Aga Khan: applauds Sec Clinton’s openness to multi-actor approaches.
Aga Khan: concern that too much of development effort has been in urban environments. Primary school education is not enough.
Aga Khan: “need a massive, urgent, creative development effort aimed at rural populations.”
Aga khan: “lines of force in rural societies centrifugal”…role of feudal, tribal, and local identities. These values must be embraced.
Aga khan: developed world has expected dev’ping societies to behave like them forgetting centuries of history, urbanization, in dev world
Aga Khan: 40% of UN member nations are “failed democracies”. Where have things gone wrong in sharing promise more equitably?
Aga Khan quotes Obama “we will seek common ground.”Do this by addressing persistent global poverty “where we can listen and learn together.”
Aga Khan: “clash of ignorances” in Western/Muslim relations….failure of educational and some religious institutions.
Aga Khan arrived. Flashbulbs, the whole room stood. Quite formal.
Ismailimail 
Brilliant post Ismaili Mail! This is a great use of the Twitter phenomenon.
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