Dialogue Among Civilizations
In 1988, Tu was one of many public intellectuals who were asked by "Life" magazine to give their impressions on "The Meaning of Life". In 1994, he was featured in "A World of Ideas with Bill Moyer: A Confucian Life in America" (Films for the Humanities and Sciences). In 2001, he was appointed by Kofi Annan as a member of the United Nations' "Group of Eminent Persons" to facilitate the Dialogue Among Civilizations. In 2004, he gave a presentation on inter-civilizational dialogue to the Executive Board of UNESCO. He was also one of the eight Confucian intellectuals who were invited by the Singaporean government to develop the "Confucian Ethics" school curriculum.