Themes

Theme 1: Defining Diversity and its Relation to the Local and the Global: • Defining the dimensions of diversity—ethnicity, gender, race, socio-economic, indigenous, gender, sexual preference, disability.; • Locating diversity—individuals, groups, intersections, identity layers.; • Identifying the dynamics of diversity—exclusion or inclusion, assimilation or pluralism.; • Managing diversity—what does it mean? What does it mean to talk about 'productive diversity'?; Top

Theme 2: Governing Diverse Communities from 'Above': • Responding to global human movement and its consequences—immigration, asylum seekers, refugees, diasporic communities and settlement.; • Developing multicultural policies and practices.; • Responding to racism—its causes, effects and remedies.; • Developing a public service for a diverse community—towards a civic pluralism.; • Points of intensity—where disability meets ethnos meets gender.; Top

Theme 3: Governing Diverse Communities from 'Below': • First nations and indigenous peoples—strategies for community development.; • Indigenous rights and colonial wrongs.; • Capacity building in communities—access, participation, autonomy.; • The politics of community leadership—challenges for local government.; Top

Theme 4: Managing Diversity in Organisations and Institutions: • Managing and developing a diverse human resource base.; • Diversity measures—the future of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action.; • Beyond legislative and regulatory compliance—disability, harassment, discrimination.; • Mediation—cultural assumptions and practical outcomes.; Top

Theme 5: Projecting Diversity Across Nations and Beyond: • The 'mainstream' and 'minorities' in nation-states.; • Truth and reconciliation—examining the past for the sake of the future.; • International human rights and local sovereignty.; • Transnational regionalism—EU, NAFTA and emerging regionalisms.; • North to South, First to Fourth, developed to developing—the language and realities of global inequality.