The Surakarta Message

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Furthermore, we need to recognize that, more than ever before, the middle path approach is needed as a balancing instrument to solve the crises due to extremism of world dominating ideologies. The middle path will lay a firm foundation of ethical and moral orientation as its basis point of view and its fundamental character. The middle path manifests itself on the ground as a strong tradition of inclusiveness, tolerance, peaceful co-existence with the people of different ethnics, nations, and faiths.

In order to fight against violent extremism, global society should adopt the middle path principles of religious teaching and implementation. The middle path is in fact imbedded in religious traditions which pave ways and strengther, the spirit of living together in harmonious and peaceful brotherhood where noble values, ethical behaviors and compassionate deeds are shared and implemented together. Peaceful, just and prosperous world can only be achieved by strengthening human fraternity and developing the values and mainstreaming the teaching of the middle path.

With a view to disseminating those values, there is a need to identify the local wisdoms in the societies that might become models relevant to the practices of human fraternity and the middle path. Meanwhile, it is also crucial to engage, involve, and empower the millennials as the main future audience in our efforts to pass on those values in the digital world.

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An integrated and comprehensive dialogues and cooperation that involve local, national and international institutions, people and leaders of governments, media, educations, religions, business, and professional bodies, are instrumental in advancing the cause of human fraternity and the middle path through enlightenment in conjunction with a fast-changing realities of our time.For those causes, we the participants of the 8th World Peace Forum are committed to wholeheartedly strengthen the spirit of the human fraternity and implement the middle path in religious as well as social lives, as well as promoting the spirit and the path to global community. It is the time to formulate a shared peace theology, that is the theology of the middle path, and work and walk together on that path.

Surakarta, 18 November 2022

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