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Exploring and Assessing Intercultural Competence

Final Report of a Research Project conducted by the Federation of The Experiment in International Living with funding support from the Center for Social Development at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

• Executive Summary
• Final Report
• Appendix A FEIL Mission
• Appendix B FEIL and its Member Organizations
• Appendix C FEIL Brochure
• Appendix D Alternate Terms for Intercultural Communication (ICC)
• Appendix E ICC - A Construct
• Appendix F ICC Assessment Tools
• Appendix G Survey Form
• Appendix H Consent Form
• Appendix I ICC Bibliography
• Appendix J Article by Alvino Fantini
• Appendix K Bennett Article

Go to the Occasional Paper Series at the School for International Training website to read additional essays, articles and reports from the field of intercultural communication, language education, training and service.

Travel Resources

POWELL'S BOOKS An online bookstore provides an extensive selection of used and new books. Browse through their sections of Travel guides, Travel writing, and Foreign Language books.

Travel advisories and warnings according to:

• British Government
• U.S. Government (Elaine -- current site has broken link)
• Australian Government
• Canadian Government
• Travel tips from SIT's Overseas Travel Clinic
• Calculate foreign currency equivalents
• Health information: Centers for Disease Control
• Student Safety Abroad handbook for students and their parents

United Nations

• United Nations Millennium Goals
• The Millennium Campaign informs, inspires and encourages people’s involvement and action for the realization of the Millennium Development Goals. An initiative of the United Nations, the Campaign supports citizens’ efforts to hold their government to account for the Millennium promise.
• Projects for the Year 2006
• UN Volunteers website

UNESCO

• UNESCO Youth Coordination Unit
• International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non Violence home page
• Calender of events in the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non Violence
• Advice on how to promote the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence

Information for NGOs

• Conferences at the United Nations of interest to NGOs
• NGO page for the Council of Europe
• Crisis Management: USC Center for Global Education - SAFETI Program Audit List
  A guide for organizations to use in evaluating their policies and procedures with respect to safety
• Crisis Management Handbook from the USC Center for Global Education

Educational Resources

• Library of Congress country reports
• Interesting list of resources especially for refugees
• Report with statistics from The Institute for International Education
  

Miscellaneous

• Check what time it is in other places around the world
  
• Weather in Putney…or elsewhere

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