Moscow is hosting a major international forum called Moving from Dialogue to Partnership of Civilizations co-sponsored by Russia's MGIMO University and the RIW group.
The conference will center around ways of constructive interaction and partnership of all civilizations as the only viable solution to contemporary crises.
Speaking at the forum's opening, RIW Group Coordinator Veniamin Popov said that 'a civilization is a stage in the development of humankind that combines social relations, politics, culture, and an economic order". He reminded the audience that "the last 500 years have seen the dominance of the Western civilization while new ones are coming to the foreground today, first of all the Chinese, the Islamic, the Latin American and other civilizations."
GSV "Russia - Islamic world"