NCKU Global Forum

Serving The Common Good—From ISIS to COP21

Mu-tien Chiou

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OUTLINES:1. Point of Departure: Worldview

2. Global Issues- from ISIS (Daesh) to COP21

3. Perspective: Nationalists vs. Internationalists

4. Reflections: Our way Forward5. Conclusion: Post-secularity as An Age of Faith?

Is This a Worldview

Or Is This a Worldview?

In fact, there are Worldviews

Ridiculous… really?

ISIS and Western Homegrown Terrorism

• Over 15,000 foreign fighters from 80 countries.

• Second or third generation Young Muslim immigrants

• Born and raised in Western countries (homegrown)

• Fundamentalist (Non-)violent extremists

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Source: http://soufangroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Foreign-fighters-flow-to-Syria.jpg

12• Failure of Multiculturalism

• Who belongs to the nation?1. Ethnic understanding of the

nation vs. Civic understanding

2. Monocultural integration policies vs. Multicultural group-based policies (pluralism)

How to accommodate minorities?

Refugee Issue- The Complexities

Economic Structure and The Labor Market

Moral and Cultural Foundations

Political History

• Low political participation• Feeling of detachment• Participation on the basis of Islamicidentity is seen as highly problematic: you need to Participate/integrate, but only on our liberal secular terms

Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758 –1794) on terror

‘Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a specific principle as a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to the homeland’s most pressing needs.’

War between Nationalists and Internationalists

The Way Forward?

Taiwan in the Global Context

The Asian Situations

Understand the differences in cultures, religions, beliefs and human behaviors

Think of the peace, freedom and equality of all human beings, not just “my group of people”

Fears are educated into us & can, if we wish, be educated out. — Karl A. Menninger

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. FDR, 1933

Glocal: Tackle Fear and Insecurity

Conclusion: Revelations from COP21 and Beyond

Conclusion

Conclusion: An Ancient Saga from the Bible