Could we turn the extreme polarization of interests, positions, and attempts to control the differences around us we are currently witnessing or experiencing into a call for our promotion and facilitation of multi-perspective sharing, learning, communication, and dialogue? Constructive intercultural communication and dialogue are powerful tools through which people with different backgrounds, values, beliefs, and perspectives seek to build environments intended to promote and facilitate interacting with and learning from each other safely, openly, and developmentally. More importantly, through intercultural communication and dialogue, we could intentionally leverage the diversity of views, knowledge, and ideas around us in order to harness our collective intelligence and thus pursue a more sustainable and brighter future. Given the systemic challenges and conflicts we are facing, intercultural dialogue could be one of our most important societal endeavors, individually and as communities. Thank you, Forbes Nonprofit Council and Excelsior University for the opportunity to publish content on this critical subject, and for your invaluable support in doing so, Pamela Jimenez, Ed.D and Erin Coufal, MBA.
