ABSTRACT

This chapter seeks to demonstrate the need for a transcivilisational perspective on world affairs in the twenty-first century. You may ask, what is this transcivilisational perspective? Simply defined, it is a way of seeing transboundary phenomena. By what means? By critically examining predominant Euro-America-centric perspectives; and then, identifying views, voices, aspirations and desperations that have not been sufficiently recognised by those in developed societies. For what purposes? To elucidate values with the highest degree of legitimacy, shared by peoples on the globe, regardless of religions, cultures and diverse ways of thinking.