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UNESCO Chair, Cultural Diversity and Social Justice for a special event with Professor José Casanova, Professor Fethi Mansouri and Dr Hass Dellal AO
UNESCO Chair, Cultural Diversity and Social Justice for a special event with Professor José Casanova, Professor Fethi Mansouri and Dr Hass Dellal AO. This expert panel reflected upon religion and belonging in multicultural cities, including new research from an...
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UNESCO Chair, Cultural Diversity and Social Justice for a special event with Professor José Casanova, Professor Fethi Mansouri and Dr Hass Dellal AO.
Join the UNESCO Chair, Cultural Diversity and Social Justice for a special event with Professor José Casanova, Professor Fethi Mansouri and Dr Hass Dellal AO. This expert panel will reflect upon religion and belonging in multicultural cities, including new research...
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UNESCO Chair, Prof Fethi Mansouri took part in the panel discussion at ACU’s IFTAR dinner.
UNESCO Chair, Prof Fethi Mansouri took part in the panel discussion with Prof Jose Casanova moderated by journalist Alex Fein, on Faith and Secularism in Multicultural Societies at the Australian Catholic University's IFTAR dinner on Wednesday 7 June 2017
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UNESCO Chair, Comparative Research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice Report
UNESCO Chair, Comparative Research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice full term Report just released. Read the full UNESCO Chair...
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What Are Australian Values?
UNESCO Chair, Professor Fethi Mansouri speaks to Stephen O'Doherty on Hope 103.2 Professor Fethi Mansouri is concerned the changes to citizenship rules, including the introduction of an ‘Australian values test’, will incite unnecessary public alarm. He argues the best...
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UNESCO Chair, Fethi Mansouri’s submission to the ‘Select Committee on Strengthening Multiculturalism’
Select Committee on Strengthening Multiculturalism On 29 November 2016, the Senate resolved that the Select Committee on Strengthening Multiculturalism be established on 27 March 2017. The committee is to inquire into and report on ways of protecting and strengthening...
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Fethi Mansouri: ‘Baku Process’ message instils deep hope to jointly solve problems
The 4th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue is an action of certain significance. Today, the humanity faces serious challenges, daily social injustice and racial discrimination problems. The message of “Baku Process” gives great hope to jointly solve these problems....
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New collaborative UNESCO Publication ‘Interculturalism at the crossroads’
Today most societies across the world are witnessing rising levels of social and cultural diversity brought about by globalisation and in particular increased human mobility and significant advances in information and communications technologies. The dilemma,...
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UNESCO Chair, Professor Fethi Mansouri participated in HDR Mentoring session.
UNESCO Chair, Professor Fethi Mansouri, participated in an HDR Mentoring session and panel discussion, organised by UNESCO Research Fellow, Dr Amanuel Elias in his role as HDR coordinator with his fellow coordinator Dr Jessica Walton. The Mentoring session...
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Sara’s search for stereotype-free children’s book leads to PhD journey
Sara Cheikh Husain (Alsheikh) little dreamed that her interest in children’s picture books, motivated by her Visual Communication background and her position as a mother, would lead to a PhD scholarship with the UNESCO Chair for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice....
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New researcher joins team building a global picture of the impact of intercultural dialogue
ADI researcher Dr Amanuel Elias is working on a project reviewing global research on intercultural dialogue’s ability to build peaceful societies, as part of his new appointment as a Research Fellow with the UNESCO Chair, Cultural Diversity and Social Justice,...
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New faces join the UNESCO team
Two new faces have joined the UNESCO Chair for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice research team led by the UNESCO Chair and Alfred Deakin Professor Fethi Mansouri. Dr Amanuel Elias has taken up a role as Research Fellow while Mrs Sara Cheikh Husain (Alsheikh) has...
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Legal system, not citizenship reform, key to address perceived attacks on Australian values.
The Federal Government’s proposed citizenship reforms will do nothing to address a perceived attack on ‘Australian values’, according a Deakin University expert on cultural diversity and intercultural relations. “The Government does not need to...
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New Book: The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South
Read about Alfred Deakin Professor Fethi Mansouri and Dr David Tittensor's new edited book 'The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South' Find out...
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World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue in Baku
The 4th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue on 5-6 May 2017, will focus primarily on the topics such as the role of faith, religions, migration, human security, sport, education, art, sustainable development, violent extremism, business in building trust and...
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International Woman’s Day
ADI hosts more than 90 researchers, nearly half of them are women. ADI Director and UNECSO Chair holder, Professor Fethi Mansouri, is pictured with some of the female researchers who work in ADI. In honour of International Women's day, a story celebrating their work...
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‘Transition’ in Post-revolution Tunisia: Conditions for successful ‘Consolidation’ and Future Prospects
Tunisia is arguably the most successful case of all the Arab uprisings. How is it possible that Tunisian protests succeeded where all others failed or were dispersed? Professors F. Mansouri and R. Armillei argue that the Islamist Ennahda played a crucial role in...
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UNESCO Chair Orator calls on us to meet and hear the story of the ‘other’
Australians will be encouraged to reach out and meet a refugee, someone who has fallen through the cracks and learn their story at the 2016 Oration for the UNESCO Chair for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice. Read the full...
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Stories: The Place Where We Meet
Author and human rights advocate Dr Arnold Zable used stories to give a human face to Australia’s marginalised in the 2016 UNESCO Chair Oration. Read the full story.
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Sharing Culture for Shared Security
ADI Director engaged in international forum "Intercultural and interreligious dialogue are critical for human security" said Professor Fethi Mansouri, Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and the UNESCO Chair on Comparative...
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