Ateneo - UPO

The course will touch upon the main problematic issues under the legal profile of religious and cultural pluralism in Italy and Europe:
1) Evolution of the concept of belief and religion in Europe;
2) Ethical-moral conflicts in the field of birth (voluntary interruption of pregnancy and conscientious objection)
3) Freedom of expression and religious pluralism; hate speech; anti-Semitism and Islamophobia;
4) Democracy and the right to identity (religious and cultural symbols in education and law);
6) culturally motivated crimes. Culture as a cause of justification
7) discrimination phenomena

For participants:
Doctrinal and jurisprudential material provided to participants on the individual topics covered during the course and progressively entered for each lecture block on the DIR platform.

For non-attending participants:
M. Ricca, Dike meticcia. Rotte di diritto interculturale, Ruberttino, Soveria Mannelli, 2008, pp. 263

Knowledge of the main problems present in multicultural societies in order to:
• educating the new generations to a more mature citizenship (civic education);

• greater critical sensitivity and expertise on the issues of racism and discrimination on ethnic and religious grounds;

• knowledge of the legislation and jurisprudence on the subject at both national and EU level, useful for a basic knowledge of the problems that legal operators are faced with more and more frequently;

• knowledge of both national and international jurisprudence (EDU Court) in matters of religious freedom and anti-discrimination;

• better ability to deal with intersubjective dynamics connected to multicultural processes;

• In summary: the course moves along the guidelines indicated by the Council of Europe in the Living together Report. Combining diversity and freedom in the 21st-century Europe of 2011 which reads: “We urge educators and education authorities in all member states to develop“ intercultural competencies ”as a core element of school curricula, and to extend these beyond formal education to non- formal settings such as museums and cultural institutions, cultural events and festivals, and the particular media; the Council of Europe should continue its work on a conceptual framework to assist this development ".

Knowledge of the basics of public law, history and sociology is recommended.

The course is organised in lectures. Attendance at least 2/3 of the lectures is required in order to acquire the status of frequent attendee and benefit from the specific examination programme.

The course material will be transmitted in advance of the lecture to the participants via the DIR platform so that there can be a dialogue-based discussion in the classroom on the case law cases examined or the documents related to the lecture block.
The course will be supported by multimedia tools (DVD, YouTube, Skype) and will make use of the expertise of external lecturers on site or via Skype. Some lessons may be held in a foreign language (French -English)

The assessment of learning will partly take place in the classroom throughout the course by evaluating the degree of active participation of students in the discussion of the topics introduced and developed in the 'frontal' part of the course.
For those attending the course, a further assessment will be carried out at the end of the course by means of an oral interview that will test three skills: i) knowledge of the issues, sources of law, case law and legal institutions examined during the course; ii) property of language and legal reasoning; iii) ability to analyse a judgement; iv) ability to apply the rules and institutions through the solution of a practical case.
For non-attenders. The written preparation of a paper on essays proposed to them during the course.

Reflect on the problems connected to multi-religious societies in a citizenship education perspective. This objective is in full harmony both with what is required by the Council of Europe in the Report and with the European Parliament with the Resolution on the role of intercultural dialogue, cultural diversity and education in the promotion of the fundamental values of the Union of 19 January 2016 .
In these documents we recognize the importance of training to educate new generations to live together in equality and dignity, emphasizing that a true intercultural and interdenominational dialogue fosters positive interactions and cooperation by enabling a better understanding and respect among cultures by strengthening, in this way, both the democratic pact and the sensitivity towards universal values and specific cultures. For this reason, the concept developed by the jurisprudence of the Court of Strasbourg and the Council of Europe of "living together" will be used as a key word throughout the course, reflecting on how it is possible, today, to allow peaceful coexistence in multi-ethnic societies and multireligious. In doing so we will ask ourselves what are the difficulties of living together with respect to: i) the dialectic between freedom of expression and religious freedom; ii) the use of ethnic / religious symbols in the public and institutional space; iv) the circulation of models of personal status of religious matrix in the state legal systems; v) the evolution of policies regarding relations between states, the EU and the Council of Europe and religious organizations; vi) national freedom of religion and conscience policies.

1) Results on the level of civic education: maturation of a more critical social conscience on the issues of diversity; the fight against discrimination, respect for human rights

2) Results on the full transversal competences: expository capacity in the classroom and during the examination verifications; properties of legal language; ability to resolve problematic issues of a legal nature; ability to apply the rules to concrete cases