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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.

When Identities Draw Lines in History

Where do the stories of our cultures begin? Are these historical starting points arbitrary? How are they defined? And what can they tell us about how conflict and division gets started and how it can be resolved?

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.

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Identities are Manmade and Therefore can be Shaped by Mankind

Cultures and nations are often assumed to be "real" and unquestionable. What are our options when we discover that they are anything but?

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Identity is a core issue for peacebuilding work, but also a very
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.
Phil Vernon, Director of Programmes, International Alert, London, UK