Countering Conflict, Promoting Peace
OICD tools work to increase the number of ways people can express their social and ethnic identities, an approach proven to reduce conflict and power cohesion.
A Common Human Diversity
OICD perspectives introduce ideas of common human heritage and culture as a means to assist positive, inclusive, potential-realizing identities.
Advancing the Human Sciences
OICD experts advance our understanding of how identities function and develop tools for engaging and positively transforming identities.
Rooted in Academia
OICD theory and practice has been developed over a decade of academic collaboration. Every new project and tool applies the latest interdisciplinary findings.
Powered by Practitioners
Information, messaging and educational strategies are designed and delivered to communities by writers, artists, performers and producers.
Identity is a core issue for peacebuilding work, but also a very
Phil Vernon, Director of Programmes, International Alert, London, UK
complex one. What I found interesting and relevant about the
OICD approach is the way it combines a high level conceptual
model with practical application.
