Participants with different voices, perspectives, and life experiences are welcome. Together, we will explore the complex realities of integration in a diverse academic setting, examining both the beauty and the tensions that can arise when different cultures, backgrounds, and worldviews meet.

We will begin with several short personal stories from students of the Graduate Institute, sharing moments of challenge, discovery, and connection. These reflections will open the door to a broader conversation for all participants to engage in and interact with.

We believe every voice, feeling, and perspective is needed. By creating a space that can hold complexities and contradictions and facilitating interaction between different and often opposing viewpoints, more awareness, better understanding, new perspectives, unexpected solutions, and possibly moments of connection can emerge. Such a conversation will help bring light to the often unspoken issues, enabling us to address them in ways that can positively impact relationships, learning, living together, and collaboration, valuing our diversity. We also invite educators and stakeholders to join, using insights from the discussion to guide their actions and initiatives.

This facilitated discussion is a joint collaboration with The Fab, Peacebuilding Initiative, and Living Together Project, with support from the Lech Wałęsa Foundation. 

Discussion hosts and facilitators: 

• Shruti Satish, The Fab Community Manager
• Olivia Katherine Bornyi, Co-President of the Peacebuilding Initiative
• Emma Isabella Hamilton, Co-President of the Peacebuilding Initiative
• Yuliya Filippovska, PhD and ProcessWork Dipl, IAPOP Board Member, Deep Democracy Alliance (DDA) member, coach and facilitator.
• Magdalena Schatzmann, ProcessWork Dipl, IAPOP Member, DDA member, musician, coach, and facilitator.