One challenge is to agree on minimum criteria of good governance that are not perceived as a threat to cultural traditions and to draw on moral conce… - Nayef Al-Rodhan

Those who are outside the centres of power, because of the need for a positive and not simply a stable identity, are likely to find an independent identity appealing.

In a globalized world, security can no longer be thought of as a zero-sum game involving states alone. Global security, instead, has five dimensions that include human, environmental, national, transnational, and transcultural security, and, therefore, global security and the security of any state or culture cannot be achieved without good governance at all levels that guarantees security through justice for all individuals, states, and cultures.

Emotional Amoral Egoism indicates that ethnic conflict should be understood in terms of a reaction to a failure to satisfy a group’s basic physiological, security and ego needs due to discrimination, experienced by a group whose relations are premised, above all, on cultural affinities.