ИСТИНА

1. We live in conditions of a modern world, where local and regional conflicts flare up periodically in different parts of the planet. The current world system is increasingly coming into conflict with the objective processes of globalization at all levels (from local to global). You can often hear pessimistic words about the future of humanity. One’s also expresses doubts about the ability of the international community to unite to overcome global problems that are common for everybody. The policy of multiculturalism, which humanity pinned so much hope until recent times on, also does not add optimism. Lately this policy raised growing problems in Europe, where it is most actively carried out, and in other parts of the world. 2. It is important to see something positive in social relations that we could build on a constructive interaction between different people. Usually in such case people refer to the culture to come to the common interests on it’s base . But here the problem precisely lies, because the culture rather separates people than unites them. And usually no one pays attention to the degree of civilization of people, to what rules they hold in relationships with others. Although namely civilization gives people a common ground for understanding. Hence the cultural and civilizational dialogue in the modern world is essentially the only acceptable way to resolve conflicts and ensure a balanced social development. 3. The history of many different social systems demonstrates that cultures, being, for some reasons, isolated, as well as those who oppressed multiculturalism, are prone to stagnation, poverty, monotony, decline of creative activity of the significant part of the population. In the end they inevitably degrade. In human history we can find many examples proving that the most intense social, economic and cultural development took place in cases of promoting cultural diversity and where trade ways crossed due to favorable geographic conditions, expanding transnational cultural ties. 4. Today the role and importance of dialogue of cultures in the global world is so high that any attempt to resolve international conflicts and social problems by violence should be excluded . It is a true that sward is the worst tool for resolving the global problems of modernity. The only result guaranteed by such methods is exacerbation of the past conflicts and emergence of the new ones, often more sharp. The reason for this is the essence of culture that cannot be changed quickly and, moreover, by force. 5. There are many historical examples of resolving disputes through dialog, but so far we can see no trend towards such relations between people and various communities to become deeply rooted and durable. For a stable dialog and, moreover, for its becoming the main method of human communication, we need to replace the power of force by the power of spirit. It is in principle impossible without a certain level of development of spiritual and material culture. That is why we must support and develop the cultural and civilizational values of dialogue in the modern world, as the globalization has made the problem of dialog having no alternative.