What Does the Quran State About Killing Human Beings?

LAST WORD Peaceful inter-religious dialogue is necessary today to promote harmony in our closely interconnected multireligious global society. Living in a closely interconnected ‘global village’, we find ourselves living in a world of multi-religious, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic societies. Differences naturally exist between people in such pluralistic societies. Some people confront others in efforts to remove these differences, not realizing that some differences just cannot be removed. The fact is that Nature abhors uniformity and revels in diversity. This means that ‘difference’ is a part of Nature. Differences exist in every aspect of life, including in the sphere of religion. For peace to prevail in such societies, we need to simply learn the ‘art of difference management’ rather than the ‘art of difference elimination.’ How should we manage differences? In the realm of religion today, differences can best be managed through meaningful and positive dialogue between people of different faiths, as this book has sought to show. Such dialogue can serve many important purposes, such as peace-building, conflictresolution, and most importantly helping people grow intellectually and spiritually through learning from others’ insights and experiences. Meaningful inter-religious dialogue is necessary today to promote peace and harmony in our closely interconnected multi-religious global society. Over the years, I have participated in many interfaith initiatives in different countries. The gist of my experience