Mr. Abdelhak Azzouzi presents His Majesty King Mohamed VI with the five volumes on Civilisations and Cultural Diversity

At the outset of the religious lecture on September 17, 2008, the President of the Interdisciplinary Center for Strategic and International Studies, Professor Abdelhak Azzouzi, presented His Majesty  King Mohamed VI with the five volumes on Civilisations and Cultural Diversity. These are five collective works of  high quality, on the topic of a culture of peace, produced by scholars from four continents, addressing humans who are advocatesof openness, persevering and acting in good faith, and concerned about peaceful coexistence. All contributors to the five volumes set themselves within convergence between East and West , attempting to understand and analyse relationships with the other. “My heart is now able to receive all beings” is the common thread that triggered the fundamental tone of the volume on the threshold of which we are have now set foot.
Such tone is one of openness, hospitality, understanding and peaceful existence. Prejudices, clichés and most of all ignorance are at the origin of phantasms, misrepresentations, manipulations and self-confinement. 

Through case studies, reference to sacred holy texts, to works of sociology, history, philosophy, political science and international relations, and through scholarly analyses, meditating thoughts and  real dialogue, the authors come to the conclusion that civilisations and cultures are inherently carriers of  a universal humanism which can and must ward off dangers and catastrophes. Man, civilisation and culture must be able to overcome the temptation of ignorance and lack of appreciation which threaten to condemn humanity through a set of clichés, prejudices and polemics with no relation to truth. This is an important reason for reconsidering biases and preconceived ideas with the aim of  scrutinising and refuting them if necessary, and thus, stepping forward into the future. The authors of the volumes have established rules of a universal humanism through dealing with the prevailing different political, economic, social and cultural problems. For, the problems relating to dialogue of civilisations and cultures are not confined to their religious nature only.

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