Dialogue Among Civilizations

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The Dialogue Among Civilizations is a theory in international relations. The theory in its current form was first introduced by Mohammad Khatami, former President of Iran. He originally introduced the idea of Dialogue Among Civilizations as a response to Samuel P. Huntington’s theory of Clash of Civilizations.

The term "Dialogue Among Civilizations" became famous after the United Nations adopted a resolution to name the year 2001 as the year of Dialogue among Civilizations. [1] [2]

There are currently several international organizations that are directly or indirectly pursuing the idea, including the Parliament of the World's Religions, Foundation for Dialogue among Civilizations and International Institute for Dialogue among Cultures & Civilizations.

Dialogue Among Civilizations is also the title of a book published in Persian by Mohammad Khatami.

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  • "A basic change in political ethics is required for the realization of the proposal, The dialog among civilizations." (UNESCO 1999)
  • "In order to understand the meaning of the phrase dialogue among civilizations as defined here, one has no choice but to closely pay attention to a number of points one of which is the relationship between a politician and an artist, and the other is the relationship between ethics and politics." (Khatami, UNESCO 1999)
  • “What is at stake today is not only protecting the West against the terrorists, home-grown and foreign, but (perhaps above all) protecting the West from itself. The reproduction of any one of its most monstrous events would be enough to lose everything that has been attained to date with respect to Human Rights […] The struggle is not (nor should it be) between Easterners and Westerners; the struggle is between tolerance and imposition, between diversity and homogenization, between respect for the other and contempt for or annihilation of the other.” (Jorge Majfud) [3]

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