Building Pluralism in Central Asia: Outlining an Experiential Approach in Kyrgyzstan

David W. Montgomery

The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2021, vol. 19, issue 4, 98-110

Abstract: Pluralism recognizes diversity and aims to facilitate peaceful coexistence across a variety of interests and convictions. Across Central Asia, states have become increasingly authoritarian and in turn less favorable to implementing political and legal structures commonly seen as necessary for pluralism. The question about the potential for pluralism in Central Asia, however, is different from one on how to build pluralism. In this article, I argue that despite the less-than-sanguine prospects for pluralism to emerge across the region, pluralism can be built through programming that engages difference and creates new solidarities around shared experience, without the insistence on shared meaning.

Date: 2021
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