General aims

The Global Dialogue Prize is awarded to recognize the relevance of outstanding intercultural research on values contributing to global communication and cooperation.

Cultural and existential values represent a community's sense for the conditions that make for human flourishing, social and personal well-being, and moral purpose. As communities and cultures increasingly encounter each other in our globalized societies, each with its different set of situated values, the need to facilitate dialogue, cultural growth, and peaceful interaction becomes ever more pressing.

The Global Dialogue Prize was established in order to promote the principle that intercultural understanding is a primary social good of the present age, a fact that is too little recognized. Honoring research in intercultural value studies, and its application in public communication around the world, the award shall send a message that it is vital to nurture these scholarly and cultural endeavors in the present and future generations. The award serves exclusively scholarly and cultural purposes and shall foster research communication among scholars in intercultural value studies from around the world.

Focus

The Global Dialogue Prize is awarded in recognition of superior research in intercultural dialogue and value studies (by persons, institutions, or organizations), as well as outstanding achievements in applying such research to promote the goal of increasing intercultural understanding and competence.

The prize is addressed to scholars and researchers in the humanities and other fields of scholarship and science relevant to intercultural value research, as well as to practitioners applying such research. The award will primarily honour research that creates a tangible precedent in the field of dialogical praxis: whether in international cultural policy, international management, responsible journalism, intercultural education, and in organizing intercultural ‘grassroots activities.’

Significance

The Global Dialogue Prize is intended to be one of world's most significant awards for intercultural value research. The award is set at 500 000 DKK. In association with the Global Dialogue Prize, five subsidiary research awards are to be allotted to young researchers (up to 2 years after their dissertation) from 2011 and onwards.