In his address to the UN General Assembly on the Dialogue between Cultures and Religions on November 12th, 2008, His Excellency, President Michel Sleiman, stated that “the philosophy of the Lebanese entity is based on dialogue, reconciliation and coexistence”. He declared that the Lebanese people would like Lebanon to “become an international center for the management of the dialogue of civilizations and cultures and consequently a global laboratory for that inter-entity dialogue”. To reach this goal, the LDC Initiative was initiated in June 2013 by several prominent and concerned Lebanese businessmen and academics who selected Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU) to lead an Initiative devoted to gaining UN recognition of Lebanon as a Land of Dialogue. LDC is housed at NDU and is being implemented by the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, an international academic NGO centered in Washington, D.C., with major University Centers in Russia, China, and Lebanon.