Convocation of the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Toronto, 18 June 2004 - His Highness the Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary spiritual leader (Imam) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, and founder of the Aga Khan Development Network, today called for a “wide civil society partnership” between the developed world and the developing world, saying that it was “especially critical where governments are weak or non-performing, as in situations of failed democracies or post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction.”