In Dialogue: CID Occasional Papers, 1: Intercultural Dialogue as the Elephant in the Room: Moving from Assumptions to Research Investigations by Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz.
This is the first issue of a new publication series, In Dialogue: CID Occasional Papers. The goal of this first occasional paper is to synthesize the many publications using the term “intercultural dialogue” explicitly, summarize what has been learned, and outline what remains to be studied.
Intercultural dialogue might be called the elephant in the room, a metaphor referring to something obvious which is nonetheless ignored. Most often, practitioners and diplomats use the term intercultural dialogue, but they rarely define it, and conduct little to no research in order to discover how it works, but only hold it up as a desired end. Academics, who certainly conduct research, rarely use this term, thus have rarely studied it, although some research by other names sheds light on how it works.
Leeds-Hurwitz, W. (2020). Intercultural dialogue as the elephant in the room: Moving from assumptions to research investigations. In Dialogue: CID Occasional Papers, 1. Retrieved from:
https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/op1-leeds-hurwitz-final-1.pdf
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