After Terror: Promoting Dialogue Among Civilizations
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Presentation followed by reception and book signing
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, Zbjigniew 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.
Moderated by: Katherine Marshall Director, Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics, Human Development Network, World Bank
Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University in Washington DC, is “the world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam” according to the BBC. Former High Commissioner of
Comments by: William Rex Senior Corporate Strategy Officer, World Bank Reverend John Peterson, Canon for Global Justice and Reconciliation,
World Bank J Building J1-050 Auditorium
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and
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Presentation followed by reception and book-signing
