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Announcement Global Dialogue Prize Global Dialogue Project, Aarhus University Aarhus (Denmark) __________________________________________________ General aims The Global Dialogue Prize is to mark the relevance of intercultural research on values for our current tasks in global communication and cooperation. Cultural and existential values represent a community's insights into the conditions of human flourishing, conceptions of social and personal well-being, and foundations of morality. Thus the encounter of cross-cultural diversity in values is, in principle, an opportunity for cultural growth and reflected existential orientation. The Global Dialogue Prize is to signal that intercultural understanding is a primary social good of our present age and that researchers in intercultural value studies, journalists, and other public communicators around the world today carry special responsibilities. Focus The Global Dialogue Prize is a prize for value research that matters in praxis. It is allocated to a person, institution, or organization to honor excellence in research on intercultural dialogue and value studies, as well as outstanding achievements in applying such research to promote the global dialogue on values and to increase intercultural understanding and competence. The prize is addressed to scholars and researchers in the humanities and other fields of scholarship and science relevant to intercultural value research, as well as to practitioners applying such research. The award primarily will honour research that, via social engagement and research communication, has created a visible precedent for the power of dialogical praxis: praxis in international management, praxis in responsible journalism, praxis in intercultural education, and praxis in organizing intercultural grassroots activities. Significance The Global Dialogue Prize is one of world's most significant awards for intercultural value research; it carries the amount of 500 000 DKK. In association with the Global Dialogue Prize five subsidiary research awards is to be allotted to young researchers (up to 2 years after their dissertation) from 2011 and onwards. Schedule 2009 May 15: Deadline for submission of nominations September 1: Notification of shortlisted nominees October 1: Notification of winner November 6: Award ceremony at the Aarhus Music Hall, Aarhus, Denmark November 3-6: Global Dialogue Conference 09: Responsibility: Climate Change as Challenge for Intercultural Inquiry on Values, located at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Organization The project is supported by a consortium of public and private sponsors, the Global Dialogue Project Group. The academic organization of the Global Dialogue Project lies with the research unit ICON (Interculturality, Conflict, and Value Studies) at Aarhus University. The organization is realised in collaboration with colleagues from the I-CONetwork, a global network of scholars engaged in the study of dialogue, values, and conflicts from an intercultural and cross-cultural point of view. The jury panel of the Global Dialogue Prize consists of 15 researchers, scholars, and public proponents of intercultural thought, as well as members of the Global Dialogue Project Group. For more information see: http://www.globaldialogueprize.org Contact: Jacob Bock Secretary of the Global Dialogue Project Research Unit ICON Department of Philosophy and the History of Ideas Aarhus University Jens Chr. Skousvej 5 Building 1467 8000 Aarhus C Denmark Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.globaldialogueprize.org __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
