Oman launches initiative at UN that aims to combat hate speech, genocide and its incitement
NEW YORK CITY: Oman brought its vision of civilizational coexistence to the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday with the formal launch of the Muscat Plan of Action, a global framework that places traditional and indigenous leaders at the center of efforts to counter hate speech and prevent atrocity crimes.
Representatives of traditional and indigenous communities from around the world joined senior UN officials and member state delegations at the launch event, which was co-organized by Oman’s Permanent Mission to the UN and the UN Alliance of Civilizations.
Mohammed Al-Mamari, the Omani minister of endowment and religious affairs, framed the plan as something deeper than a diplomatic initiative, and as the distillation of decades of Omani lived experience in coexistence, quiet mediation and bridge-building across cultures.
“Real peace is not built on fear, it is built through trust; not through exclusion but through participation,” he told delegates, invoking leader Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al-Said’s vision of Oman as a nation whose “message of peace will travel the world.”
