Muslim Action Committee

Saturday, March 25, 2006

786
THE CAMPAIGN FOR GLOBAL CIVILITY
The Campaign for Global Civility is an ongoing campaign to get people globally to accept the need to revive the concepts of civility in their discourse and debate. It aims to have people worldwide sign up to the principles in the Proclamation of Global Civility as voluntary self-regulating principles.
Civility and especially Global Civility is the requirement of the time. The world is becoming increasingly polarised as the right of free expression is squandered to abuse, humiliate and demonise individuals and communities. The value of Free Expression is in challenging and advancing ideas against others. This can only truly be achieved through establishing a common minimum benchmark of civility by which all can feel truly comfortable to express their views without fear of intimidation and without their audience feeling intimidated.