Knowing How to “Make” Intercultural Diplomacy

Intercultural Diplomacy embodies the richest part of the possibilities offered by international relations (public and private) through dialogue, kind assertiveness, and truthfulness. It means identifying potential syntheses between different cultures and working together with the aim of rediscovering oneself in the Other, living purposefully in the Other, accepting oneself and accepting the Other more fully. Intercultural Diplomacy involves an area of action ranging from politics to trade, to development cooperation, culture, communication, solidarity, and the creativity of law.
But more than anything else, there is a need to develop a permanent, natural, fluid, intercultural attitude that can avoid (or at least suspend) judgment, and push us to better understand surrounding realities, by savouring and metabolizing more effectively. Deepening some of the functions of the human psyche that are part of every person’s world of behavioural responsiveness (such as understanding, knowledge, vision, organization, experimentation, determination, synthesis) can greatly help to achieve these goals, allowing us to appreciate everyday life as a continual and fertile discovery of what is new.