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“Beauty is a great way to connect. When you see a painting or a performance that is beauty, you find yourself opening up," Dutch composer Merlijn Twaalfhoven said at Thursday’s Arts panel “Culture and Conflict.”

Filed in Blog Topics: Arts, Cultural Diplomacy, music, Damian Woetzel, 2102 Aspen Ideas Festival, dancing, ballroom, Aspen Institute Arts Program, Pierre Dulaine, Merlijn Twaalhoven

Senegal's new culture minister is none other than our friend Youssou N'Dour, the Grammy award winning singer from Senegal who joined us at the 2009 Cultural Diplomacy Forum in Aviles, Spain. Watch him discuss the diplomacy of arts and culture here:

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