Dialogue & Debate

Our mission aims to increase appreciation of humanity’s complex mix of ethnicities and faiths. Where these clash, we seek to find ways to reconcile them for the common good.  
 
This always begins with a quest for better answers - and typically ends in a search for better questions.  

One particular question has persisted since the dawn of civilization: what’s the best way of building, then sustaining, a just and peaceful society in which all can realize their full potential?   

This, in turn, begs further questions: who needs to do what, when and how to bring this about?  

Similar questions return time and again:

Our many public conferences, debates and seminars since 1989** have sought to encourage meaningful and constructive inter-penetration between divergent views, drawing in particular upon the world’s cultural heritage to enhance the quality and reach of public discourse.