Protecţia diversităţii culturale în dreptul internaţional – UNESCO, între tradiţii şi cultura diversităţii
Protection of cultural diversity in international law – UNESCO between tradition and the culture of diversity

Summary/Abstract: While not a plea for cultural relativism, this article will show and discuss the constant evolution of the importance of the concept of cultural diversity at a worldwide scale, within UNESCO, and emphasize the impact that cultural diversity has on the creation, application and observance of public international law. The rationality of such an attempt lies in the contestable character of contemporary international law as a synthesis of different legal cultures. Bearing in mind this reality, the adoption of international legally binding instruments in this field could be considered an evolution, unless suspected of a different aim. The article will analyze, while listing each instrument adopted within UNESCO, if those legally binding instruments were conceived in order to actually protect cultural diversity or to promote and protect certain political and economical interests of the powerful states of world. What are the goals of these instruments? To protect a state’s cultural diversity and then devise a set of common universal values or, rather, to transform the identity of the actors in order for them to consider then that public international law norms are conceived according with their own conceptions of their identity?

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