Journal Article: Public Attitudes Towards Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Australia

Oct 8, 2020 | News

New Journal Article by Professor Fethi Mansouri is coauthored with Dr Amanual Elias and Ms Reem Sweid. The growing intellectual and policy debate around optimal approaches to diversity governance, particularly in relation to criticism of multiculturalism, is now...

Journal Article: On the Discursive and Methodological Categorisation of Islam and Muslims in the West: Ontological and Epistemological Considerations

Oct 2, 2020 | News

Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently published in Religions (MDPI). This article reflects on the ethical and epistemological challenges facing researchers engaged in contemporary studies of Islam and Muslims in the West. Particularly, it focuses on the impact of the...

New Briefing Paper: The Socio-Cultural Impact of Covid-19: Exploring the Role of ICD in Emerging Responses

Sep 10, 2020 | COVID-19, News, UNESCO, UNITWIN Network

Through inductive exploration of authentic, local, community responses to the COVID-19 crisis, this brief examines the new context in which the ICD agenda is being pursued, complementing the many existing quantitative analyses of the socio-cultural impact of...

UNESCO United Against Racism message rallies leading personalities to fight against racial discrimination

Aug 7, 2020 | News, UNESCO

UNESCO Press Release No.2020-75 Paris, 05 August — Leading personalities from all over the world have joined UNESCO in denouncing mounting racial discrimination in an advocacy video, United Against Racism, released today. The 2’41” black and white film features...

News Item – UNESCO Statement on Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

Jul 22, 2020 | News, UNESCO, UNITWIN Network

Hagia Sophia: UNESCO deeply regrets the decision of the Turkish authorities, made without prior discussion, and calls for the universal value of World Heritage to be preserved Paris, Friday 10 July – The Director-General of UNESCO deeply regrets the decision of...

What lies beneath? COVID-19 and the racial politics of face masks

Jul 16, 2020 | COVID-19, News, UNITWIN Network

This opinion piece has been written by Scheherazade Bloul, PhD candidate to Professor Fethi Mansouri, UNESCO Chair for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice and coauthored by Dr Shakira Hussein, a researcher based at the University of Melbourne. This piece was...