CID’s first Student Voices competition is over. As a reminder, students (at any level) were invited to describe their own experiences with and/or ideas about intercultural dialogue.
The winner is Rohak Jain, a high school student at Interlake High School in Belleview, WA. You will want to read his essay, The Virtues of an Open Mind: Making Room for Flexibility in Intercultural Dialogue. In it, he describes a conversation held through Acquaint, a platform dedicated to fostering cross-cultural collaboration. He says:
Throughout this essay, I’ll unpack the many dimensions of intercultural dialogue, demonstrating that to resolve conflict through intercultural dialogue, it is important to listen, understand, and contribute. Maintaining constructive conversation is key.
My thanks to all the competitors who took the time to really think about intercultural dialogue, to their instructors who helped alert students to this competition, and to those who served as judges: Melita Garza, Summer Harlow, Nazan Haydari, Casey Lum, and Mary Schaffer. As a reminder, we are holding additional competitions for publications in this series across the rest of the academic year:
- November 30, 2023
- February 29, 2024
- May 31, 2024
For further details about the competition, please see the first post describing it.
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue
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