Civilizations Exchange and Cooperation Foundation

Mission Statement

The goal of CECF is to foster cooperation rather than confrontation among different religions and cultures. It will focus on factors that led to the rise and fall of previous civilizations and how people of this millennium can benefit from lessons of the past in a world literally changing to a global village.

Overview

Many civilizations have passed through time, prospered, and then became extinct. Some of these civilizations have left remnants indicating their presence, and some have disappeared altogether, leaving only their name. There were factors that aided the growth and prosperity of these civilizations more than others and there were also reasons that led to their collapse.

It is for our benefit, in our short journey on earth, to study these reasons and factors to gain be nefit from the positive, and to avoid the negative. Despite what humanity has accomplished in the twentieth century, we still need to look through the window of the ages to benefit from the lessons of past civilizations, and listen to the voice that is heard by the mind, not by the ear.

The three Abrahamic religions - Islam, Christianity, and Judaism - call for peace, love, mercy, and cooperation. These values led to the prosperity of the civilizations in the past. Judaism flourished during the Golden Age of Islamic rule in Spain - which lasted for eight centuries, and during which the religious freedoms of the People of the Book were protected. The contribution of the Muslims in science, math, medicine, and astrology led to the Renaissance of the Christian Europe in the Medieval Age.

It is no doubt that the revealed religions had, and still have, a tremendous amount of influence on the people of those civilizations and the events they experienced. From this point, Civilizations Exchange and Cooperation Foundation (CECF) will focus on this subject and how the people of these religions underwent positive (and sometimes negative) experiences. It will consider how the people of the new millennium could witness true cooperation rather than confrontation.