Beschreibung:
This report is the result of years of cooperation between the Club of Rome and the Bertelsmann Science Foundation. It gives a better understanding of the limits to social cohesion and the increasing role of intermediate institutions or of individual leaders in the mediation of normative conflicts.
Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- The American Culture War -- The Past in the Present: Redefining Laïcité in Multicultural France -- Normative Conflicts in Germany: Basic Consensus, Changing Values, and Social Movements -- Uncertain Ghosts: Populists and Urbans in Postcommunist Hungary -- Revolution from the Top and Horizontal Mediation: The Case of Chile's Transition to Democracy -- South Africa: Normative Conflicts, Social Cohesion, and Mediating Institutions -- Some Notes on Normative Conflicts in Turkey -- Islamic Tolerance: The Struggle for a Pluralist Ethics in Contemporary Indonesia -- The Conflict of Norms and Values in Contemporary Indian Society -- Normative Conflicts in Japan -- Normative Conflicts in Contemporary Taiwan -- Conclusion: General Observations on Normative Conflicts and Mediation -- Executive Summaries