Intercultural Dialogue and Multi-level Governance in Europe

This book offers an interdisciplinary and in-depth analysis of the relationship between intercultural dialogue and multi-level governance, seen from a human rights-based perspective. It brings together papers that were originally presented at international workshops organised by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the University of Padua in 2010-2011 with some additional contributions. The authors deal with a broad and diversified framework of concepts, policy approaches and linkages between multi-level governance and intercultural dialogue, particularly in the fields of education and civil society participation. The volume follows a multi-disciplinary approach and presents these readings and reflections for an audience of scholars, as well as individuals and organisations interested in issues around human rights, governance, education and civil society. Its innovative approach addresses the complex issues of today’s societies, which are in need of sustainable, coherent and responsible answers at both the conceptual and the policy level. In short, the book proposes a reading of interconnecting trajectories from governance building, education and civil society to intercultural dialogue in Europe. It is grounded in a human rights perspective and responds to the need for a policy-oriented but value-driven European future.

Léonce Bekemans holds the Jean Monnet Chair for Globalisation, Intercultural Dialogue and Inclusiveness in the EU at the University of Padua, where he is academic coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and collaborates with the Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights.

Contents: Léonce Bekemans: General Introduction – Antonio Papisca : Value Roots for Multi-level Governance and Intercultural Dialogue – Peter G. Xuereb : Values, Intercultural Dialogue and Making it Pay to be Good: a Research Agenda and Policy Approach for the European Union – Dario Velo: The Future for European Society: Subsidiarity, Federalism, New Humanism – Jan De Groof: Thoughts on Autonomy in Policy and Law within the European Higher Education Space – Luc Van den Brande: Multi-level Governance and Intercultural Dialogue: The Prospects for 2020 – Léonce Bekemans: A Cosmopolitan Perspective of Multi-level Governance in Europe – Frank Delmartino: Multi-level Governance in Regional Perspective – Luciano Morganti: Active Citizenship and the European Public Sphere - State of the Art and Way Forward – Hendrik Theunissen/Luc Van den Brande: The Committee of the Region’s White Paper on Multi-level Governance: Perspectives for a Partnership-based European Union 2020-2030 – Enzo Pace: Diversity in the Cities – Paul Breyne: The Practice of Territorial Dialogue in Europe: The View of a Practitioner – Rafa? Riedel: The Sub-national Authorities in a Multi-level Governance Setting - the Silesian Case Study – Andrea Cofelice: Interregional Parliamentary Assemblies: a New Layer in the Multi-level Global Governance System – Paolo De Stefani: The European Court of Human Rights: a New Actor of Multi-level Governance? – Claudia Pividori: The International Criminal Court in a Multi-level Governance System of International Criminal Justice – Enrique Banús: Education to Intercultural Dialogue – Gabriel Fragnière: Multiculturalism vs. Interculturalism in Educational Practices – Luc Van den Brande: Intercultural Dialogue in Territorial Cooperation: an Education Perspective – Béatrice Taulègne: The Regional Dimension of Educational and Intercultural Practices: a Forward-looking Multi-level Governance View of the CoR – Madlen Serban: Improving Intercultural Dialogue through Lifelong Learning and Multi-level Governance: the Experience of the European Training Foundation in the Partner Countries of the EU – Fadi Daou/Nayla Tabbara: Roadmap for a Euro-Mediterranean Cross-Cultural Education: the Experience of Adyan Understanding Programme – Lucia Saccon/Amelia Goffi: Education and Citizenship: a Good Practice from the Region of Veneto – Manuel Manonelles: Civil Society Participation in Intercultural Dialogue – Robin Wilson: Civil Society in Intercultural Dialogue, Democracy and Governance – Vesna ?opi?: Civil Society in Intercultural Dialogue: the Tension between Individual and Collective Rights – Marco Mascia: Civil Society Organisations in the European Architecture of Multi-level Governance – Yudhishthir Raj Isar: Cultural Organisations and Intercultural Dialogue – John Farina: The Role of Religion in Civil Society and Intercultural Dialogue: a Cross-Cultural and Comparative Perspective – Gemma Aubarell: Euro-Med Intercultural Trends and Major Challenges for the Civil Society Dialogue – Pietro de Perini: Intercultural Dialogue as a Means for Building Mutual Trust: the Role of Civil Society – Antonella Valmorbida: Participatory Democracy and the Role of Local Authorities and Civil Society – Laurens Bekemans/Ken De Cooman: Community-based and Context-driven Architecture for Educating Deaf Children in Burundi – Elena Pisani: Dialogue-building of Rural Development in Somalia: the Proposals of the International Somali Forum for Rural Development – Erika Ebermann Vera: A Socio-ecological Architecture: Building a Well for the Children of San Pedro in Peru. Inhaltsverzeichnis