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. 

Table of Contents

Editorial Note

General Introduction
Léonce Bekemans

PART I. GENERAL CONCEPTS

Introduction
Léonce Bekemans

Value Roots for Multi-level Governance and Intercultural Dialogue
Antonio Papisca

Values, Intercultural Dialogue and Making it Pay to be Good: a Research Agenda and Policy Approach for the European Union
Peter G. Xuereb

The Future for European Society: Subsidiarity, Federalism, New Humanism
Dario Velo

Thoughts on Autonomy in Policy and Law within the European Higher Education Space
Jan De Groof

Multi-level Governance and Intercultural Dialogue: The Prospects for 2020
Luc Van den Brande

PART II. GOVERNANCE OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

Introduction
Léonce Bekemans

SUBSECTION I. PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES

A Cosmopolitan Perspective of Multi-level Governance in Europe
Léonce Bekemans

Multi-level Governance in Regional Perspective
Frank Delmartino

Active Citizenship and the European Public Sphere – State of the Art and Way Forward
Luciano Morganti

SUBSECTION II. SECTORAL APPROACHES

The Committee of the Region’s White Paper on Multi-level Governance: Perspectives for a Partnership-based European Union 2020-2030
Hendrik Theunissen and Luc Van den Brande

Diversity in the Cities
Enzo Pace

The Practice of Territorial Dialogue in Europe: The View of a Practitioner
Paul Breyne

SUBSECTION III. CASE STUDIES

The Sub-national Authorities in a Multi-level Governance Setting – the Silesian Case Study
Rafał Riedel

Interregional Parliamentary Assemblies: a New Layer in the Multi-level Global Governance System
Andrea Cofelice

The European Court of Human Rights: a New Actor of Multi-level Governance?
Paolo De Stefani

The International Criminal Court in a Multi-level Governance System of International Criminal Justice
Claudia Pividori

PART III. EDUCATION TO INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

Introduction
Léonce Bekemans

SUBSECTION I. PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES

Education to Intercultural Dialogue
Enrique Banús

Multiculturalism vs. Interculturalism in Educational Practices
Gabriel Fragnière

Intercultural Dialogue in Territorial Cooperation: an Education Perspective
Luc Van den Brande

SUBSECTION II. SECTORAL APPROACHES

The Regional Dimension of Educational and Intercultural Practices: a Forward-looking Multi-level Governance View of the CoR
Béatrice Taulègne

Improving Intercultural Dialogue through Lifelong Learning and Multi-level Governance: the Experience of the European Training Foundation in the Partner Countries of the EU
Madlen Serban

SUBSECTION III. CASE STUDIES

Roadmap for a Euro-Mediterranean Cross-Cultural Education: the Experience of Adyan Understanding Programme
Fadi Daou and Nayla Tabbara

Education and Citizenship: a Good Practice from the Region of Veneto
Lucia Saccon and Amelia Goffi

PART IV. CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION TO INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

Introduction
Léonce Bekemans

SUBSECTION I. PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES

Civil Society Participation in Intercultural Dialogue
Manuel Manonelles

Civil Society in Intercultural Dialogue, Democracy and Governance
Robin Wilson

Civil Society in Intercultural Dialogue: the Tension between Individual and Collective Rights
Vesna Čopič

Civil Society Organisations in the European Architecture of Multi-level Governance
Marco Mascia

Cultural Organisations and Intercultural Dialogue
Yudhishthir Raj Isar

The Role of Religion in Civil Society and Intercultural Dialogue: a Cross-Cultural and Comparative Perspective
John Farina

SUBSECTION II. SECTORAL APPROACHES

Euro-Med Intercultural Trends and Major Challenges for the Civil Society Dialogue
Gemma Aubarell

Intercultural Dialogue as a Means for Building Mutual Trust: the Role of Civil Society
Pietro de Perini

Participatory Democracy and the Role of Local Authorities and Civil Society
Antonella Valmorbida

SUBSECTION III. CASE STUDIES

Community-based and Context-driven Architecture for Educating Deaf Children in Burundi
Laurens Bekemans and Ken De Cooman

Dialogue-building of Rural Development in Somalia: the Proposals of the International Somali Forum for Rural Development
Elena Pisani

A Socio-ecological Architecture: Building a Well for the Children of San Pedro in Peru
Erika Ebermann Vera

Notes on Contributors