Strategies for Intercultural Conflict Management in migrant contexts

Elizabeth Horlemann

Lecture
Saturday 03. December 2022, 13.00 Uhr
Elizabeth Horlemann, Copyright Elizabeth Horlemann

Strategies for Intercultural Conflict Management in migrant contexts

With the expansion of international exchange, people from different cultures come together, for example in immigration countries like Germany. When people with different ways of life meet, intercultural conflicts may arise.

SUR understands a conflict as a dispute between two or more parties. It arises when goals, needs, interests and opinions do not coincide. In addition, people from different cultures bring different languages, norms, values and customs with them. These can affect behaviour in the workplace and in other daily encounters.

SUR therefore sees the need to educate about the importance of understanding intercultural conflicts and to prepare how to deal with them when and where they arise. This concerns migrant as well as host communities.

This is because conflicts pose a considerable challenge to coexistence and doing business. Conflict leads to disruption and less creativity. Conflict can also affect the productivity and success of projects.

That is why SUR has organised a series of talks and workshops to provide members of migrant communities in particular with the confidence and support to create a workplace where people from different backgrounds work together in productive and enriching ways.

Elizabeth Horlemann, Copyright Elizabeth Horlemann

Elizabeth Horlemann is a freelance trainer in intercultural communication, critical race theory and country analysis expert for South Africa, Namibia and East Africa. She specializes in providing training for businesses, NGOs, government agencies, and individuals who want to improve their soft skills in the areas of working across borders, whether in communication, foreign business and relocation, and especially in creating spaces where uncomfortable discussions about racism and white privilege are possible.

She studied business administration in Kenya and has lived in Germany since 4 Chancellors - in 1990. During the HIV/AIDS pandemic, she decided to move away from the administrative sector and initially train in the health sector. She built bridges between the majority population, health and social workers and HIV/AIDS infected people coming from Africa and living in North Rhine-Westphalia. She has been providing freelance training for over 15 years.

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