RECENTLY, I was asked to address an insurance company’s staff on Unity and Diversity. While pondering on what to say, many thoughts came to my mind. At the global level, Samuel Huntington’s hypothesis of the clash of civilisations seems to be not too far off the mark. While not on a large scale, clashes and skirmishes mostly based on religion and race are simmering in many parts of the world.
The Northern Ireland fight between the Catholics and the Protestants is not new. We saw the atrocities in Bosnia; we see it in Palestine. Nearer home, in the Philippines, there is the disagreement between the Muslims in the south and the government (mainly Christians) in the north. Along racial lines, clashes occur in Fiji, Aceh and most starkly in Sri Lanka.
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