1. session: facilitator: date: CCIVS seminar on cultural diversity1 International solidarity or diversity consumption Our approach to cultural diversity CCIVS 2006

2. session: facilitator: date: CCIVS seminar on cultural diversity2 Background Living and working together to learn from each other as an issue since the beginning of the movement in the 1920ies World War II Levi Strauss et al published important reference proving that racism has no scientific basis. (eg; race et histoire, 1952) De-colonisation, end of the block system, explosion of ethnic conflicts Development of trainings on Intercultural learning based on static ideas using the notion of “nationality” or “ethnic groups” as a main basis for distinction among internally homogeneous groups. Progress in communication technology, increased mobility, migration: globalisation 11/09/2001 :Increasing antonymic rhetoric creating a Muslim – Western divide The Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity of UNESCO (2003): importance of “multiple identities” and “plural societies” as a founding act for a new ethic The wish to adapt the methodologies used in workcamps to transmit another “world vision” based on another notion of identities and culture

3. session: facilitator: date: CCIVS seminar on cultural diversity3 Our credo Respect for cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue is one of the surest guarantees for development and peace UNESCO 2006

4. session: facilitator: date: CCIVS seminar on cultural diversity4 Cultural pluralism Societies are increasingly diverse or are increasingly capable of admitting the diversity which has always existed within their national boarders Persons and groups have varied, plural and dynamic identities

5. session: facilitator: date: CCIVS seminar on cultural diversity5 The Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity Article 1 Cultural Diversity: The common heritage of humanity Culture takes diverse forms across time and space. This diversity is embodied in the uniqueness and plurality of the identities of the groups and societies making up humankind. As a source of exchange, innovation and creativity, cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature. In this sense, it is the common heritage of humanity and should be recognized and affirmed for the benefit of present and future generations.

6. session: facilitator: date: CCIVS seminar on cultural diversity6 What we would like to transmit It’s not enough to bring people together to live side by side, you need to accompany their experience to facilitate the learning process of all stakeholders involved in the project A workcamp can be a ‘nice-to-have’ experience or a turning point in a participant’s life We would like participants and organisers or voluntary service projects to develop a new outlook on the plurality and dynamism of cultures and identities and adapt their intercultural learning materials to this vision. We would like to more clearly formulate reflections, games, ideas and exercises, which can be used in a workcamp setting to transmit these ideas

7. session: facilitator: date: CCIVS seminar on cultural diversity7 Reading material, which inspired us Leeds, C. Stereotypes, national identities, values and europeanness, 1996 Maalouf, A. Les identités meurtières, 1998. Study on the long term effects of the participation in international youth encounters for the development of the personality of the participants, University of Regensburg, Dep for Social Psychology, 2006 TITLEY, G. ‘Plastic, political and contingent’, Culture and intercultural learning in DYS activities UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity

8. session: facilitator: date: CCIVS seminar on cultural diversity8 Importance of Stereotypes: You see what you are prepared to see Importance of Motives: you experience what you are prepared to experience You progress from where you start You need to listen in order to hear and you need to watch in order to see