2017 National Multicultural Festival

The National Multicultural Festival began in 1996 and has since evolved into the biggest occasion on Canberra’s event landscape. In the very beginnings of the Festival, it was a one-day event, eventually moving to a 2-week Festival. 

Over the course of the last 21 years it has developed into the 3-day Festival it is now, which allows Canberrans, national and international visitors alike to congregate in Canberra over one weekend for what is one of the biggest celebrations of cultural diversity across Australia.

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New Interesting research from IMN Country Representative in Pakistan:' The aesthetics of multiculturalism in Pakistan"

The aesthetics of multiculturalism in Pakistan

Ph.D, Mirza Muhammad Zubair Baig, 

Assistant Professor

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

Pakistan is situated at the cross-roads in Asia and is home to more than 180 million people. The land where Pakistan was carved on the map of world on 14^th of August 1947 has been equally attractive for the invaders in the past and now for the tourists because of its unique landscape, cultural diversity, multiethnic multilingual speakers and variegated geographical terrain. Mohiuddin notes that Pakistani civilization dates back to prehistoric times as the relics of tools excavated in Siwalik Hills in northern Punjab, paintings on rocks

Head of International Multicultural Network ,Khayala Mammadova 's article was published in Multicultural Newspaper ' THE PRISMA'...

Azerbaijan’s multiculturalism: Setting an example for the world.

In a peculiar way it is possible to see multiculturalism as a strategic tool of foreign policy which defends itself from religious and political extremism. Azerbaijan represents a country’s success story that could be viewed as a model, especially within a regional framework where radicalism has spread rapidly over the last 20 years....

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IMN Representative for Italy,Dr. Alessio Stilo has published a paper in e-newspaper " Modern Diplomacy' entitled: "Multiculturalism is dead? Not quite yet"

Multiculturalism is dead? Not quite yet....

Multicultural approaches and policies vary widely all over the world, ranging from the advocacy of equal respect to the various cultures in a society, to a policy of promoting the maintenance of cultural diversity, to policies in which people of various ethnic and religious groups are addressed by the authorities as defined by the group to which they belong.

A sort of “third way” between the two above-mentioned strategies has been traditioned and further enhanced by core Asian counties, e.g. Azerbaijan, where state policy has been accompanied, in a complementary way, to a certain activism of intermediate bodies (civil society, universities, think tanks)...

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Let's congratulate Our Newest IMN Country Representative in China!

 IMN COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHINA , 

DR.MUDDASSAR SARFRAZ !

We wish to congratulate you on your new appointment as IMN Country Representative in  China  and we take this opportunity to look forward in working closely and strenghten the   cooperation with our network. We are sure our cooperation will continue to be fruitful in the future.