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After Terror
Promoting Dialogue Among Civilizations
Akbar S. Ahmed (Edited by), AS Ahmed (Author), Brian Forst (Edited by)
9780745635026, Polity Press
Paperback / softback, published 2 March 2005
160 pages
21.5 x 13.8 x 1.4 cm, 0.272 kg
“If you are looking for reading that is thought-provoking, incisive, and challenging, After Terror is the perfect book to read.”
Friday Times
“It is good to have a work which includes within its covers the reflections of [the] President of the World Bank, an international activist who founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her extraordinary activities in clearing anti-personnel mines from battle zones, and one of the most respected of contemporary musicians. This ensures that there is something for everyone in this compilation!”
Muslim World Book Review
After Terror presents sustained reflections by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers on the most pressing question of our time: how can we find ways to defuse the ticking bombs of terrorism and excessive interventions against it? It offers an antidote to the fatalistic global holy war perspective that afflicts much contemporary thought, focusing instead on the principles, issues, and acts needed to shift course from alienation and conflict to a path of sanity and goodwill among cultures and civilizations. The central aim of the book is to advance contemporary thinking on the causes and implications of 9/11 and thus provide the essential elements of a blueprint for humanity. It features 28 original essays by some of the world's leading public figures, scholars, and religious leaders, including Benjamin Barber, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Amitai Etzioni, Bernard Lewis, Martin Marty, Queen Noor, Joseph Nye, Judea Pearl, Jonathan Sacks, Ravi Shankar, Bishop Desmond Tutu, E.O. Wilson and James D. Wolfensohn. After Terror attests to the power of dialogue and mutual understanding and the possibility of tolerance, respect, cooperation, and commitment. Without ignoring the dangers of the modern world, it points to a future in which people can celebrate both the fundamental sentiments and interests that we share and the diversities that make us human.
Acknowledgments x Contributor Biographies in Brief xii Part I Introduction 1 1 Toward a More Civil Twenty-first Century Part II The Nature and Sources of the Problem 13 2 The Simple Power of Weakness, the Complex Vulnerability of Power 3 Dialogue and the Echo Boom of Terror: Religious Women's Voices after 9/11 4 Closing Chapters of Enmity 5 Benjamin Franklin's Gift of Tolerance 6 God's Word and World Politics Part III Pathways to Dialogue and Understanding 45 7 The Role of the Media in Promoting Tolerance 8 Civilization, Human Rights, and Collective Responsibility 9 Endless Enemies or Human Security 10 Dialogue among Civilizations and Cultures 11 Transnational Moral Dialogues 12 In Other People's Shoes 13 A Universal Language, without Boundary or Prejudice 14 Dialogue among Civilizations 15 The Productive Airing of Grievances 16 All of Man's Troubles 17 Turning Enemies into Friends 18 Security through Dialogue 19 The Power of Dialogue: Redefining "Us" 20 On Clash, Morality, Renaissance, and Dialogue 21 The Just War Tradition and Cultural Dialogue 22 Celebrating Differences on our Melting Pot Planet Part IV From Concern to Action 155 23 Clash or Dialogue of Cultures? 24 The Fellowship of Dialogue 25 Hard Power and Soft Power 26 Global Governance in an Interdependent World 27 Getting to Peace: Awakening the Third Side 28 Risking Hospitality Index 191
Akbar Ahmed and Brian Forst 3
Zbigniew Brzezinski 15
Diana L. Eck 21
Rajmohan Gandhi 29
Walter Isaacson 36
Archbishop Desmond Tutu 39
Shashi Tharoor 47
Sergio Vieira de Mello 55
Jody Williams 66
President Seyed Mohammed Khatami 72
Amitai Etzioni 79
Dame Marilyn Strathern 85
Sir Ravi Shankar 90
Kofi Annan 94
Lord George Carey 98
Edward O. Wilson 106
Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks 112
Queen Noor of Jordan 119
Tamara Sonn 131
Judea Pearl 138
Jean Bethke Elshtain 145
Prince El Hassan bin Talal 149
Bernard Lewis 157
James D. Wolfensohn 159
Joseph S. Nye Jr 166
Benjamin R. Barber 171
William L. Ury 179
Martin Marty 186
Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]
