Leeds provides intercultural mediation in a number of ways:
- Equalities Assembly: forum up of Equality Hubs, helping ensure the council engages/involves diverse communities. Public Sector Equality Duty provide this forum for cultural conflicts to be considered, debated and resolved assembly responsible for public complaints.[1]
- Prevent - intercultural mediation is integrated into the school curriculum by teachers building young people´s resilience to different cultures, faith and beliefs and involved in controlled debates on fundamental values.
- Partnerships to hold reassurance events after terrorist events and support faith organisations with funding to increase security after these incidents
- Facilitating dialogue via a number of mediums such as conflict resolution meetings in the case of heightened tensions, with less confrontational issues the city reports to promote and foster intercultural understanding as part of conversation dinners, community forums, galas and Community Committee meetings.
[1] https://www.leeds.gov.uk/your-council/equality-and-diversity/equalities-
