It also calls on signatories "to engage surrounding communities and interest groups in a dialogue on development plans".
When will we insist on a media world that offers well-made, intelligent entertainment with plot, dialogue, character development and suspense instead of mindless, ever-escalating violence?
For at least a century, in recurrent spasms of correction, The Novel has been blamed for ossified convention: the codified palaver of plot, character, dialogue, conflict, development, epiphany, closure; the deluded transparency of realism.
What one thinks of the dialogue, character development and plot, with all of its high-r.p.m. action crammed into a few days of one Seal team's life, At War will leave to the individual viewer to decide.
Dialogue, character development and plot are often afterthoughts behind game mechanics and lush combat sequences in games like "Gears of War," but in this case Mr. Bissell and Rob Auten, who helped him write the game, were instrumental almost from the beginning.
And "Jurassic Park" is an exercise in leaping about the jungle trying to eat and avoid being eaten.Visceral versus cerebralFor games based on action films, skipping dialogue, character development and plot is probably no great loss: games makers assume that anybody playing the game has already seen the film, understands the context and just wants to spend more time in its adrenalin-laden core.
Or take Dar es Salaam, where the local authorities engaged students to map roads, drains and streetlights in anticipation of an urban upgrading project, not only generating transparent planning data but also providing a platform for community consultation and a space for dialogue on development between citizens and leaders.
The final stage was for feedback to be received before a refinement in the dialogue and development of policy recommendations in collaboration with those groups consulted and involved in the Exmoor. .
(Read: "World Day for Cultural Diversity, Dialogue and Development").
