Youth
Equipping the next generation — in classrooms, universities and youth programmes — to make tolerance a lived practice rather than an abstract value, so that future leaders carry it forward.
عام التسامح
The Year of Tolerance
In 2019, the United Arab Emirates declared a national Year of Tolerance — a long-horizon initiative to embed tolerance as an institutional value across policy, education, culture and everyday community life. More than half a decade later, the framework first set out that year continues to shape the country's direction: through the Ministry of Tolerance and Coexistence, the Document on Human Fraternity, the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, and a steady programme of laws, partnerships and community work that build on the original vision.
The Year of Tolerance reflects a founding idea of the UAE itself — that a nation can serve as a bridge between civilisations, where more than two hundred nationalities live, work and worship side by side under laws that guarantee respect, equality and dignity. This page is a living archive of that work: the values, the symbols, the pledges, and the people who carry them forward.
Tolerance and forgiveness are a duty. If the Almighty Creator forgives, and we as human beings are His creation, then shall we not forgive?
We want the UAE to be the global reference point for a tolerant culture — through its policies, its laws and its everyday practice.
The UAE is a place of tolerance, coexistence and openness to other cultures.
Five Pillars of Tolerance
Community
Building everyday spaces — neighbourhoods, mosques, churches, temples, festivals, sports clubs — where diversity is visible, ordinary and celebrated.
Governance
Anchoring tolerance in law and institution: anti-discrimination protections, the Ministry of Tolerance and Coexistence, and the regulation of places of worship to guarantee dignity for every community.
Communication
Using media, arts and creative work to tell stories of harmony and shared humanity — and to make tolerance audible in public conversation, not only in policy documents.
Dialogue
Convening cross-cultural dialogue — between faiths, between nations, between generations — and supporting the research, scholarship and partnerships that make that dialogue substantive.
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UAE keen to make tolerance a lifestyle model followed globally, says Abdullah bin Zayed
Chairing the Supreme National Committee, His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said the UAE wants tolerance to graduate from initiative to lifestyle — a model that other societies can study and adopt.
Read MoreYear of Tolerance committee: places-of-worship law in final stage
The Supreme National Committee announced that the law regulating the licensing of places of worship was in its final stage, alongside more than 1,400 initiatives delivered in the first half of the Year of Tolerance.
Read MoreAbdullah bin Zayed launches the Zayed Tolerance Pledge
His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan launched the Zayed Tolerance Pledge, inviting individuals, schools and workplaces to commit to tolerance as an everyday practice.
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