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 -2008/9 Annual Workshop to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-practitioner applications of intra-cultural information and theory.
-Thomas Hylland Eriksen joins OICD as patron.
-2007 Summer Workshop theme--"Social Theory in Action: Transforming Imaginative Landscapes."
2006 OICD Annual Meeting in Kyoto, Japan. Details here.
2006 OICD Annual Workshop University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. Report here.

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Welcome to the Homepage of the Organization for Intra-Cultural Development. The OICD works to develop, apply, and popularize social theory on the nature of identity in order to:

Help defuse, prevent and resolve conflict.
Chart social trends and build scenarios for the future.
Develop infrastructure for sustainable imagined communities.



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.

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