The UNESCO Chair for Comparative Research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice at Deakin
A forum for communities, researchers and policy makers to examine critical issues of diversity and social justice in our globally connected world.
Through research, collaboration and capacity building, the Chair aims to build inclusive, just and peaceful societies by promoting respectful intercultural dialogue and combatting discrimination and structural inequality.
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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....
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,...