Current Projects

Diversity Dialogue Day
30 May 2009, The Australian National University, Canberra

The Diversity Dialogue Day, an initiative of Dr Bora Kanra, was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (DP 0773626) 'Communication Across Difference in a Democracy: Australian Muslims and the Mainstream', with additional financial support from the ANU’s Research School of Social Sciences.

The event was conducted by a team of researchers from ANU (Dr Ken Mavor, Dr Bora Kanra, Dr Emma Thomas, Caroline Blink, Kerry O’Brien) as part of a cross-disciplinary research collaboration between Political Science, the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), and the Psychology Department. The Dialogue Day was part of a community-based research program aiming to foster harmony between Muslim and non-Muslim Australians, and to understand how best this might be achieved. The Dialogue Day brought together more than 30 people of both Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds from around Canberra.

A second event is planned for 2010, to be held in Auburn, Sydney.

A report of the analysis of the Diversity Dialogue Day's proceedings and outcomes can be found here.