Living together with ambiguities. Different cultures and common values?

During the previous conferences one of the topics that attracted more interest was the discrepancy between national values as stated in the official documents of any given country (their constitutions, for instance) and the deep values as embodied and practiced every day by the majority of the population.

In the conference “Reconciling Babel” (Milan 2011) many observed that deep cultures – of which people are often unaware – are one of the causes that make co-existence among different groups on the planet more difficult. In fact cultural conflicts are aggravated not by institutional differences between States but by differences between world-views and life-styles of communities.

The Intercultura Foundation took up some of these topics again in a conference that took place in Florence on September 2nd - 4th, 2021, focussing on this main issue: beyond cultural differences are there universal values that may facilitate human co-existence, although they may be embodied in sharply different institutions and behaviours in each culture?

More information on the conference website. Proceedings are available HERE.