ABSTRACT

This chapter proposes a dialogic approach that is based on feminist dialogic ethics and that will ensure the possibility of establishing genuine dialogue. This approach can serve as an ideal way to establish effective intercultural conflict management and establish harmonious relationships. It argues that intercultural communication is an ethical process, in which every act is regulated by moral and ethical norms between the self and the other. The dialogic approach also provides an ideal ground for the establishment of a global community, where co-humanity can grow and intercultural conflict can be appropriately and effectively managed. The ethics of modernity centers on the rights, dignity and interests of the atomistic and ego-centered individualistic self. Postmodernists advocate the ethics of care, concern and responsibility for the other. The chapter summarizes the dialogic approach is seeking the acknowledgment of differences, diversities, and relativities rather than consensus, agreement, conformity and universality in the global society.