Intercultural Human Rights Seminar (Changanassery, Kerala, India)

Seminar on Intercultural Human Rights with students and faculty at St. Berchamans College (Changanassery, Kerala). Excellent questions and discussion around culture and values through the lens of Human Rights. Dr. Sunny offered a good starting point “The purpose of a Human Rights education is to develop a value system that cuts across religions, caste, etc.” Dr. Roza Pati noted that it is through the framework of human rights, that we can talk about culture; that we can communicate: “That is where the dialogue comes in. We don’t always have to look at the clash of cultures, of religions, of civilizations. We don’t have to be focusing on the interpretation that one group, certain radicals, will choose to explain culture. We also want to listen to the other group who is also looking at it in a more tolerant way. And that is the way that will bring us to proper understanding.”