Title of Paper

'Institutionalising the Dialogue of Faiths and Cultures in Asia'

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Presentation to Session Three:

Civilisational dialogue at the community level: its character, obstacles and opportunities

A submission to the Victorian Government in Australia, in which some forty signatories advocate that  General Religious Education, which includes indigenous worldviews, secular philosophies and ethics, should be provided for all students.

The course considered some of the most pressing questions facing the Australian Islamic community, including the question of terrorism, the ‘war on terror’, and the so-called ‘clash of civilisations’. Is such a clash the cause of the dramatic events we witness at the local through to the global levels, or are there less emotive yet more critical factors that must be understood?