Literature on intergroup contact shows that in the absence of the required structural conditions, contact is not necessarily always a positive experience and that when it is negative, it can lead to heightened conflict and increased prejudice toward outgroups.

Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently interviewed on SBS Arabic 24 radio on the normalisation of Arab states with Israel and its implications for the Palestinian cause.

Following on from his recent article co-authored with Professor Greg Barton and published on ABC’s Religion and Ethics online, Professor Fethi Mansouri was interviewed by Andrew West from On The Religion and Ethics Report on ABC Radio National, asking if aggressive secularism is dividing France.

Professor Fethi Mansouri has recently had an opinion piece published on the ABC Religion & Ethics website.

ADI Director, Professor Fethi Mansouri, was this week, named one of 38 new fellows elected this year to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

On 30 October, Professor Fethi Mansouri wrote an article for The Conversation.

The article, co-authored with Professor Greg Barton, was written in response to the recent terror attacks that occurred in Nice, France.

Professor Fethi Mansouri is pleased to announce the release of the final report from the project, ‘Dissecting Islamophobia: Understanding the varied racialisation of Islam using Latent Class Analysis.

Professor Fethi Mansouri was asked for his view on the latest events occurring in France during his recent interview with Iman Riman and Manal Al Ani on SBS Arabic24 radio.

The growing intellectual and policy debate around optimal approaches to diversity governance, particularly in relation to criticism of multiculturalism, is now entering a new phase

Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently published in Religions (MDPI).

Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently interviewed by SBS Arabic Radio to provide his thoughts on this year’s World Day of Peace, held annually on 21 September.

Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently invited to attend the UN International Day of Peace Virtual Conference as a plenary speaker.

Professor Fethi Mansouri gave a keynote presentation on 10 September to the Y20, the Youth Engagement Arm of the G20 Group.

Through inductive exploration of authentic, local, community responses to the COVID-19 crisis, this brief examines the new context in which the ICD agenda is being pursued, complementing the many existing quantitative analyses of the socio-cultural impact of the pandemic

On Thursday 6 August, UNESCO and UNAOC Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue University Network held a webinar to discuss the response to the Covid-19 Webinar Series with the topic of “When global citizens face a global crisis: Linking up solutions for deeper change”.

Professor Fethi Mansouri joined a panel discussion on Racism and Dialogue in an online webinar organised by Blue Star Intercultural Centre and Australian Centre of Christianity and Culture, Charles Sturt University on the evening of Thursday 23 July 2020.

Professor Fethi Mansouri was recently interviewed by Jamileh Fakhri on SBS Arabic24 Radio.

To listen to the full interview in Arabic, please click here

This paper reports the findings of the first systematic literature review (SLR) of studies on the intercultural approach as captured by two inter-connected articulations: interculturalism (IC) and intercultural dialogue (ICD).

Worldwide, the COVID-19 response has been largely premised on physical distancing, though this has, unfortunately, been discursively referred to in formal and informal discourse as social distancing. There is a big difference between the two concepts, with physical distancing not necessarily precluding social connectedness, whereas social distancing unavoidably presumes disconnectedness.

Scholarship on Muslim youth is increasingly recognising the different ways they negotiate fluid, hybrid and individualised identities alongside minoritised identities that stem from a politics of mis-recognition. However, less attention has been directed towards understanding how these seemingly contradictory processes might simultaneously arise within culturally diverse societies that have defined frameworks for managing diversity.