Expert Group Meeting on Creating an Inclusive Society: Practical Strategies to Promote Social Integration. UNESCO HQs, Paris, France, 10 - 13 September 2007
The Division for Social Policy and Development (DSPD) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), in collaboration with UNESCO and UN Habitat, is organizing an Expert Group Meeting on “Creating an Inclusive Society: Practical Strategies to Promote Social Integration” at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France from 10 – 13 September, 2007.
Within the broad objective of developing practical strategies to promote social integration through an inclusive and participatory process, the meeting is geared at exploring essential elements necessary to create an inclusive society, clarifying methodology of analysis of social inclusion, and exploring possible approaches to measure the cohesiveness of societies. It also aims to examine how these methodologies and indicators can be applied to real challenges that societies are facing, such as urban violence and insecurity, marginalization of certain groups, and, further, what role it could play in conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts.
The meeting is part of ongoing efforts at UNDESA to clarify the meaning of social policy in a contemporary world, including the interconnection of inclusion, participation and justice in building socially integrated societies. The meeting’s deliberations will be published as a contribution to the global debate, policy dialogue and evolution of practical strategies for social integration - thereby contributing to enhance the social science- social policy nexus.
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EGM recommendations of the meeting.
EGM Final Report of the meeting.
Information:
Aide Memoire
Background
Copenhagen on Social Integration
E-dialogue Summary