Together in Diversity: Community Development and Intercultural Dialogue Conference

IACD co-hosted this conference in Dublin which marked 2008 as the EU Year of Intercultural Dialogue and featured international and Irish speakers, field visits and opportunity for discussion.

Over the past 50 years, cultural diversity inside and between EU member states has created opportunities and challenges unimaginable by the original signatories of the first European treaty. Issues such as migration, poverty, social inclusion and human rights are transforming both urban and rural contexts.

What is intercultural dialogue in this context?
What is the contribution of community development to intercultural dialogue?
What is the contribution of community development to creating an intercultural society?
What can we share and learn about integrating intercultural approaches within community development practice?
What are the challenges of this?

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A range of Irish and European bodies concerned with community development and interculturalism issues have come together to create a two-day European conference to reflect on these questions. The conference marked 2008 as the EU Year of Intercultural Dialogue and featured international and Irish speakers, field visits and opportunity for discussion.