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In the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) the international research and educational program “The dialog of civilizations: the East and the West” is being realized during last two decades. In the framework of this program the PFUR held around 20 international conferences in Moscow and 3 in Cairo. During these conferences were scoped multiple problems of intercivilization dialogue, cultural identity and globalization, the means of world perception in the context of civilization interaction, multiculturalism, globalization and justice, interrelations of Islamic and western world, the problem of terrorism, the philosophy of education, the questions of European integration etc. In the conferences took part the representatives of the leading universities and research institutes of Russia, the USA, the Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, China, Portugal, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Iran etc.     

This international conference "The Interaction of Cultures and Values: Philosophical Crossroad" continues researching the traditions in totally new conditions of “the end of the world as we know it” and declares its main aim as understanding, discussing and projecting of new mechanisms of intercivilization communication in the context of ontological, epistemology, and value foundations of the dialog of civilizations in the context of the modern crisis and the future post-crisis world taking into consideration the crisis of globalization. The main task of the conference is to provide complex reconsideration of the notion “the dialog of civilizations” in new conditions on different conceptual levels: from fundamental (ontological) to methodological and categorical. With such comprehension the dialog of civilizations can be substituted by another term “dialogue of philosophical cultures” which accounts new deep meanings and possibilities of the recent changes, occurred over the last decade. Now humanity has unique opportunity to build solidarity on other foundations, and the most expressive term for it would be the term “dialogue of philosophical cultures”. That is possible because nowadays much more intellectuals, actors of political and civil society and common citizens clearly see insolvency of the dominant value system. Alternative models of philosophical, political and social understanding of the present and projecting of the future gained more allies not only in the South, but in the North.