Empowering Local Identities

Inaccurate understandings of cultural heritage and place cause major problems in society. We supply populations with accurate information to help regenerate positive self and other images.

Building Global Minds

We offer targeted educational strategies that root global thinking in a deep understanding of local relationships, anchoring individuals to positive empowering perspectives and images.

Developing Perspectives

The OICD works to inform and popularize interdisciplinary theory and research that influences the way that people are able to understand themselves as socio-cultural beings.

The OICD Executive Committee in Kyoto in 2006

Welcome to the Organization for Intra-Cultural Development’s website. This website explains the concept and contribution of Intra-Cultural Development, details the OICD network and organizational structures and guidelines that administer it, and outlines projects and events, news and articles related to the organization.

our goals:

  • To engage with governmental and non-governmental agencies and industry to help to build: multicultural and social cohesion programs/policies; state rebuilding action plans/strategy; conflict response approaches and prevention/defusion/resolution mechanisms.
  • To create targeted projects for the empowerment of solution-orientated identities in areas of violent and symbolic conflict. To evaluate existing and develop new applied approaches to reduce and prevent the formation of sectarian identities.
  • To build curricula which highlight the mechanisms of identity formation for use in schools, universities, NGO, government and industry training programs.
  • To establish and support publishing outlets for work which attempts to make academic research on all aspects of identity accessible to the public and policy sectors.
  • To conduct and compile innovative research on the formation and maintenance of social identity.
  • To create wider networks of professionals, academics and policy makers who share an interest in contributing to the above aims.