Before he addressed the Canadian Parliament, Mawlana Hazar Imam gave one of his most important speeches at the Portugese Parliament when he was given the North-South Prize by the Portugese President on Thursday, 12 June 2014. Key Highlights from his speech include the following: "As I observe the world, I am struck by the insufficiency of well-informed debate, of richer dialogue, of deeper education in our quest to avoid human conflict. That insufficiency often plagues relations between the North and the South and increasingly between the North and the Islamic world. Some have called this a clash of civilisations. I think it is, essentially, a clash of ignorances. What it means, in any case, is that institutions such as the North-South Centre have never been more important…. It is ironic that a sense of intensified conflict comes at a time of unprecedented breakthroughs in communication technology. At the very time that we talk more and more about global convergence, we also seem to experience more and more social divergence. The lesson it seems to me is that technologies alone will not save us — the critical variable will always be and will always lie in the disposition of human hearts and minds." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58EYmb-MS7c http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/10814/ For this and other videos of Mawlana Hazar Imam - please visit Noorun Mubeen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI0XAOrJaSsMgtR_mdeN4Yg For this and other speeches of Mawlana Hazar Imam - please visit Nanowisdoms.org #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #ProudIsmaili #SpiritualChildren #HazarImam #SpiritualFather #SpiritualMother #ShahPir #Blessed #Faith #Love4Imam #Imam #Imamat #IsmailiPride #LessonsInIsmailism #Nanowisdoms #NoorunMubeen #DidYouKnow #USIG2015 #OneJamat #AgaKhanHarvard #Harvard #Portugal #PortugeseParliament #PowerOfDialogue #InformedDebate #RichDialogue #TechnologyAloneCannotSaveUs Please visit www.ismailignosis.com or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/IsmailiGnosis for more gems about Mawlana Hazar Imam, the Imamat, and Ismaili history and philosophy.