ABSTRACT

Peace is an essential quality that should characterise our engagement with all kinds of human activities in a world that faces many conflicts: political, religious, economic and cultural. The Bahudha approach recognises that there is a distinction between plural societies and pluralism. The Bahudha approach is needed both for understanding of other societies and peoples and for living in harmony. This approach could be secured particularly through religious harmony; educational programming; strengthening of international political architecture: the United Nations; and the use of military power in terms of the UN Charter. The culture of Bahudha is deeply rooted in the inculcation of a special attitude from an early age. The Bahudha approach is relevant to all those persons who believe that one can be a very good person and citizen without being religious. Culture, theology and territory are linking global and local religious identities as globalisation is changing the very nature of religion and its role in international affairs.