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Some Thematic and Strategic Priorities for Developing Research on Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Cultural Societies
MOST Discussion Paper No. 13
 
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Mass international migration, state centralization, the devotion of a growing army of intellectuals to the codification of the cultural diversity of our planet, the search for identity in an increasingly urbanized and anonymous world, and the political mobilization of ethnicity have pushed the problems associated with multiculturalism to the top of the political and research agendas. Whether societies are now more or less multicultural as before is an open issue. Although mass international migration has brought together people from widely diverse origins, state-guided cultural and political homogenization policies and improvements in means of mass communication have tended to reduce the world's cultural diversity. What distinguishes our age, however, is that we are more conscious of this diversity and that ethnicity has become politicized to such an extent that the major military conflicts of this century have been expressed as ethnic or national conflicts. This justified inclusion of the topic « Multi-ethnic and Multicultural Societies » as one of the themes which articulate the activities of the MOST Programme.

The present paper proposes a strategy to guide the development and funding of research projects around this topic. The strategy is conditioned by the spirit that guides the MOST Programme, which is to contribute both to the development of policies that facilitate ethnic co-operation within multicultural societies and to the strengthening of the multicultural character of these societies. This is a specially difficult problem to address because the cost of policies against ethnic conflict can sometimes be the undermining of the multicultural character of these societies and, reciprocally, multicultural policies can in some instances promote ethnic conflict. The strategy proposed here is also channelled to prioritize those lines of research for which the MOST Programme is better suited than other funding agencies. In particular, research projects that have a heavy comparative component.
 
Author(s) Juan Díez Medrano
Website (URL) http://www.unesco.org/most/medrano.htm
Publisher UNESCO
Publication Year 1996





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