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Multi-Civilizational Asia
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The Promise and the Peril
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This essay is divided into five sections. We begin by reflecting on civilizational dialogue in the first epoch, the autochthonous epoch, before we move on to the second epoch, the colonial epoch. The third epoch, which receives most attention, is the contemporary epoch, which will focus on globalization and civilizational dialogue. This will be followed by a discussion on the reaction to certain patterns of power and dominance associated with globalization in the contemporary epoch. The fifth and final section of the essay will explore the alternative—meaning the alternative to the communal response to the identity crisis in contemporary civilizations.
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* This paper was originally published on www.islam21.net. Republished with permission from the author.
Chandra Muzaffar is the President of the International Movement for a Just World, which seeks to raise public awareness of the moral and intellectual basis of global justice. A political scientist, he was the first Director of the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue at the University of Malaya and has also written numerous books on religion, human rights, Malaysian politics, and international relations, including most recently, Rights, Religion, and Reform (Routledge Curzon, 2002.) Additionally, he sits on the boards of several international non-governmental organizations concerned with social justice and civilizational dialogue.
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