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.
Intercultural Dialogue Index Report Launch
We are pleased to announce the official launch of the Intercultural Dialogue Index (ICDI) Report, including conceptual framing and country analysis of 52 countries. It is an initiative of the UNESCO Chair of Cultural Diversity and Social Justice.
Communicating Social Cohesion in Forced Displacement: A Framework for Protracted Situations of Encampment
Associate Research Fellow to the UNESCO Chair, Dr Valentina Baú, has recently published a new article and attended the EuPRA Conference.
2024 UNESCO Chair Oration: Mr Giridharan Sivaraman
The 2024 UNESCO Chair Oration was delivered by Mr Giridharan Sivaraman, Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, on ‘The Racism of Benign Assimilation’.
Your invitation to the ADI Conference 2024
Registration is now open for ‘Remaking Futures: ‘Justice, Equality and Global Flourishing’ in Burwood, Victoria, on the 25-26 November 2024.
Playing politics with migration is risky business for Australia
‘Migration policy is delicate, difficult to get right and fundamental to Australia’s future’ writes Professor Fethi Mansouri on 360info
An overdue vision for multicultural Australia
An article on the multicultural review framework, co-written by Andrew Jakubowicz and Fethi Mansouri for The Jewish Independent.




