The Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM) of the Pompeu Fabra University organizes the presentation of the research project “Accept Pluralism”, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCA) of the European University Institute in Florence.
The project, which will be launched en Barcelona the 9th March 2011, aims to explore and understand the principles, practices and institutional arrangements that promote tolerance, acceptance and respect for ethnic and religious diversity in European societies. This is to identify key issues for the design and implementation of policies in this area.
Recently, as a consequence of migratory flux, Europen has experienced increasing tensions among national (ethnic or religious) majorities and minorities, especially with marginalized Muslim communities. In this geopolitical context, the Project aims to explore if the European societies have become more or less tolerant during the past 20 years.
Bringing together policy makers, ONGs, journalists and academics from a wide range European countries (western European states with a long experience in receiving and incorporating immigrant minorities; 'new' migrant host countries and central European countries that have recently joined the EU), the Project will generate a State of the Art Report on Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe, a Handbook on Ideas of Tolerance and Cultural Diversity in Europe, a Tolerance Indicators’ Toolkit (where qualitative and quantitative indicators may be used to score each country’s performance on tolerating cultural diversity) and a book on Tolerance, Pluralism and Cultural Diversity in Europe, mainly aimed to an academic readership.
URL: ACCEPT PLURALISM //GRITIM source: http://www.medgov.net