Clash of civilization

Present age is an age of development and human progress is on

the peak of that stage where he couldn't reach in his past. This
progress has also helped civilization to get nearer with one
another. Where communication has played an important role in
drawing them closer, it also has created some dangers for their
existence as well. Due to amalgamation of different civilizations
into a global community it has given a rise to the survival of
identity of every civilization. In broader sense, civilization not
only does mean the way of living or a specific culture of a society
rather it includes almost all the aspects of human life including
religion and historical heritage and a separate identity. Like all
living civilizations, every nation instinctively wants the existence
and the survival in the rapidly changing modern world. This strife
one the part of different nations and civilizations has created a
conflict, which can be termed as the clash of civilizations as no
one wants to lose its identity and that’s what causes the
confliction between different nations.

The term of civilization was first used in Bernard Lewis’s essay

titled “The Roots of Muslim Rage.” Afterwards, a controversial
theory “Clash of Civilizations” was put forward by Samuel P.
Huntington. The theory suggests that people’s cultural and
religious identity will be the primary source of conflict in the post-
Cold War period. It gained widespread attention after the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He divides the world’s
cultures into seven current civilizations, Western, Latin American,
Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu and Slavic-Orthodox.
According to him:

“The great divisions among humankind and

the dominating sources of conflict will be
cultural. The clash of civilization will
dominate global politics.”