Beyond Rhetoric: Real Implications of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity (in particular for Switzerland)

FROM DECLARATION TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION: PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN SWITZERLAND, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, ed. SAGW, 2011.

8 Pages Posted: 10 Jul 2012

Date Written: January 3, 2012

Abstract

The Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) launched a broader discussion on cultural diversity (which is now one of SAGW's key topics), on what the notion entails, and what policies are meant to implement it. The debate is multidisciplinary and seeks linking law with history, migration and media studies, involving also the major Swiss stakeholders at the federal and cantonal levels.

The work resulted in a conference at the University of Zurich in January 2011. The proceedings have been published by the SAGW in its series 'Sprachen und Kulturen': Von der Deklaration zur Umsetzung - Schutz und Förderung der kulturellen Vielfalt in der Schweiz (Bern: SAGW, 2011). The chapter here focuses on the (real) legal implications of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity, in particular for Switzerland as a ratifying party of the Convention and one of the active promoters in the multiyear process leading to its adoption.

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Keywords: cultural diversity, UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity, trade and culture, media policy, Switzerland

Suggested Citation

Burri, Mira, Beyond Rhetoric: Real Implications of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity (in particular for Switzerland) (January 3, 2012). FROM DECLARATION TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION: PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN SWITZERLAND, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, ed. SAGW, 2011., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2103129

Mira Burri (Contact Author)

University of Lucerne ( email )

Frohburgstrasse 3
PO Box 4466
Lucerne, 6002
Switzerland

HOME PAGE: http://www.unilu.ch/mira-burri

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