Inside ICCS: Building on Success from 2019 to 2022

Yet, beyond the number of themes and speakers, it is the quality of conversations, and the practices that result, that matters. [...] As such, real connections and skills-building were encouraged in grassroots groups like the Racial and Religious Harmony Circles (at the time known as the Inter-Racial and Religious Confidence Circles). [...] The breakout sessions seek to bring practitioners and people involved in initiatives in organisations and at the grassroots level to provide practical ideas about best practices and skills building. [...] Moreover, what was clear at ICCS 2019 was that beyond the expertise of panels and speakers, leading scholars, practitioners, and experts were also amongst the delegates, leading to much sharing and knowledge exchange in questions, and conversations both inside and outside the main talks and workshops. [...] It is never enough to think that things are OK now because the vicissitudes of fate and the polemics of hatemongers can reach every corner of the globe.