Today
the future of our plural societies is at the center of the current
public politics. In a context of internationalization and of
cultural diversification, solutions must be brought to address
culture cohabitation challenges with a respect of all differences.
Otherness can break apart but it can also be an enriching resource
for individuals and societies.
We
must create and implement cohabitation initiatives, and imagine
how we can build a society composed of individuals from different
socio-economic, cultural and religious backgrounds. Gathering
people from different cultures on one territory is not enough
to have a real melting pot. Living in community is never an
easy thing.
Living
together in a pluricultural society requires a constant learning
, openness to diversity and the implementation of sensibilization
and training processes. This apprenticeship must encourage intercultural
sensitivity development, which is essential for integrating
diversity and profiting from differences. Fostering intercultural
learning gives bases to a multicultural society which will grasp
the future positively and with a humanist approach.
In
the context of solidarity crisis, it is necessary to foster
the development of initiatives creating social ties. Activities
encouraging such intercultural learning can be a pertinent and
innovative leverage for rebuilding those ties.
Today,
projects on youth international mobility are a real field of
experiment for actions intercultural learning and in formal
and informal education. Those projects foster life in community,
participation to civil society and public life, interculturality,
the place of youth in civil society, initiatives and adaptability,
the democratization of mobility.
