Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue: Building Trust Among Future Communities

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.iir.cz/intercultural-and-interfaith-dialogue" target="_blank" >https://www.iir.cz/intercultural-and-interfaith-dialogue</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue: Building Trust Among Future Communities

Original language description

Trust is a necessary element for advancing bilateral and multilateral relationships, including long-distance trade, and partnerships for social and environmental development; providing shared responses to crises and preserving global peace. Throughout human history, people have continuously created and recreated trust relationships within and outside of their communities. A trust relationship is built when people feel confident that others will not abuse their own long-term valued beliefs, possessions and resources. Reliance on and confidence in other people emerge not only when we learn to eradicate our prejudices against their differences, but also when we are consistent and transparent in our actions that aim for mutual understanding, consensus and reconciliation. The sixth successive conference dedicated to an intercultural and interfaith dialogue, hosted by the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institute of International Relations in cooperation with the Prague-based Ambassadors of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states, and the Anna Lindh Foundation, provides a platform to highlight the role of religion and interfaith dialogue in developing trust among future communities. In these times of anxiety and uncertainty, in which we experience rising levels of populism, polarization and extremism on one side, and increasing levels of religiosity on the other, it is important to highlight the pivotal ways that faith-based organisations and spiritual leaders can help in renewing trust in intercultural and diplomatic relations. On the other hand, it is essential to explore the instruments that civil society activists can use to build trust in state-society relations in cooperation with religious actors and organisations. The conference has three thematic pillars in its addressing of trust relationships and the role that interreligious dialogue plays in each one: 1/ building trust across different cultures in societies, 2/ building trust in diplomatic relations, and 3/ building trust in state-society relations. The first theme addressed in the first panel is the role that religious actors can play in building trust across different cultures within society. By examining this theme, the panel takes into consideration religious actors’ relationships to other stakeholders and their own religious communities. The second panel focuses on the joint role of civil society and religious organisations in building trust in statesociety relations and presents potential action plans that can be developed between state institutions, civil society and religious groups to increase citizens’ participation in decision-making processes. The third panel addresses the question of trust in diplomatic relations. It examines the mechanisms through which different faiths and interfaith dialogue can insert trust into diplomatic negotiations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

M - Conference organization

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Online / MZV ČR, Černínský palác

Event country

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Event starting date

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Event ending date

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Total number of attendees

117

Foreign attendee count

70

Type of event by attendee nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce