Interview with Amartya Sen, Nobel economist, IPS video services

The "war on terror" is not everybody's language, nor for that matter is "globalisation", says Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen. Nor is anyone right to think that religious radicalism is really an Islamic problem, he says. Such views made Sen, an Indian, a natural choice to lead the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding in its search for civil paths to peace. The group's report titled "Civil Paths to Peace" was launched in London last week. That report was presented to Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Ugandan capital Kampala Nov. 23-25, 2007. The report follows a mandate from Commonwealth Heads of Government to look into the causes of conflict, violence and extremism in the 53 members of the Commonwealth, the countries that once formed the British Empire.

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