Founding Director of KITA (Institute of Ethnic Studies), Distinguished Professor Datuk Dr Shamsul Amri, FASc will deliver a public lecture on to mark the occasion of the centenary of Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, arriving at St Catharine’s to study law. The lecture, which is organised by the Malay World Studies at St Catharine’s College, will be held on the 10th of March, 2023. His lecture, titled “Social Cohesion in Malaysia: Agree to Agree, Agree to Disagree” will begin at 17:00 at McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College. It is free and open to the public but required pre-registration in here. In his lecture, Shamsul A.B will reflect on the understanding of unity or national unity, official and popular, during this period, from a monolithic (1969) to a triconcept of unity (2013). He will elaborate these three faceted concepts, which were first operationalised in the National Unity Index 2018, and currently has become the basis of the National Unity Policy (2021), the Blueprint for National Unity (2021) and the Action Plan for National Unity (2022). All in all, Shamsul A.B. will emphasize the importance of social cohesion via the principle of “agree to agree and agree to disagree” which is anchored in a continuous process of bargaining, negotiation, and mediation.
Distinguished Professor Datuk Dr. Shamsul Amri Baharuddin is also a co-founding project manager of Global Malaysian Studies Network (GMSN), based in KITA, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM).
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