A Plea for Empathy: The Quest for Malaysian Unity

Dr. Chandran Muzaffar is the President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), an NGO which seeks to critique global injustice and to develop an alternative vision of a just and compassionate civilization guided by universal, spiritual and moral values. He is a Professor of Global Studies at University Sains Malaysia, Penang. Dr. Chandra has published more than twenty books on civilization dialogue, international politics, religion, human rights and Malaysian society. Among the publications are Protector (1979); Islamic Resurgence in Malaysia (1987); Human Rights and the New World Order (1993), Rights Religion and Reform (2002), Global Ethic or Global Hegemony? (2005), Hegemony; Justice; Peace (2008) and Religion & Governance (2009).

A Plea for Empathy, The Quest for Malaysians Unity, is a collection of twenty-three articles on Malaysian national unity that appeared in newspapers, magazines, academic journals and books published in Malaysia and abroad, between 1974 and 2008.