ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on effecting the embodiment of integral development, through an overall Omani societal renaissance and provides a creative synthesis of all of CARE-and-CARE, on the path of renewal. Such a synthesis lies, for the African philosopher Ali Mazrui (1986), at the heart of an evolving civilization. Arab cultures had long since merged with the black tribes there, creating a strange world that spoke Swahili and danced to torrid African rhythms. Oman also had a large contingent of Balochi peoples. Balochi speakers live mainly in an area now composed of parts of south-eastern Iran and south-western Pakistan that was once the historic region of Balochistan. They also live in Central Asia (near Merv, Turkmenistan) and south-western Afghanistan. Oman is a land that is at once beautiful and mysterious. Its beauty is bound up in a collage of towering mountain ranges, highlands, regions rendered fertile by intricate water systems, and deserts.
