Intercultural Resources is a forum for research and political intervention on issues related to the impacts and alternatives to destructive development. Our effort draws upon the social, cultural, material and intellectual resources that have been generated in the course of dialogues between people of different cultures on questions of social justice, development and self-rule.
We are of the view that dialogue can sustain plurality and open possibilities for recovery of the ground lost on account of inter-cultural alienation, which is manifest in a variety of forms of violence that we encounter everyday at different levels of social life.
Intercultural Resources is registered (Reg. No. 53443 of 2005 dated 18th August 2005.) under the Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860 and is based in Delhi, India.
Campaigns and Programmes:
* Assessing People to People Initiatives
For the past several years, numerous friends on both sides of the India-Pakistan border have been keen to come together to critically assess the history of people-to-people initiatives and to collectively share the challenges that we face in the future.
* Asian Social Movements
For the past two years, the group has been involved in a collaborative project on Social Movements in Asia. Activist, Researchers and Movement representatives from Indonesia, Philippines, China and India have been involved in this exercise.
* International Financial Institutions
We have been involved for over three decades in research and campaigns on the penetration of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) into the fabric of Indian society that not only make them accountable but to also present alternatives to centralised institutions which collaborate and even direct state policy and have far-reaching adverse social, cultural, economic and ecological consequences
* International Honors Program
International Honors Program (IHP) is a unique program that challenges conventional unidirectional modes of pedagogy based in the four-walled closed classroom. IHP creates conditions for students and faculty to become co-learners. There are two programs - Indigenous Perspectives (IP) and Rethinking Globalization (RG). IP a semester program across four countries-America, India, New Zealand and New Mexico. RG is a two-semester program across these four countries and England and Tanzania.
