Abu Dhabi – The fourth round of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Communities now taking place in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates has highlighted a three-stage strategy to achieve global peace and promote tolerance especially in Muslim societies. In his opening remarks, the forum’s president Sheikh Abdallah bin Bayyah said, “We need to implement a three-stage process where each stage is not a static process of itself but is rather part of continuous cycles that evolve alongside each other.” “The first cycle involves setting up the internal home in which we as Muslims unite under the reincarnation of peace in knowledge and practice. Let us start by first cleaning our own house. The second is critical dialogue with a wider community where the interface of Islam and other narratives is made accessible and permeable,” he said “Without such activities, Islam and Muslims will remain in an existential vacuum. The third is making an alliance with these wider communities as a collective force in combatting global problems that infiltrate the Muslim world,” Sheikh Bin Bayyah added. “We need people of intellect and wisdom to unify under one umbrella…
Abu Dhabi Conference Highlights 3-Stage Strategy to Achieve Global Peace
December 8, 2017
