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The
Role of Universities in the Quest for Peace. 2005.
Penerbit UKM: Bangi. ISBN 967-942-747-1 (paperback). 32 pp. RM
10.00. Abdul Rahman Embong
The
central concern raised in this lecture goes beyond reflections on the normal
functioning of the university. It suggests going back to the idea of what
higher education is all about – the emancipation of the mind, and the
self-empowering of the individual. Very importantly, it enjoins the university
to reclaim and play its civilisational role of ‘cultural enlargement’ that
helps shape human beings with a particular attitude of the mind and habit of
the heart that would up-hold values of peace, freedom and respect for
difference and creativity. The ideas propounded in this publication should
provoke serious reflection and discussion by the university, academia,
students, policy makers, and the general public. ABDUL RAHMAN EMBONG, Ph. D, is Professor in the Sociology of Development and Principal Fellow at IKMAS. His other works with UKM Press include: Negara-bangsa: Proses dan Perbahasan (2000), Southeast Asian Middle Classes: Prospects for Social Change and Democratisation (ed., 2001), Globalisation, Culture and Inequalities: In Honour of the Late Ishak Shari (ed., 2004), and Development and Well-being (2005). “Professor Abdul Rahman Embong has produced a notable lecture: an urbane, thoughtful, intellectually discerning disquisition of real ethical stature and insight into the current world situation, the nature of peace and the threats to it, and the role of scholarship as the ‘friend’ and ‘ally’ of a culture of informed cooperation and peacefulness. This is a sustained reflection by one of Malaysia’s and the region’s notable intellectuals: one of great intellectual sophistication, of impeccable judgement and moral insight, and of impressive style.” Emeritus Professor Clive S.
Kessler
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