Our Common Humanity in the Information Age. Principles and Values for Development
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GIVING SOUL TO GLOBALIZATION
Faouzi Skali, President of the International Fez Forum Starting with the objective of creating an inter-faith dialogue, I realized that music and especially sacred music can create a dialogue between cultures and civilizations. This inspired me and we discovered the inner beauty of each culture and religion of the world in a very sensitive way. So we organized the Interfaith Fez festival for Arts and Music. This event made it very clear that the diversity of the cultures and religions around the world was important. In fact what made this diversity something tangible, something that we can feel and we can see, was the age of information and communication. There are more than 5,000 languages now in the world and we are losing one language every week. So in 100 years, we will lose almost 4,500 languages. Diversity is diminishing but at the same we have never been in a situation to have to live in a challenging world where diversity is our daylight. Because of all the information about all religions and cultures, we now have to enter into dialogue with them, to embrace living experiences of this diversity, in an Islamic city like Fès. The whole city was so happy to welcome all the religions of the world: Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism. People felt that everybody was welcome because all the religions were represented. Like a huge pilgrimage, everybody came to the fair to share the same values: the values of love, compassion, generosity and hospitality. At the festival, Katherine Marshall and myself founded a forum which is called “Giv ing Soul to Globalization”. For many years we wondered how we could mobilize the spiritual resources of humanity to make our globalization more human, more spiritual, and more dignified. At the end we found a way to make people from different profiles: spiritual leaders, political leaders and economic leaders to meet and think about how to build a new approach to spiritual globalization. |
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