Welcome to the Homepage of the Organization for Intra-Cultural Development. The OICD works to improve the social, economic, political and security standards of societies based on the management of socio-cultural images and identities.

Intra-Cultural Development aims to:
improve the quality of socio-cultural symbolism with which all individuals engage improve the conditions of social, political and economic life through the management of these critical human resources utilize a unique interdisciplinary and applied approach to target particular development strategies:

Multicultural/immigration policy development
Anti-sectarianism strategy development
Conflict prevention
Conflict response/defusion
Conflict resolution
Alienated/marginalized community response

OICD ACTIVITIES
Identity studies research
Developing and monitoring innovative research on narrative, cultural identity, personhood, generational change and other areas relevant to identity studies and change.
Education/training
Building curricula which highlight the mechanisms of identity formation for use in schools and universities. Contributing anthropological approaches to training programs in areas such as inter-cultural communication, diplomacy, and peace-building.
Social theory popularization/Dissemination
Establishing social and financial support networks and publishing outlets for work which attempts to make academic research on all aspects of identity highly accessible to the general public.
Consultancy/Advisory Services
Engaging with governmental and non-governmental agencies to help to build: multicultural and social cohesion programs/policies; state rebuilding action plans/strategy; conflicit response approaches and prevention/defusion/resolution mechanism development.
Applied projects
Creating focused targeted, often media-based, projects to attempt to empower solution-orientated identities in areas of conflict. Evaluating existing and developing new applied approaches to reduce and prevent the formation of sectarian identities.
Interdisciplinary Networks
Creating wider networks of social scientists, humanitarians, linguists, educationalists, psychologists, philosophers, and other people who share an interest in the above aims.

The Organization for Intra-Cultural Development (OICD)