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World Economic Forum and Georgetown University Release Report on West-Islam Dialogue

January 21, 2008

The World Economic Forum and Georgetown University published a new report entitled Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of Dialogue. This first-of-its-kind report is a systematic and thorough overview of how Muslim and Western societies perceive and relate to each other at the political, social, economic, and cultural levels.

The main topic areas addressed in the report are international politics; citizenship and integration; religion, ethics, and ideology; education and intercultural understanding; and economic and social development. The report includes the Gallup Muslim-West Dialogue Index, which tracks global perceptions of the state of the dialogue, as well as media content analysis by Media Tenor International, which analyzes coverage of the Muslim and Western âœother❠in newspapers and television around the world.

Read the report Islam and the West: Annual Report on the State of Dialogue here. Read the Executive Summary here. Access the Muslim-West Dialogue Survey here. See further resources here.