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Re-Envisioning Conflict, Dialogue, and Transformation: The Imperative for a New Methodological Paradigm

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The global cultural context of today can be characterized by two rapidly mutating phenomena. The first is the emergence of antifounda- tionalist “movements”—such as postmodernism, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism—that have occasioned a problematization of modernist epistemology, a breaking down of the Western metanarrative, and the rise of nationalist movements in postcolonial nations. The second is the major technological advances and transformations of the preceding three decades—cyber-technology, transnational communication, and the miniaturization and commercialization of machines (robotics, for instance)— which have radically changed the mode, means, and frequency by which political actions, financial transactions, and cultural exchanges take place across the globe. Together, these two phenomena are in large part responsible for the ways in which knowledge, in the first and now second decade of the new millennium, is conceptualized and represented and learning acquired, classified, and disseminated. What then is the relation between these new conditions of knowledge making and the urgent task of understanding conflict, dialogue, and transformation in the context of globalized relations?

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Palapathwala, R., Wicking, A. (2011). Re-Envisioning Conflict, Dialogue, and Transformation: The Imperative for a New Methodological Paradigm. In: Anceschi, L., Camilleri, J.A., Palapathwala, R., Wicking, A. (eds) Religion and Ethics in a Globalizing World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117686_2

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