Dear Readers, On March 15, 2019, a 16-year-old Swedish teenager led a worldwide strike which saw an estimated 1.4 million pupils from across the globe boycott school to demand more action to stop climate change. The response to this rallying call from over 2000 cities and with several hundreds of different cultures and languages lends […]
“Our sense of security comes from our generation, not our parents’…we are going to be with each other for the next fifty years. Our parents will soon be gone, and we will need to turn to our friends, which is why youth activism and young people speaking to each other is so important. Because our […]
In 2017, the UNESCO Category I institute, the Mahatma Ghandi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) oversaw the publication of a youth-led guide on the prevention of violent extremism through education. The 324-page document is a collation of over 150 case- study submissions from young educators from more than 50 countries. This […]
In the history of humankind, art has been used as a medium for activism to effect change in society. And in a time when young people are finding creative forms of protest and avenues to champion various causes, you might be interested in learning how the surfaces of auto-rickshaws in Pakistan are being used as […]
Here is an interview with the Mission Manager of Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in Prison under the Belgian Ministry of Justice, Selim Cherkaoui. Selim is a Countering-Violent-Extremism expert and a front-line practitioner who employs intercultural and interreligious dialogue in the development of workshops and tools for PVE (Prevention of Violent Extremism) Tell me: […]
Who am I? Navigating between home, host, and the global village: Consequences of multicultural team members’ identity configurations As the world becomes more connected, individuals increasingly cooperate and work together with people of different cultural backgrounds and hold multiple cultural identities. Still, we know little about what happens to our identities in the context of […]
Café Philo : un lieu de réflexion et de débat Animé par Dr Pia Stalder & Anne-Claude Lambelet Date/heure Date – 28/10/2020 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Location HEIG-VD Categories Culture Pop-Up Chaque société est le produit d’échanges entre nous individus qui la façonnons et la refaçonnons. De la sorte, chaque société est un […]
An interview with Russell Harlow, Head of Global Resourcing, TMA World An issue that appears to be recurrent in the intercultural field has to do with the fact that efforts being made at the academic level are somehow not translating into visible outcomes in terms of intercultural competence. Do you see a disconnect between academia […]
An interview with Dr Pia Stalder, Associate Professor of Intercultural Management, HEIG-VD, Yverdon I believe you have a new spin to share on how empirical research could shift its focus to address ICC and the benefits it could bring to the research. Can you tell me a bit more about it? In most – empirical […]
An interview with Daniel Glinz, Senior Coach and Trainer, cinfo, Biel What would you say are some specific shortfalls in the way intercultural competence/communication is taught in higher education? If we want to efficiently develop intercultural communication competence, we need to do it in a holistic way. This means that we have to get out […]
