THEMATIC AXES

Taking the main theme as a basis, the Conference will be structured around four key subjects:

1. Building Intercultural Citizenship with Citizen Participation: This session will analyse and identify the aspects most likely to uphold and strengthen citizens’ individual and collective identity, the recognition of individual and collective rights and the raising of critical citizenship, which does not signify denying the existence of other cultures and other visions of life.
2. Education and Intercultural Dialogue: It is essential to reflect on the importance of interculturality as the very backbone of education and dialogue. Administrative and organizational processes in most countries in the world have overlooked the cosmovisions, knowledge and needs to learn of the people that form part of their society. Ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity should not only be recognized as ingredients of an educational process, but should also be used as a learning resource through intercultural dialogue.
3. Towards Intercultural Democratic Institutionality: Based on cultural plurality and the different identities that make up a plural society, it is possible to modify, reinforce and build forms of institutional democracy founded on the distinctive organizational, political and cultural features of the different groups that constitute it, while orienting them jointly towards the production and reproduction of life.
4. Cultural Diversity, General and Participation. This session will address intercultural relations also from the perspective of gender and the understanding that there is a male culture (or cultures) and a female culture (or cultures). It will attempt to take a step forward in the analysis of cultural diversity and participation by introducing a new variable.