Council of Europe

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Council of EuropeWhite Paper on
Intercultural Dialogue

• Summary and Evaluation of responses to
  questionnaires on intercultural dialogue sent to
  NGOs
• Pascale Mompoint Gaillard

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Overview of surveys

• 63 responses
• 26 good practices
• 15 learning/teaching
• 5 student mobility
• 5 gender equality
• 6 religion related
• others
• High variation of response

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13 Questions

• The overall policy on cultural diversity in
  democratic societies
• The concept of cultural diversity and
  intercultural dialogue
• Promoting cultural diversity, intercultural
  dialogue and social cohesion at international,
  national and local level
• Expectations toward the CoE
• Examples of good practice

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The overall policy on cultural diversity in
democratic societies

• The relationship between culture and HR
• Mainstreaming ICD in all fields
• European identity
• Recognition of minorities
• The risks of emphasizing ICD

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The concept of cultural diversity and
intercultural dialogue

• A practical definition
• Gender related issues
• culture identity dialogue

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Promoting Cultural diversity, intercultural
dialogue and social cohesion at international,
national and local level

• Emphasis on particular fields of action
• Equal opportunity
• Non-formal education
• History
• Language
• Art
• Inter-religious dialogue
• Secular society

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Promoting Cultural diversity, intercultural
dialogue and social cohesion at international,
national and local level

• The obstacles to ICD
• Economical factors and equal opportunity
• Nationalist sentiment
• Bureaucracy
• Media
• Language
• Capacity for minorities to represent themselves

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Promoting Cultural diversity, intercultural
dialogue and social cohesion at international,
national and local level

• Innovative measures
• Well prepared dialogue
• Consultations
• Web forum

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Expectations toward the Council of Europe

• Give vision
• Promote recognition of civl society initiative
• Database of good practices
• Provide guidelines and identify competencies for
  ICD and IRD
• Media use the media, involve the media
• Harmonise and mutualise with European Commission,
  UNESCO...

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Examples of good practice

• Education, EDC, youth, language and culture
• 26 examples
• 15 selected examples based on

• innovation
• methodology
• choice of target group
• correspondence with an issue identified in the
  surveys