Intercultural Mediation
Intercultural Mediation

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays a successful intercultural exchange requires the understanding of differences, through communication and assimilation of the new values brought up by the immigrant population in the European states. Intercultural mediation is one of the best methods used for solving the problems raised by Europe’s cultural diversity, through negotiation, communication and the acceptance of the other, all of them with the help of the central figure of the intercultural mediator. In the present paper we have presented two of the most important fields of intervention for intercultural mediation, the social and the healthcare systems, through the examples offered by Italy, Belgium, Sweden and France, and some of the best solutions for its functioning, inspired by the Project proposed for the years 2010–2011 by five European regions from the Alps–Mediterranean Area which became aware of the necessity of intercultural mediation for conflict prevention and the preservation of peace in the European intercultural environment.

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