Tenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society

Abstract

Multiculturalism, in general is defined as a policy for managing the relations of different ethnic groups, protecting the identity of diverse cultures and propagating the idea of peaceful and harmonious co-existence within the boundaries of a nation. Still there is lots of conceptual confusion and the topic remains open for debate and discussion. Even after being in practice as part of official policy of many countries for more than half century, the multicultural societies haven’t been able to attain the goal of peaceful co-existence and harmonious living among the people representing diverse cultures. Such key problems are not confined to a particular part of the world but are encountered globally, hence require a globally admissible solution. Probably the concept of global citizenship one of the United Nations millennium development goals may fulfill this objective. In regard of priori approach of multiculturalism apparently is an all inclusive policy that recognizes plurality of cultures with the claim of providing the space to each of theme. Such societies continuously attempt to bring forth a common identity and consensual citizenship, at the same time it is strongly presumed that to reach a consensus among the diverse religions would be hardly possible. It may eventually be focused and concluded that compassion model of multiculturalism maybe most suited one as it would reach beyond the goal of overlapping consensus as a condition for global citizenship but maybe able to generate a universal consensus.