Then you need the subjective impetus of interest and sympathy. Indeed, it will go on as long as conservatives continue to feel threatened by foreigners. Dialogue among civilizations the dialogue among civilizations should be held at seton hall, and it should be held at the united nations, and wherever people of good will seek to bridge differences and advance peace, drawing on the best of humanitys rich. Irans president mohammed khatami, who was a prominent philosophy professor, wanted to make some constructive moves to transform the image of iran in international community and within the muslim world. The time had come to bring the world together in a discourse aimed at replacing hostility and. Dialogue among civilizations some exemplary voices f. The endowment for the world public forum dialogue of civilizations foundation doc endowment fund was registered in july 20 in geneva by dr. Khatami dialogue among civilizations as international political. These questions were among the issues addressed throughout the unu project on the dialogue on civilizations.
Read while you wait get immediate ebook access when you order a print. There have been numerous exchanges among civilizations in history, spanning all ages and all parts of the world. It was a place were muslims and christians talked about their religions with each other. Pdf dialogue among civilizations dac has been referred as a solution to save the world community. In response to the proposal made by the president of the islamic republic of iran, the united nations general assembly declared 2001 as the year of dialogue among civilizations. On 9 november 2001, prompted by the iranian leader mohammad khatami, the member states of unesco unanimously adopted the unesco universal declaration on cultural diversity. A new vision of south east europe opatija, croatia, 31 may to 1 june 2006 coorganized by the united nations educational, scienti. Civilization and its discontents the impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious things in life. Report of secretarygeneral on public information activities for united nations year of dialogue among civilizations 2001 a55492rev. Pdf this article discusses the developmental history of. The many, many millions of muslims living peacefully and positively contributing to society is not news.
In doing so the assembly rejected the concept of a clash of civilizations which is based on the notion that intercivilizational understanding is impossible. Furthermore, muslims are now not only prevalent in the east, but in the centre of the occident as well. The activity of the foundation is aimed at supporting research in the sphere of political and social sciences, religion and culture, developing. To that end, we have decided to, more explicitly, recognize its potential as an important bridge between peoples and value its contribution to furthering a dialogue among civilizations, cultures ad communities. United nations year of dialogue among civilizations seton. And yet, in making any general judgment of this kind, one is in danger of forgetting the manifold. Dialogue among civilizations dialogue assumes equality interview with edgar morin we must understand that the other is a subject like oneself, meaning an autonomous individual who commands respect. Fred dallmayr, is a political theorist specializing in modern and contemporary european thought. In other words, the dialogue among civilisations initiative provided something like a nice title for another paper to criticise huntington or a fitting rhetorical device. In its global agenda for dialogue among civilizations, the united nations general assembly apparently tried to stem the tide of uniformization which is inherent in the economic dynamic of globalization. It is rather an opening of horizons than an exchange of arguments. This barcode number lets you verify that youre getting exactly the right version or edition of a book. Melody for dialogue among civilizations association.
Is there also a dialogue between past and future involving remembrance. Huntington hypothesizes that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world of politics will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. Designed and developed by the unu office of communications. Academics with an interest in global issues, though, found the notion of dialogue among civilisations a useful rhetorical antithesis to the largely discussed and popular. Dialogue among civilizations is the result of an international endeavor whose seeds were planted in 1998 by president mohammad khatami of the islamic republic of iran during an address to the united nations general assembly. In order to create dialogue among civilizations, the coordinators contacted reading coordinators, editors, poets, and poetry lovers around the world and asked them to setup readings in their cities to support this program. The case of finnishiranian human rights expert dialogue. Dialogue between cultures, civilizations and peoples. In his remarks at the school of international relations in tehran, iran, on 30 august 2012, secretarygeneral ban kimoon said. Dialogue among civilizations explores the social, cultural, and philosophical underpinnings of civilizational dialogue by asking questions such as. Vladimir yakunin to support the dialogue of civilizations research institute doc activities. Dialogue among civilizations is searching for the bases and concepts of the civilizations, in order to define new policies and power and create a new set of relations.
Civilization and its discontents by sigmund freud first published in 1930 translated from the german by james strachey i i t is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of. Gholamali khoshroo today, political and cultural trends and processes in the middle east region and the world clearly show that the dialogue among civilizations is not merely a moral recommendation, but a vital necessity. Dialogue among civilizations welcome to the official web. On on item 25 united nations year of dialogue among civilizations friday, 9 november 2001. In our era of globalization, dialogue between different, and potentially contradicting, worldviews and value systems, as embodied in the worlds civilizations,1. Dialogue among civilizations dialogue as a method of cultural discourse has a hoary antiquity. Dialogue among civilizations 1a press release ga9747 am meeting 5 september 2000 towards other cultures was a major impediment to true globalization, he said. Former iranian president mohammad khatami introduced the idea of dialogue among civilizations as a response to samuel p. People need to have a better understanding of the many positive. Dialogue among civilizations explores the social, cultural, and philosophical.
History also illustrates that civilizations, or cultures, are not static, and that. It was a most favoured method of philosophical disquisition with the vedic and upanishidic seers who employed it for advancement of knowledge, enrichment of culture and refinement of. Decides to proclaim the year 2001 as the united nations year of dialogue among civilizations. Dialogue among civilizations the regional summit forum on communication of heritage. It is the product of the research, experience and creative thinking of the more than 100 academics, journalists, representatives of national, regional and. Milestones of the dialogue among civilizations 1946 since the adoption of its constitution, the desire to promote dialogue among civilizations as a means of fostering peace has been a priority of the organisation. Meaningful dialogue among civilizations cannot take place in the absence of religious freedom. Senior communist party of china official liu yunshan elaborated on chinas concept of civilization, calling for all countries to learn from each other among different civilizations. Dialogue among civilizations united nations university. On the occasion of the proclamation of the year 2001 united nations year of dialogue among civilizations. Our belief is that music and musical performance are a major component of intangible heritage of the world community.
A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. It is only through a discourse of dialogue that the injustice and tyranny, which has become inherent to international relations, can be contained while promoting peace. In november 1998, the general assembly of the united nations in a unanimous resolution proclaimed 2001 as the united nations year of dialogue among civilizations. Expresses its firm determination to facilitate and promote dialogue among civilizations. Are there different trajectories for different civilizations. It aims at bringing about a deeper mutual understanding among peoples belonging to different civilizations by increasing their knowledge of each other s ideals, value systems, motivations and ways of thinking and ways of life. The united nations year of dialogue among civilizations is a logical sequel to the celebration, in 2000, of the international year for the culture of peace, for. Safa khaneh was a place that haj aqa nourollah and his older brother made.
The dialogue among civilizations, therefore, reaffirms the rights of both to be different and to be equal simultaneously. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. But while huntingtons dark prognoses have since been weighed in the scientific balance and found wanting,2 the dialogue from intercultural childcare right up to the united nations year of dialogue among civilizations3 has been considered more than ever to be an import. Universal values versus cultural diversity dialogue among civilizations. By using the criterion of dialogue, we can criticize policies, not justify them. The earliest civilization had a number of predisposing factors, including different environment like river valleys with rich lands, different influences from outside, different cultural inheritances from the past, and different geographical settings. Khatami dialogue among civilizations as international political theory 12 the west at the ent communism was for the west vision with this aim in mind.
The articles included in the present volume, dialogue among civilizations, russian philosophical st udies, iv, also stemmed from the cooperation between the council for research in va lues and. In his 1993 book clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order published by the council on foreign relations, samuel p. The iranian government subsequently founded the international centre for dialogue. Border thinking, decolonial cosmopolitanism and dialogues among civilizations walter d. The dialogue among civilizations will help avoid misunderstandings and distrust among different groups of people, and to solve current humanitys economic, social, humanitarian, cultural and political problems by sharing experiences on the national, subregional, regional, interregional and international levels. From cultural violence to dialogue of civilizations. Intersectoral platform contributing to the dialogue. Dialogue among civilizations through poetry seattle. Among cultural civilizations one can r ecognize about 16 cases, such as the egyptian civilization 3100 b. Dialogue among cultures, civilizations and peoples for culture and development, the anna lindt foundation have pledged to pursue. International conference on the dialogue of civilizations.
Dialogue among civilizations and religions 19722012 report. In the early 1990s literate opinion lingered under the glow of the soviet collapse and savored a sense that world consensus behind liberal. One of the first places for where dialogue among civilizations took place was in isfahan, iran at the safa khaneh community that was established more than a century ago in 1902. The cultures of the world, with all of their rich diversity of gifts, have much to contribute to the building up of a civilization of love. Calling dialogue among civilizations humanitys best answer to humanitys worst enemies, the secretarygeneral of the united nations said that. The identity of the mature person is shaped on the basis of the encounter with the. The term was initially used by austrian philosopher hans kochler who in 1972, in a letter to unesco, had suggested the idea of an international conference on the dialogue between different civilizations dialogue entre les. Dialogue of civilizations initiatives and contributions. Khatami dialogue among civilizations as international. Issue 3, 2012 looks at the progress made and lessons learned in trying to redefine diversity and improve dialogue among civilizations and cultures since the 2001 united nations year of dialogue among civilizations. Based on its many years of experience with farreaching dialogue initiatives such as the routes and general histories projects, the organization distanced itself from the notion of a clash of civilizations in the mid1990s, proposing a more dynamic and interactive framework. Senior cpc official calls for enhanced dialogue among. Among the byproducts of sumerian religion were the first true likenesses of human beings. Bearing in mind the valuable contribution that dialogue among civilizations can make to an improved awareness and understanding of the.
I take that to mean that as a poet and as a writer i need to try, always, to use words judiciously, fairly and with a sense of belonging to a community that is part of a whole, a whole that extends not just from the new york islands to the redwood forests but to the outer rim of our globe and to the concentric circles within it. Dialogue among civilizations in the global era international. The uns general assembly ratified the global agenda for dialogue among civilizations in which were enshrined the principles of intercultural dialogue, which all were encouraged to defend, as well as those aims. This is, unfortunately, a product of the misunderstanding of the islamic faith and the fear of the other, which is too often perpetuated through mass media today in their attempts to gain a wider readership.
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