Shaping Interculturalism in Youth Work Conference
On November 28th 2008 (marking the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue) the National Youth Council of Ireland hosted a conference entitled Shaping Interculturalism in Youth Work.
Video of Keynote address by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
NYCI thanks Metrix Chipeta of MUVI Television for filming this footage. Metrix was part of the Zambian group who participated in Zambia/Ireland Exchange project in 2009.
Shaping Interculturalism in Youthwork - Conference Report
This report provides a summary of the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) conference “Shaping Interculturalism in Youth Work: Exploring the successes, challenges and barriers facing the youth sector” held in Dublin on 28th November 2008. It reviews the presentations and summarises the main themes arising from the roundtable discussions.
The one day event showcased successful youth projects and promoted debate on the barriers and challenges facing the youth sector as it embraces interculturalism. The conference was aimed at heads of organisations, policy makers, decision makers, youth workers, volunteers and anyone interested in interculturalism in youth work. One hundred and fifty five (155) delegates attended the conference.
Download the PDF of the full report here: Shaping_Interculturalism_Conference_Report.pdf
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is originally from Uganda and arrived in Britain in 1972. She is a distinguished journalist who has written for The Guardian, Observer, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Evening Standard, The Mail and other newspapers and is now a regular columnist on The Independent and London’s Evening Standard.
She is also a radio and television broadcaster and author of several books. From 1996 to 2001 she was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research which published True Colours on the role of government on racial attitudes and is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Centre.
She created After Multiculturalism, a pamphlet re-assessing the multicultural ideology in Britain which was the first critical examination by a social democrat of a settled and now damaging orthodoxy.
