A win-win situation for all parties concerned will be possible only if a way out of the crisis can be worked out through dialogue. Vision Having struggled for years to achieve the emancipation of his people, Nelson Mandela eschewed a Constitution for South Africa that would implant the supremacy of the black people over the whites. Rather, it was to be a new South Africa, born of a new vision where the rights of all South Africans would be guaranteed irrespective of colour or creed. This is perhaps what a dialogue among all parties must attempt to ensure for the present and for posterity. Our lives are constituted more by our own prejudices than by our judgements.
Prejudices are biases of our openness to the world.
They are simply conditions whereby we experience something - whereby what we encounter says something to us. Instead we welcome just that guest who promises something new to our curiosity''. The Sri Lanka we want to build for the future must be something new. This bias needs to be fostered so that our experience of the others, as being different from us, will help us build for the future a pluralist society where all religions, languages, and cultural differences could co-exist harmoniously, each respecting the rights of the other.