May 2017- A unique public-private partnership, His Highness the Aga Khan founded the Global Centre for Pluralism jointly with the Government of Canada. Both partners made considerable investments to form an endowment fund and carry out a major revitalisation of 330 Sussex Drive.
At the opening of these new premises in May 2017, His Highness the Aga Khan said: “Pluralism does not mean the elimination of difference, but the embrace of difference. Genuine pluralism understands that diversity does not weaken a society, it strengthens it. In an ever-shrinking, ever more diverse world, a genuine sense of pluralism is the indispensable foundation for human peace and progress. From the start, this has been a vision that the Ismaili Imamat and the Government of Canada have deeply shared.”
This video provides an overview of the work of the Global Centre for Pluralism in the voices of the Board Members of the Centre.