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Parent topics
United Nations: An international organization that was founded in 1945 with the mission of preventing international war, protecting human rights, supporting social progress and justice, and helping with economic progress. [e]
Subtopics
World Heritage site: A place included in a list maintained by the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO with the aim of cataloguing sites of particular natural or cultural importance to the whole of mankind. [e]
Culture (social): UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2002) defined culture as "... the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of a society or a social group..." that "encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs". [e]- Ecosystem: A space in which multiple biological species interact. [e]
- Indigenous knowledge system: Add brief definition or description
- Indigenous knowledge: Local-level accumulated knowledge that does not originate in academic or corporate research institutions, inherited in situ through tradition and culture. [e]
- Nara (city): Japanese city located in the Kansai region of Honshu island; capital of Nara prefecture and the former capital of Japan (710–784). [e]
- Sustainable development: Pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for future generations. [e]
- Go (board game) [r]: 2-player grid board game; requires skill, strategy and intellect; the 1960s 3M Bookshelf game series included a version of it; the world's oldest game that is played in substantially its original form [e]
- National Security Agency [r]: An organization within the United States Department of Defense, with the dual roles of the principal signals intelligence agency in the United States intelligence community , but also having the responsibility for information assurance of military, diplomatic, and other critical communications. [e]
- Homefront [r]: The non-military actions of a nation at war, including its government, politics, society, economy and culture. [e]
- Lampoons of philosophers [r]: The often humorous perception of philosophers by other members of society. [e]