


The United Arab Emirates is the most involved country in the world in terms of developing community awareness of the value and importance of tolerance, and high-level human solidarity, enhancing it as a community culture, and informing it of a strong institutional framework, legal and legislative frameworks. The research aims to highlight the United Arabian Emirates government’s contribution to promote tolerance in society. The research fellow is descriptive analytic. The research concluded that the UAE government has succeeded to a large extent in establishing the concept of tolerance through its global role in developing the concept of tolerance. The research recommends the need to expand the application of the culture of tolerance in Arab and international societies and benefit from the experience of the United Arab Emirates in promoting the culture of tolerance.


Keywords


tolerance; tolerance culture; radicalism; violence; UAE society; the United Arab Emirates

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