Much of what we often consider knowledge is actually a point of view held without sufficient grounds: in a word, dogma. - 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.

International cooperation is required to prevent anarchic situations developing and the unmasking of ever-present brutality and injustice that results from fear for survival in such situations.

Considerations of justice are also integral to efforts to generate transcultural security in the first instance and, ultimately, transcultural synergy.