DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATION AND THE OIC

Ali Sanaie

Dr. Sanaie is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of
Administrative Sciences and Economics. He has also previously taught at
Isfahan University in Iran. He holds his PhD from Loughborough University
Business School, and did his PhD discertation "Marketing & Export." He
has published three books: Marketing and Electronic Commerce, Joining of
Iran to WTO & Forecasting its Effect on Industries, Principle of
Marketing and Marketing Management.

As a significant subset of the developing world, the member
countries of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OICMCs) will ultimately
be faced with the serious impact of globalisation on one hand, and with the
positive implications of dialogue among Civilizations on the other. Their own
efforts over a period of more than 20 years to improve regional co-operation and
the integration at the OIC level seem to have made a little impact.

Dialogue among civilizations apprehends both listening and
speaking. The dialogue is not and should not be a one-way street. The compassion
of it all is that we even do not listen to ourselves (e.g. The OIC member
counties having over 23 percent of world's population, 30% of resources, and 20%
of the world soil consider as biggest international organisation, but its share
of intra-trade in OIC's total external is only 9.5%, which shows an explicit
indicator of insufficiency of civilization dialogue, trade, and economic
co-operation among these countries).

In order to be successful in dialogue, we must first know
ourselves( i.e. OIC members), and then study others. This paper attempts to
review the impact of globalisation and dialogue among civilization on the OIC
member states during the last two decades, and will suggest some necessary
conditions for dialogue that can be accomplished.