I agree with Huntington and Said that the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. However, I believe that the differences in the ideologies and economies of different civilizations do play a significant role in breeding conflict. The ideologies of Islamic countries and the ideologies of Western countries have clashed just like the different cultures of Islamic countries and the Western countries. Many times I find that ideology and culture sometimes overlap each other. An example of this is democracy and theocracy. Democracy is considered to be an ideology in Western countries. It can also be considered part of the culture. Theocracy can be considered to be an ideology of Islamic countries. It can also be considered to be part of Islamic culture. The source of conflict during the Cold War was ideological and economical. It was ideological because it involved democracy versus communism. It was economical because it involved capitalism versus communism or socialism.
I believe the best way to avoid conflict is to not degrade other people's cultures and ideologies. It is important to realize that it is fine to favor a certain culture or tradition unless that culture or tradition does things that are immoral. However, it is not fine for people to consider their culture and tradition to be superior to someone else's culture and tradition. This breeds conflict. I favor democracy and other Western ideologies. However, I would not degrade Islamic culture or other cultures. I realize that Islam preaches and teaches many good things. Certain Muslims have the wrong understanding about the teachings of Islam. They use the teachings of Islam to justify and support killing people. This not only goes on within the Islamic religion. It wen on within the Christian religion. People who lived in the 1600s would use the teachings of Christianity to justify not embracing science and killing those who did embrace science. People were killed during the witchcraft trials in New England because they embraced and understood science.