Though we live in a reality filled with opportunities to connect across continents and time zones, we are not guaranteed connectedness—authentic and meaningful experience wherein new possibilities are co-generated for ourselves and others. However, our experience in a culture dominated by Western, individualist ethos is typically monologic, a Buberian I-It instrumental relational structure—unidirectional, subject-object relationship. A self relates to the other as secondary,

The Academy is pleased to announce a proposed partnership with the Ignitor Fellowship initiative and to invite your participation. The Ignitor Fellowship (which has been initiated by the Nobel Peace Committee) advocates Dialogue as an essential aspect of peace building, and has an initiative to attract Masters Degree students from its ten Member Universities around the world in a supported developmental programme underwritten by its Nobel Laureates. If you would like to find