Bridging Humanity
20220516Bridging humanity – the notion of clash of civilisations to build alliances and strengthening friendship and cooperation between nations and people
(Paper Presented at the Muslim World League Meeting on 11TH May 2022 at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Clash of civilisations have not strengthened nations. On the other, it has only created chaos, fear and endangered the relationships.
Nearly 84 million people are currently displaced by persecution or conflict, including 26 million people who have crossed an international border and become refugees. A far greater number have migrated for more complex reasons; the UN estimates that around 272 million people – are international migrants (stateless).
The current war in Ukraine–Russia has turned out be another clash of civilisation. This war has created some more refugees – More than 11 million people are believed to have fled their homes in Ukraine since the conflict began, according to the United Nations. A matter of clash of civilisations.
What makes people take such extreme risks? “We have to understand, that no one would put their children in a boat unless the sea is safer than the land,” “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.”
Many times, due to the border rules, migrants are pushed to seek out even more dangerous routes to evade controls. Others turn to increasingly expensive smugglers or become vulnerable to traffickers who exploit and extort them. Death tolls have soared in recent years. Do you remember story of drowning of 8,000 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea?
Many more deaths in the world’s treacherous borderlands, like the Sahara Desert, the Sonoran Desert on the US-Mexico border, and the Darién Gap, go uncounted. The UN estimates the journey across the Sahara could be twice as deadly as the Mediterranean.
Unless whites accept blacks, the browns and yellows, this world will continue the way it is. Think beyond the horizon and rediscover how this place can be more beautiful and happier.
Leaders, make someone happy and be empathetic and watch how you feel. When you make someone happy the feeling one gets is beyond explanation, it is blissful and satisfying and can cure several ailments and activates the adrenal glands. Try and experience it.
The white superiority will continue, it is difficult to disappear. This aspect needs to be taken care of to live peacefully.
Valuing multiculturalism is an important aspect for social cohesion. There is urgent need to promote multilingualism, translations and intercultural dialogue which will preserve the global linguistic diversity as a prerequisite for cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism and translation in order to foster intercultural dialogue.
Educations & cultural diversity needs to be placed at the heart of policies for the furtherance of international cooperation and social cohesion.
I will conclude by these words – It is the “role of all” to promote tolerance, open-mindedness, respect for difference and other’s values.
Let us not be a frog in the well, we need to widen the your horizons and rediscover others. Always promote positivity, remove NEGATIVITY.
Let’s not create a situation where our homes become mouth of a shark.