Responsabile scientifico: Lucio Pegoraro
The project aims to study the possible reception of the intercultural form of State in the European legal space, as a new type of management of pluralism, in order to promote innovative tools for the integration of the different cultures in Europe. The widespread recognition of the failure of alternative models for managing cultural diversity (such as assimilation and multiculturalism) has prompted the research group to explore new paradigms, such as the intercultural State, which is applied in several legal environments outside the Western Legal Tradition (e.g., South America, sub-Saharan Africa, India).
Even if scholars are reluctant to acknowledge it, some of the basic features of the intercultural State are already present in European legal systems (special jurisdictions, personal law), whereas others are emerging at the national and local level (as in representation and participation patterns). The research group aims to investigate to what extent these institutions can no longer be considered exceptions within the consolidated monistic legal paradigm but as evidence of a qualitative shift towards the model of intercultural State, whose constitutive features will be systematized in primers intended to assist intercultural workers and civil servants.