Don't Repeat Mistakes from History
Professor Tan Sri Dato' Dzulkifli Abd Razak
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Luxemberuger Wort - 10/29/2010
Professor Abdul Razak Dzulkifli at the Academique Rentrée of the University of Luxembourg
Sharply-worded critique on history from an Easterner’s perspective: That was Abdul Razak Dzulkifli’s contribution to the “Rentrée Académique” of the University of Luxembourg. The university professor is governing a university in Malaysia, which is at the same time a Uno-research center. And he does not hesitate to lay the finger onto open wounds.
Comment
Luxemberuger Wort - 10/29/2010
Professor Abdul Razak Dzulkifli at the Academique Rentrée of the University of Luxembourg
Sharply-worded critique on history from an Easterner’s perspective: That was Abdul Razak Dzulkifli’s contribution to the “Rentrée Académique” of the University of Luxembourg. The university professor is governing a university in Malaysia, which is at the same time a Uno-research center. And he does not hesitate to lay the finger onto open wounds.
In his view, the world history is a cycle: Phases of dominance of the South-Eastern and the North-Western hemispheres are being exchanged between each other. In these ups and downs, only an objective understanding of history and the mental readiness to acknowledge achievements and legacies of each other would lead to stability and peace.
* The writer is the Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia. He can be contacted at vc@usm.my