Since the 1980s, intercultural dialogue has become increasingly recognized as a way to reduce prejudice, improve relationships, increase intercultural understanding, manage diversity, and contribute to democratic processes. Similarly, civic engagement has emerged as a key priority of municipalities to effectively serve and meet the needs of a culturally diverse public. I conducted an exploratory qualitative research study using focus groups with 13 ethnocultural community leaders in Edmonton, Alberta. The main goals were to understand from their lived experiences and perspectives how intercultural dialogue could contribute to meaningful and culturally appropriate civic engagement for ethnocultural communities. The findings indicated that ethnocultural community leaders are passionate about and committed to improving the lives of their communities, identify strongly with Canada and Edmonton as their home, and appreciate being meaningfully involved in civic affairs. The findings indicated that intercultural dialogue is meaningful if it takes place in a larger framework of civic engagement practices. This framework of meaningful practices is presented along with recommendations that can be adapted and implemented by municipalities, institutions, and organizations that wish to engage meaningfully with and respond effectively to diverse ethnocultural communities.

International education is big business and international students are a large minority on many of the U.S.’s most reputable institutions. However, a persistent issue has been the tendency for international and U.S. domestic students to socialize largely within their own groups of co-nationals. Utilizing a paradigmatic case study approach on a large public university, this dissertation consists of three separate, but connected, studies that feature, respectively, (1) staff and faculty intercultural learning and contact, (2) undergraduate student experiences of intercultural contact and friendship, and (3) undergraduate student assessments of campus spaces and programs for interacting across culture. These studies integrated frameworks from intercultural competence, intergroup contact theory, and conviviality. Findings throughout the case study confirmed that friendship and contact between international and domestic U.S. individuals was limited, even when the participants were motivated, experienced, and demonstrated many aspects of intercultural competence. Further, the case was characterized by administrative efforts to address the issue through formal classes, workshops, and festivals, while generally overlooking the informal spaces that students found most integral to their own experiences. These findings underscore a disconnect between trying to “prepare” individuals for contact rather than attempting to “create” the spaces and programs for such contact to occur, i.e., a focus on the individual’s knowledge and skills rather than the interpersonal and environmental conditions in contact. The findings culminated in the proposed Programmatic Conviviality Model, qualities which are theorized to support convivial intercultural contact. I argue that this model and the realignment to a focus on intercultural contact as a goal, is necessary for college campuses beyond the immediate case study and that this work is timely as campuses move back to in-person engagement after almost two years of COVID isolation.

In dem Bericht werden die Daten der ersten Erhebungswelle der Panelstudie zur Wahrnehmung von Kriminalität und Straftäter:innen (PaWaKS) analyisert. Dazu wurde eine deutschlandweite repräsentative Stichprobe von 5000 erwachsenen Personen befragt. Die Ergebnisse in Kürze: Diejenigen Befragten, die Kontakt zu Polizei und Justiz bzw. zu Straftäter:innen hatten, beschrieben diesen Kontakt als überwiegend positiv. Junge Menschen sowie Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund bewerteten den Kontakt mit Justiz/Polizei etwas weniger positiv als Menschen aus anderen Altersgruppen bzw. ohne Migrationshintergrund. Wie von der Kontakthypothese angenommen, ging positiver Kontakt zu Polizei und Justiz mit positiven Einstellungen gegenüber Polizei und Justiz einher, ebenso mit höherem Vertrauen in diese Institutionen. Gleichzeitig zeigte sich aber ein leicht negativer Zusammenhang zu Einstellungen gegenüber Straftäter:innen. Positiver Kontakt mit Straftäter:innen hing mit positiveren Einstellungen gegenüber Straftäter:innen zusammen, aber nicht mit Einstellungen zu und Vertrauen in Polizei und Justiz. Dieser Befund spricht gegen negative Nebeneffekte von Kontakt mit Straftäter:innen. Positive Kontakterfahrungen können zur Verbesserung der Beziehungen zu und Wahrnehmung von Polizei und Justiz sowie Straftäter:innen beitragen und so größeres Vertrauen in die Institutionen und eine verbesserte Reintegration von Straftäter:innen in die Gesellschaft ermöglichen.:Inhaltsverzeichnis Das Wichtigste in Kürze 4 1 Einleitung 5 1.1 Intergruppenkontakt 6 1.2 Intergruppenkontakt mit Polizei und Justiz 7 1.3 Intergruppenkontakt mit Straftäter:innen 8 2 Methode 9 2.1 Vorgehensweise 9 2.2 Erhebungsinstrumente 9 2.3 Beschreibung der Stichprobe 10 3 Interindividuelle Unterschiede 11 3.1 Kontakt mit Vertreter:innen des Justizsystems 11 3.2 Kontakt mit Straftäter:innen 16 4 Zusammenhangsanalysen 20 4.1 Einstellungen gegenüber Polizei, Justiz und Straftäter:innen 21 4.2 Kriminalitätsfurcht 22 4.3 Vertrauen in Polizei und Justiz 23 4.4 Attribution von Kriminalität und Punitivität 23 5 Fazit 25 Glossar 27 Literaturverzeichnis 29 Impressum 34

Ce mémoire s’intéresse, à travers une étude de cas, aux facteurs environnementaux de l’espace public qui facilitent ou rendent difficile un rapprochement entre groupes sociaux différents. Il vient également mettre à l’épreuve des théories occidentales partagées entre les sciences sociales et le domaine de l’aménagement dans un contexte du sud global, plus précisément au Vietnam, à Hanoï. Le site d’étude est dans le quartier de Tan Mai au sud d’Hanoï, un quartier parmi les plus densément peuplés de la ville où l’on retrouve une forte concentration de migrants ruraux. Selon la littérature, il existe une forte discrimination entre les migrants ruraux et les Hanoïens. Dans le même temps, la sous-provision d'espaces publics ouverts à Hanoï limite les possibilités pour ces deux groupes de se côtoyer dans les mêmes espaces récréatifs et de socialisation. Face à ces constats, la fondation HealthBridge, l’entreprise sociale ThinkPlaygrounds! et le bureau d’UN Habitat au Vietnam ont développé une aire de jeux couplée à un jardin communautaire dont l’un des objectifs était de favoriser les relations entre migrants et non-migrants au cours de l’année 2019. Une étude post-occupationnelle de ce projet a été menée durant l’été 2022. Combinant enquête par questionnaires, entretiens semi-directifs et observations de terrain. Cette étude a permis d’identifier certains des facteurs liés à l’aménagement qui contribuent à faciliter ou à freiner les interactions intergroupes et qui participent à soutenir les relations entre migrants et non-migrantes dans cet espace. La recherche met en évidence non seulement un manque de connaissances, mais aussi les défis opérationnels auxquels sont confrontés les praticiens du domaine de l'aménagement lorsqu'il s'agit de concevoir des espaces favorisant les rencontres intergroupes. L'étude suggère une collaboration accrue entre les disciplines de l’aménagement et les sciences sociales pour améliorer l'opérationnalisation d'un design d'espace public soutenant les relations intergroupes. / Through a case study, this dissertation examines the environmental factors in the design of public spaces that facilitate or hinder interactions between different social groups. It also puts to the test Western theories shared between the social sciences and the field of planning in a context of the global South, more precisely in Hanoi, Vietnam. The study site is located in the Tan Mai district to the south of Hanoi, one of the city's most densely populated areas, with a high concentration of rural migrants. According to the literature, there is strong discrimination between rural migrants and Hanoians. At the same time, the under-provision of public open spaces in Hanoi limits the opportunities for these two groups to rub shoulders in the same recreational and social spaces. In response to these findings, the HealthBridge Foundation, the social enterprise ThinkPlaygrounds! and UN Habitat's Vietnam office developed a playground coupled with a community garden, one of the aims of which was to foster relations between migrants and non-migrants over the course of 2019. A post-occupancy study of this project was carried out during the summer of 2022. Combining a questionnaire survey, semi-structured interviews and field observations, this study identified some of the environmental-related factors that contributed to facilitating or hindering intergroup interactions. The identified factors also helped sustain relationships between migrants and non-migrants in the space. The research highlights not only a lack of knowledge, but also the operational challenges faced by planning practitioners when it comes to designing spaces that encourage intergroup encounters. The study suggests increased collaboration between planning disciplines and the social sciences to improve the operationalization of public space design supporting intergroup relations.

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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / A variety of minority groups are present in the readings of Spanish and Latin American literature classes; however, there is a lack of representation of homosexual themes in the readings. This paper takes a look at what homosexual themes are present in the literature anthologies in current use, and then suggest a teaching unit and methodology for how one can implement these topics into a literature class. The paper provides a sound basis for teachers who are trying to introduce these issues into their classes. [Language - Spanish]