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Over the past decade, much research has been devoted to investigating how intercultural dialogue (ICD) can help build more prosperous, peaceful and sustainable societies. In our globalized world, and with the rapidly increasing pace of intercultural interactions within and between countries, communities and neighbourhoods, the need to build strong intercultural competencies is of the utmost importance.

The scope and hope for intercultural dialogue, as articulated by many scholars and numerous EU policies, is to recognize and embrace both what we share as well as what makes us different, and to create a peaceful environment of social cohesion despite diverse linguistic, religious or ethnic identities and varying political, historical or economic positions.

The TOGETHER project aims to respond to the challenges of these complex and diverse cultural relationships and to support efforts towards peace, reconciliation and democracy between EU countries and their neighbours by embedding intercultural dialogue in the agendas of local communities. The Project’s first output is a Comparative Analysis Report that presents the current state of awareness and development of intercultural dialogue in the Project’s five partner countries—Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Italy and Lebanon. It provides insights into how ICD is understood, shaped and reflected both in policy and in practice, identifies the needs of local actors involved in ICD, and outlines examples of best practice in each county.

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