Intercultural Dialogue
EUROCLIO is constantly seeking to create synergies with other organisations working in the field of intercultural dialogue as it believes that, as stated in the EUROCLIO Policy Paper 2020, “Responsible history, heritage and citizenship education challenges stereotypes about the ‘other’ communities, showing shared experiences and addresses topics such as diversity, inclusion and migration”. EUROCLIO maintains on-going relations with its partners through exchange of information, invitation to events, and joint implementation of projects.
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The Anna Lindh Foundation has the pleasure to launch the very first issue of the Anna Lindh Digest, an online resource for civil society bringing together a selection of news, in depth articles, contextual information and expert analysis on fields which are relevant for intercultural dialogue across the Euro-Mediterranean region. Please send your feedback and proposals to
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A wide group of stakeholders met on May 16-17 2011 during the Explorative Workshop on Cooperation Opportunities: “Teaching Intercultural Dialogue and Religious Diversity in the Euro-Mediterranean” in the beautiful Ismaili Centre in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop brought together amongst other representatives from the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research , the Swedish Institute Alexandria, the Anna Lindh Foundation, UNESCO, the UN Alliance of Civilizations , the Council of Europe’s Education Directorate and the Aga Khan Development Network. The task of the meeting was to start mapping the current opportunities of the institutions present to support and strengthen education for intercultural dialogue and religious diversity and to explore also further possibilities for work in the region. The different presentations addressed existing projects, tools, instruments, and materials EUROCLIO Executive Director Joke van der Leeuw-Roord talked about training professionals in inclusive teaching tools and resources respecting cultural and religious diversity. The meeting lead to the conclusions that already a variety of initiatives are taking place but that few of them actually are known to a wider audience targeted. Therefore they saw it as a priority to start mapping and analysing the materials as a first step towards implementation.
The 4th global forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations took place from11-13 December in Doha, Qatar.The meeting, with more than 2000 participants, among them many politicians and civil society actors, focused on ever-new fissures and fault lines across the globe, as well as on challenges to set transformative changes in societies of the 21st century in order to reconcile diversity and social cohesion and restore trust and tolerance. EUROCLIO, together with the UNAOC, the Council of Europe and the Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA)was responsible for the session on Conflict Transformation: Dealing with the Past to Build a Better Future – the Role of Teaching History. The more than 10 speakers, among them Executive Director Joke van der Leeuw-Roord, represented an wide international perspective with contributions from Canada, Italy,Israel,Palestine, Portugal and South America. The whole panel showed a remarkable shared understanding about the principles of a disarming approach to school history. Abulfaz Garayev, Minister of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan, Sven Alkalaj, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Christos Doulkeridis, Minister President, Ministry for Brussels Region, Belgium emphasized the importance of history teaching, while focusing on different aspects such as evidence based history, multiperspectivity and handling classroom diversity. The report of the meeting, produced by John Hamer, Council of Europe Consultant, will formulate a series of recommendations. For further information please go to 
Over 190 participants from 80 countries, representing all of the world’s continents, took part in the first United Nations Alliance of Civilisations Pre-Forum, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar in Doha on 2-4 May 2011. The Forum aimed to allow a diverse group of representatives of civil society to be heard as the agenda for the UNAOC Doha Forum 2011 is being drafted. In line with the thematic area’s of the UNAOC, issues discussed included Education, Youth, Media and Migration. In preparation to the Pre-Forum, the UNAOC had prepared a concept paper to lead the discussion. This paper reiterated the need for the UNAOC to work for a Turning Point as the world is experiencing important change at the moment. Jonathan Even-Zohar, EUROCLIO Senior Manager, was invited as panellist where National Plans and Regional Strategies were discussed and presented. He presented the EUROCLIO Project which have been adopted within the UNAOC Regional Strategies for Southeast Europe and for the Mediterranean. The main result of the pre-forum was a renewed understanding among all participants, including civil society, business, governmental and inter-governmental sectors, that it is time for the UNAOC to achieve a Turning Point at the Doha 2011 Forum. For more information please contact
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