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Cross-cultural Relations

Cross-cultural Relations

At the beginning of the 21st Century, there are two predominant trends that appear to be contradictory: the globalisation process and a growing awareness of the diversity of cultures and civilisations in the world. In this sense, the harmony, resulting from a necessary dialogue among civilizations, is not to be produced in spite of our differences, but thanks to them.
Cultures and its dialogue, are not an element more constitutive of human societies, but their main fundamental axis. Each human civilization has its irreducible power of creativity. Mankind is faced with the dilemma of either sacrificing cultural diversity on the altar of globalisation or using intercultural dialogue to enrich the mutual knowledge of different cultures, a fundamental step towards guaranteeing the possibility of a fair world, in peace and harmony, making full use of some of the instruments that globalisation has developed.

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Cross-cultural Dialogue for Common Action, Beijing, February 27, 2003
:: Michel Sauquet :: Catherine Guernier :: February 2003 ::

This text considers the complexity of the challenge to live in peace in a world of diversity, and the way whose FPH integrates the factor of cultural diversity on a world level in its work (lightly-edited machine translation) This text considers the complexity of the challenge to live in peace in a world of diversity, and the way whose FPH integrates the factor of cultural diversity on a world level in its work. Four open observations to the discussion are presented here: The cross-cultural dialogue asks of the time, and don't function by approximation. The concept of cultural (...)

Migrations and Multicultural Citizenship
:: Roger Winterhalter :: Cyril Kretzschmar :: September 2000 ::

This document exposes propositions for the construction of a multi-cultural Europe, respectful of diversity. The number of initiatives expressing the desire to build a social Europe above the simple political and economic dimension is on the increase. Such a development will entail tackling both the issues of migration and cross-cultural exchanges. The document starts by recalling certain historic facts : Europe is not the result of a democratic process of citizens, it has stemmed essentially from Christian and social liberal cultural influences, it has tried to create a certain federal (...)

Intercultural Life in the Neighbourhood: How to open oneself to others?
:: Réseau Cultures Europe :: March 1999 ::

The Réseau Cultures Europe has organised a meeting gathering various neighbourhood co-ordinators in multicultural urban European neighbourhoods. This document exposes the interrogations on multicultural experiences, the methodology used and the responses of grass-root actors. The 'Réseau Cultures Europe' has implemented a programme in order to connect people living or acting in multicultural urban European neighbourhoods. It is under this programme that they organised a meeting gathering various neighbourhood co-ordinators in order to go further into questions about multicultural (...)

The hell, it is not the other, as said Sartre. It is to refuse that the other become themselves :: November 1998 ::

This text is a warning of Michel Sauquet for his book "one morning on Babel, one evening in Manhattan", written following the announcement of the news of the attempts that struck New-York September 11, 2001. (lightly-edited machine translation) This text is a warning of Michel Sauquet for his book "one morning on Babel, one evening in Manhattan", written following the announcement of the news of the attempts that struck New-York September 11, 2001. This news occurred indeed at the time of the sending to the impression of this literary text, that rests on the questioning on the (...)

Innovating with Tradition
:: Edith Sizoo :: March 1993 ::

After the failure of introducing modern agricultural methodologies in the lake Titicaca, an experience of restoring the biological diversity through traditional approaches. At the conference "Living with the Earth" organised by the Intercultural Institute of Montreal, Canada, in May 1992, David Tuschneider, working for the Bolivian NGO Hisbol, witnessed of the following experience. "There is an experience in 80 communities in a province close to Lake Titicaca. These 80 communities got together about 10 years ago and said, let's create a technical school for young people and let's train (...)

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