Culture within the development policy

Thanks to Mahla, with whom we stayed, we got an invitation to SIDA (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) for a seminar concerning the above subject.
As being a medical student she sometimes get invitations to different arrangements like this and this time she was prevented participating.
Invited to this seminar were representatives from the government - two different governmental depatments - SIDA and other organizations and institutions.
As so often the political representatives were as exciting as a piece of paper with statistic staples but luckily enough there were members from other interest groups as SELAM - an organisation inviting artists from all over the world, both within the musical sphere but also theater and other disciplines - who were more enthusiastic and enthused over the subject.
Another structure was Kulturrådet or The Swedish Art Council.

From the political point of view - as Aurore established - the discussion focused more on quantitative aspects than qualitative ones, meaning that culture in the broadest sense of the word, serve as a mean for another goal - aid policy or investments in infrastructure in a country - where the cultural element serve as a door opener.
The representatives for SELAM or The Swedish Art Council, talked more about culture as a goal in itself, as the mastic for understanding between different countries and cultural contexts.

We came there at 9 am and left at 12 am.