{"id":133054,"date":"2019-05-06T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=133054"},"modified":"2019-05-07T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T05:45:33","slug":"meanwhile-around-the-world-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/05\/meanwhile-around-the-world-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is much diversity<\/em>.\u00a0 Let us praise that mega aspect of our world as multipolar, passive but peaceful, coexistence of civilizations<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Anglo-American; Latin American-Caribbean; Islamic; African pre-, post-colonial; European from Ireland to Russia Far East; West Asian Islamic; with Israel Jewish; Iran Persian; South Asian, SAARC, Hindu and Islamic with India; Southeast Asian, ASEAN, Buddhist, Christian, multi-cultural; Northeast Asian daoist-shinto with China and Japan; Asian-Pacific, multi-cultural, with Maoris, Aborigines, Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians from one rim to the other.<\/p>\n

14 civilizations.\u00a0 Others stop counting at 8, 10.\u00a0 Around that.<\/p>\n

What a wonderful, diverse, polyphonic world!\u00a0 Not monophonic US or European all over, as they both have wanted and maybe still want.<\/p>\n

To be celebrated as part of a formula for endurance and duration.\u00a0 The other part is symbiosis.\u00a0 Man-woman diversity is fine; the other part is man-woman symbiosis, celebrated in half of world literature?<\/p>\n

Civilization diversity is fine, so is symbiosis.\u00a0 Meaning what?<\/p>\n

The standard answer: dialogue. “This is our position; what is yours?<\/em>”\u00a0 Good enough for getting to know each other across gaps of differences.\u00a0 But not good enough for symbiosis, for “living together”-ness.<\/p>\n

What more is needed, beyond “dialogue of civilizations”?<\/p>\n

Like for man-woman: creating something new.\u00a0 A real dialogue goes beyond getting to know each other to mutual learning, beyond mutual learning to mutual visions, and beyond that to mutual practice.<\/p>\n

Thus, Christianity and Islam could join in producing a Chrislam, Hinduism and Buddhism a Hinbuism, Daoism and Shinto a Daoshin.<\/p>\n

The civilizations we know, and often celebrate as if they were eternal, arose like that.\u00a0 That wonderful process will not stop by somebody putting a lid on it: “You have us; that is all you need”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

They may try, but will not succeed.\u00a0 Seeds under ice burst forth. Seeds of new civilizations under the present will also burst forth.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, dr hc mult, is founder of <\/em>TRANSCEND International<\/a> and rector of <\/em>TRANSCEND Peace University<\/a>. <\/em>He was awarded among others the 1987 Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize.<\/em> Galtung\u00a0has mediated in\u00a0over 150 conflicts in more than 150 countries, and written more than 170 books on peace and related issues<\/em>, 96 as the sole author. More than 40 have been translated to other languages, including <\/em>50 Years-100 Peace and Conflict Perspectives<\/a> published by <\/em>TRANSCEND University Press<\/a>. His book, <\/em>Transcend and Transform<\/a>, was translated to 25 languages<\/em>. He has published more than 1700 articles\u00a0and book\u00a0chapters and over 500 Editorials for <\/em>TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>. More information about Prof. Galtung<\/a> and all of his publications<\/a> can be found at transcend.org\/galtung<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What more is needed, beyond “dialogue of civilizations”? Like for man-woman: creating something new. A real dialogue goes beyond getting to know each other to mutual learning, beyond mutual learning to mutual visions, and beyond that to mutual practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[295,443,504,444,119,109,107,380,172,75],"class_list":["post-133054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-civilization","tag-culture-of-peace","tag-international-relations","tag-nonviolence","tag-peace","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-solutions","tag-west","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}