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Ethnic and cultural diversity is a fact which can and should
enrich social life in all parts of the world. One focus of research
under MOST is on the nature of change in multi-cultural
and multi-ethnic societies in which issues of education,
culture and religion, identity and human needs, democratic governance,
conflict and cohesion interact in complex patterns. These issues
require interdisciplinary, comparative, and culturally sensitive
research which may furnish information useful for the peaceful
and democratic management of multi-cultural and multi-ethnic
societies.
This research should help design policies that contribute to
the goals of achieving equality of citizenship rights between
ethnic groups and the avoidance and solution of ethnic conflict.
MOST networks
- APMRN Asia Pacific Migration Research
Network
Social and political aspects of international migration and
growing ethnocultural diversity in the region
accepted by the Scientific Steering Committee
- Ethno-net Africa : a network for
comparative studies, monitoring and evaluation of ethnic conflicts
accepted by the Scientific Steering Committee
Publications
Meetings
- 1999 Religion and Cultural Diversity
Conference organised by The Australian Multicultural
Foundation, in association with the European Multicultural
Foundation and UNESCO, with the support of Multicultural Affairs
Queensland and Department of Immigration and Multicultural
Affairs, London, England, 31 October 1999
Related Links
- Forced
Migration Review is the in-house journal of the Refugee
Studies Centre, University of Oxford. FMR provides a forum
for debate on the most immediate issues facing refugees and
internally displaced people and those working with them.
- Integration-Net:
created by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) as a communications
and research tool to support the work of the Canadian settlement
community, and to develop both a national and international
exchange of information and ideas about best practices on
integration strategies and programs.
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