Ibrahim Saleem (Abu Dhabi)
The Forum for the Promotion of Peace announced the launch of its new identity to be called the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum, bearing the name of the capital of peace, tolerance and space for coexistence and love. Abu Dhabi Peace Declarations, Human Fraternity Document, Makkah Al-Mukarramah Document, and New Fulfillment Pact Document. As well as the multiple dialogues with local and international institutions with multiple religious and cultural backgrounds, international organizations, prominent personalities and supporting experts within the periodic discussion panels moderated by Wilton Park Agency between 2018 and 2021.
The participants praised the UAE model in embodying comprehensive citizenship. On the land of this blessed country, dozens of different religions, cultures, ethnicities and hundreds of nationalities coexist in security, safety, affection and respect.
The participants expressed their blessing for the new identity, to build on previous successes and cross into the lofty spaces of creativity. At the conclusion of the activities of the eighth annual forum, the participants recommended “Inclusive Citizenship: From Common Existence to Shared Consciousness” organized by the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum and held under the generous patronage of His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, to form expert committees to study, review and develop religious and civic education curricula; In order to take into account the human and moral dimension in the field of education for comprehensive citizenship.
The participants also recommended the establishment of an electronic platform to follow up on recommendations and suggestions and crystallize ideas, and to establish a branch of the Forum for the Promotion of Peace concerned with promoting peace and spreading the values of comprehensive citizenship in some regions of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa. To be a force for peace and reconciliation, and to form educational committees to prepare educational programs for education on citizenship.
The participants called for the establishment of a research center within the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum that specializes in issues of citizenship and identity in accordance with the forum’s vision of pluralism and diversity, and the issuance of an academic journal on citizenship issues that combines religious and humanitarian disciplines, building bridges between specialists in religion and philosophy, and forging partnerships between the forum and government religious and university institutions The participants in the forum blessed the forum for launching its new identity and bearing the name of the capital of peace and tolerance.
The participants in the eighth forum of the “Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies” expressed their sincere congratulations to the United Arab Emirates on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Union. available in these exceptional circumstances.
The participants expressed their highest feelings of gratitude to His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State, may God protect him, and to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Chairman of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and to Their Highnesses the Rulers of the Emirates, may God preserve them all, and to the patron of the Forum, His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
The participants in this forum prayed to the Almighty to include the mercy and generosity of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who was a refuge in crises for near and far, and to perpetuate the blessing of the upper hand on the United Arab Emirates and protect it from the evil of every epidemic and affliction and the rest of the countries of the worlds.
existential challenges
The final statement of the forum, which was read by Dr. Khalifa Mubarak Al Dhaheri, Executive Director of the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum, explained that it is in response to the existential challenges facing all humanity, as a result of the emerging “Covid-19” epidemic, “Corona”, which changed humanity’s programs and plans, and rearranged its priorities and means of value orientations. The eighth annual meeting of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies was held in Abu Dhabi on “Inclusive Citizenship: From Common Existence to Shared Consciousness”, under the continuous generous patronage of His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and under the supervision and follow-up of His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, and chaired by His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah Bin Bayh, Chairman of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies and Chairman of the Emirates Council for Sharia Fatwas.
The forum hosted hundreds of participants, including ministers, representatives of UN organizations, officials of Islamic organizations, ambassadors, representatives of governmental bodies, centers and international organizations, muftis, scholars, judges, religious leaders, thinkers, academic figures, parliamentarians and others. The space for legitimate rooting, highlighting the positive role of religion in building citizenship, and discussing the challenges facing humans as citizens on the planet. The participants studied positive models of coexistence, tolerance and comprehensive citizenship in the Emirates, Finland, Singapore and Egypt, and the last scientific session was devoted to discussing opportunities and possibilities of making a better world. How can charters and declarations contribute to building a better future?
number of results
The participants in the eighth forum of the Forum for the Promotion of Peace concluded with a number of results: “Citizenship in the historical concept was based on race, religion, shared memory, or on the element of purity of lineage, which leads to the division of citizens into degrees as was the case with the Romans or the Arabs in the pre-historic era. Islam, and in modern times, citizenship has become a voluntary choice in a contractual manner that guarantees to the newest citizen the same rights that were for the oldest member, so there is no difference between the first and the last, the original and the intruder. Factionalism and tribalism, but it does not necessarily abolish them. Rather, what is required is to adapt and live happily with them.
Contemporary globalization has also created a deep awareness of the degree of intertwining between peoples’ destinies and situations, which necessitated thinking about local citizenship on the horizon of global citizenship, and the reality proved that the principle of citizenship needs more systematic research in order to reach a model formula that presents new concepts of comprehensive citizenship, derived from Religious texts take into account the contemporary civilizational context, and the concept of comprehensive citizenship is based on transcendence based on mere recognition to acquaintance, by which the narrowness of selves is transcended to the space of the common, and moves from critical identities to the broad unity, the unity of the great human community.
They unanimously agreed that the concept of comprehensive citizenship is based on the rooting of the principle of citizenship that embraces diversity through a correct understanding and proper evaluation of religious heritage and historical practices and by accommodating the changes that have occurred in the world.
The statement stressed the need to transcend the exclusionary view of religious contribution to building a creative model of citizenship that is consistent with the nature of the environments it is intended to download, in light of the changes in the social structure in the world, and what has become known as the return of religion, and that national identity is a tool that expresses human partnership and the common interest among the people of the country. the one. As for all other affiliations, such as religion, ethnicity, and family, they are affiliations that express a partnership between members of the same group, but do not justify their classification into conflicting categories, especially when it comes to religious affiliation.
A call for solidarity
The statement indicated that religions call for solidarity with other human beings in order to achieve the universality of faith and human brotherhood, and that the language of religion must be translated into the language of public space, the language of civil life and law, and borrowing from the texts of history in order to bring them down to the present era, while preserving for each era its language and its temporal environment. And spatial, interrogating texts, collecting their miscellaneous, and comparing them with the opinions and principles reached by humanity that serve human interests.
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