Center for Intercultural Dialogue

Maja Nenadovic Profile

Maja Nenadovic holds a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam, and is the co-founder of the Croatian Education and Development Network for the Evolution of Communication – HERMES and of Reflectory, a consultancy in the fields of conflict transformation, social cohesion and civic engagement.

Maja Nenadovic

Maya is a monitoring and evaluation specialist, dialogue facilitator, human rights & civic education specialist, debate coach, critical pedagogy practitioner, and program design consultant. She has worked in 40+ countries worldwide. Since 2012, she has implemented “Across Divides – Training Workshops for Depolarizing Communication,” a methodology that she developed and tested in the field through a series of workshops and dialogues with both individuals using discriminatory and hate speech rhetoric, and with people and groups targeted by it. In addition she serves as a Board member of the Global Dialogue Collective.

Work for CID:

Maja Nenadovic participated in a CID/UNESCO focus group for the Futures of Education Initiative, and is participating in an expert group organized by the Center.

Polina Ivanova Profile

Polina Ivanova is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, in Germany.

Polina Ivanova

Her research interests lie in the areas of migration and migrant integration, focusing on international students, refugees and asylum seekers, and highly skilled migrants. She is also interested in intercultural communication, particularly in the context of higher education. Her work primarily centres on Japan, with comparative analyses extending to Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Her recent books include Civil Society and International Students in Japan: The Making of Social Capital (Routledge, 2023) and Refugees and Asylum Seekers in East Asia: Perspectives from Japan and Taiwan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

Work for CID:

Polina Ivanova will be participating in an expert group for the Center.

Yehuda Silverman Profile

Yehuda Silverman is a peacebuilding pracademic (practitioner/academic) who specializes in conflict prevention, analysis, and transformation. He is currently an Instructor at Northwestern University’s Civic Education Project (in the US) and occasionally teaches at Brock University (in Canada).

Yehuda Silverman

At Acquaint, he serves as a Cultural Exchange Assistant, with an emphasis on cultivating partnerships to foster inclusivity on their free online global platform, where people engage in one-on-one conversations with individuals from over 100 nations. He has also developed and facilitated micro-courses on intercultural communication, along with mentoring many participants.

He is additionally a Facilitator at Civic Synergy and the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy in collaboration with AMIDEAST, and a Transatlantic Educators Dialogue Fellow at the University of Illinois: European Union Center. He also mentors emerging peacebuilders through UNESCO Global Youth Community, Initiatives of Change, and United People Global. He previously had a postdoctoral academic appointment as the Faculty Diversity Fellow at Ursuline College, where he developed and taught the course Intrapersonal Peace and Conflict Prevention.

Some of his research interests connect directly to his previous United Nations fellowships, which includes being a UNAOC Fellow, UNESCO MGIEP Fellow, and WFUNA Peace Fellow. In these capacities and beyond, he focuses on understanding the root causes of conflict and reimagining peace, particularly in transforming education. His specialization also comprises advancing autoethnography in the peacebuilding field to cultivate social cohesion. Yehuda’s Ph.D. is in Conflict Analysis and Resolution with a concentration in International Peace from Nova Southeastern University, and he is also a certified Facilitator in Intercultural Dialogue from the UN Habitat and Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation from the University of Rhode Island.

Selected publications:

McIntyre, S., & Silverman, Y. (2024). Reimagining the 9/11 aftermath: Transforming violent extremism in a case study about youth, prevention, heritage, and resiliency. In L. Lixinski & Y. Zhu (Eds.), Heritage, conflict, and peace-building (pp. 206-223). Routledge.

McIntyre. S., & Silverman, Y. (2024). Cultivating social cohesion through conflict transformation in educational environments. Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference, 2(1), 9-18.

Silverman, Y. (2020). The dynamics of intrapersonal conflict resolution. The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences, 17, 18- 23.

Lee, K. S., Silverman, Y., Fouda, I., Stalter, S., Corvalán, A., Ferreira, E., & Cvetković, K. (2019). Recommendations made by the alumni of UNAOC programs to the United Nations Envoy on Youth, UNAOC, Summary Report.

Silverman, Y. (2018). Addressing the root causes of violent extremism: Analyzing intrapersonal frameworks to avert radicalization, United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Final Report.

Georgakopoulos, A., Duckworth, C., Silverman, Y., & Redfering, K. (2017). Supporting literacy and peace education with youth: A community mentorship study. Peace Studies Journal, 10(2), 24-41.

Work for CID:

Yehuda Silverman participated in the CID/UNESCO focus groups for the Futures of Education Initiative, and is participating in an expert group organized by the Center.

U California Global Programs (USA)

Lead Program Specialist, Global Programs, University of California Education Abroad Program, Goleta, CA, USA. Deadline: 27 October 2024.

The Lead Program Specialist is a technical leader with a high degree of knowledge in the overall field and recognized expertise in specific areas; problem-solving frequently requires analysis of unique issues/problems without precedent and/or structure. May manage programs that include formulating strategies and administering policies, processes, and resources; functions with a high degree of autonomy. Applies advanced, specialized student services expertise, advises on complex student issues. Identifies systemic problems and issues and proposes solutions to management. Reporting to the Managing Supervisor (Manager) the Lead Program Specialist provides leadership to the Program Specialist team and serves as the primary operating liaison between the University of California Education Abroad Program, Systemwide Office (UCEAP) and (a) UC Study Center staff worldwide; (b) Study Abroad offices on the UC campuses; and (c) UC students participating in UCEAP. Directly responsible for supervision of Study Abroad Advisors and all operational and logistical activities pertaining to an assigned portfolio within the approximately 6,000 UCEAP program participants each year, in over 40 countries worldwide. Collaborates with all program teams to develop and integrate best practices and provide back-up support. Works to ensure these processes are as advanced and efficient as possible. Maintains primary responsibility for communicating policies pertaining to all operational aspects of students’ programs within their assigned portfolio (applications, visa requirements, housing, on site logistics, non-academic health accommodations and disability issues, host institution acceptance) to the staff abroad, campus offices, UCEAP staff, and students on UCEAP.

Rice U: Assistant Director of Study Abroad (USA)

Assistant Director of Study Abroad, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. Deadline: 30 October 2024.

The mission of the Office of Study Abroad is to provide Rice undergraduates substantial, transformational experiences that complement their Rice curriculum through academically rigorous and culturally enriching long-term international opportunities. Under supervision of the director, the Assistant Director is responsible for providing guidance and continuous support to students on all aspects of study abroad, during the entire process spanning from choosing the right program to returning from overseas. This includes information sessions as well as one-on-one advising before and during the application process, pre-departure guidance, support while overseas, and re-entry guidance.

Abdeslam Badre Profile

Abdeslam Badre is is a policy development expert, and associate professor at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

Abdeslam Badre

His research seeks to analyze current norms that hamper the progress and livelihood of migrants, women, and youth as social groups. He aims to generate evidence-based recommendations to inform national and regional policies, and provide comparable data across borders for key countries in MENA and Southern Mediterranean regions, while addressing the causes of entrenched marginalization and socio-economic transformation. Badre has worked with/for a number of international organizations (including Fulbright, EU-JRC, ERASMUS+, InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), Konrad-Adenaeur Foundation (KAS), Global Young Academy (GYA), Next Einstein Forum (NEF), African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD), ECSA Global, Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS), American Political Sciences Association (APSA), and EDU4U, among others, on various projects. He has also held visiting professor positions and research fellowships at Alfred University in New York, Monterey Institute for International Studies in California, University of North Carolina, all in the United States, as well as Aalborg University in Denmark, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Germany, and Babes Bolyai University in Romania. He is an Editor of the Social Science Section for Elsevier and the journal Scientific African.

Recent publications include North-South Economic Diplomacy: EU-Morocco Free Trade Negotiation (Germany, 2020); Enjeux Culturelles (Morocco, 2020); Voices of Early Career Researchers in and out of the Academy: A Pan- African Perspective (coauthored book, Germany, 2020). Currently, he is a coordinator of and author for the EuroMeSCo Joint Study Group 2021: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: A Comparative Perspective on Maghreb Countries Migration Cooperation with their West African Neighbours.

Work for CID:

Abdeslam Badre is part of an expert group organized by the Center.

Centers & Organizations Lists Updated

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue maintains lists of other centers and organizations around the world having overlapping interests.

As we do every few years, we have just updated these lists, deleting links that no longer lead to functioning websites. As always, dozens of links showed up as broken, so those entries have been deleted. Where possible, we have replaced them with valid links, but in many cases, we did not find a current link that works.

If your center or organization used to be on our list, and no longer shows up, please email a current functioning link. Of course, if you have not been on our list previously but wish to be listed now, you are invited to send in a link as well.

BAEF: Fellowships for Graduate Study or Research (Belgium)

Fellowships for graduate study or research in Belgium, Belgian American Educational Foundation, Belgium. Deadline: varies by program.

The Belgian American Educational Foundation offers fellowships for graduate study and for research for Americans who wish to do the work in Belgium, or Belgians who wish to do the work in the United States. The primary purpose of the BAEF is to instill in Belgium as well as in the United States a deep respect and appreciation for the other’s country and people. The Foundation has selected education to achieve this purpose, with a special emphasis on the younger generation. Education implies excellence in teaching, research, professional practice, management, as well as citizenship. BAEF fosters the higher education of deserving Belgians and Americans through its fellowship program between the United States and Belgium.

Graduate study for Americans to go to Belgium – Deadline: 31 December 2024.

Research for Americans in Belgium – Deadline: 31 December 2024.

Graduate study for Belgians to go to the US – Deadline: 31 October 2024.

Research for Belgians in the US – Deadline: 31 October 2024.

CFP Spanish in Society (UK)

Call for Papers: Spanish in Society, International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society, The University of Bristol, England, UK, 5-6 June 2025. Deadline: 30 November 2024 (extended: 13 December 2024).

The International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society aims to promote the study of Spanish and the languages with which it is in contact through a focus on the study of sociolinguistics, sociology of language, discourse analysis, pragmatics, applied linguistics, intercultural communication, conversation analysis and anthropological linguistics. The eleventh conference will take place at the University of Bristol (UK) in June 2025, and will provide a moment for scholars in these areas to reflect on what issues face the study of Spanish (and related languages) in society. The event will bring various groups into dialogue, opening the floor to the innovative ways in which scholars can address contemporary research problems and questions and become actively involved in advancing the field of Hispanic sociolinguistics.

In addition to keynote presentations and thematic panels, the conference programme will include coffee breaks, extended lunch breaks, a closing reception and an evening meal (all of which are included in the registration fee) to allow for more informal networking opportunities for all atendees. Please note that we are planning to hold the conference in person, and there will be no hybrid alternatives offered.

Key Concept 111: Membership Categorization Analysis

The next issue of Key Concepts in intercultural Dialogue is now available. This is KC111: Membership Categorization Analysis by Trudy Milburn. As always, all Key Concepts are available as free PDFs; just click on the thumbnail to download. Lists organized chronologically by publication date and number, alphabetically by concept in English, and by languages into which they have been translated, are available, as is a page of acknowledgments with the names of all authors, translators, and reviewers.

Milburn, T. (2024). Membership Categorization Analysis. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 111. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/kc111-mca-1.pdf

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue publishes a series of short briefs describing Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue. Different people, working in different countries and disciplines, use different vocabulary to describe their interests, yet these terms overlap. Our goal is to provide some of the assumptions and history attached to each concept for those unfamiliar with it. As there are other concepts you would like to see included, send an email. If there are concepts you would like to prepare, provide a brief explanation of why you think the concept is central to the study of intercultural dialogue, and why you are the obvious person to write up that concept.

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