5th May 2000

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A senior academic at the University has told the Israeli Parliament that the most urgent international challenge facing the world is the management of multi-cultural societies.

Professor Mari Fitzduff, the Director of INCORE, addressed the Knesset on May 7

Professor Fitzduff believes multi-cultural/ethnic states are now common place and management of them has become a major problem for most governments.

"Increasingly, evidence points to the mismanagement of multi-culturalism as a major source of societal violence," she says.

Drawing on varying approaches and practices around the world, but particularly from Northern Ireland, Professor Fitzduff spoke about the requirements for the management of diversity in areas such as security and equality issues and constitutional and legal processes.

She also talked about the need for all aspects of society, including civil society, to take a proactive role in addressing and managing diversity issues.

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