Per,

Your idea of having a large group of people discussing one subject is ok,
but - wouldn't a discussion site to each of these matters be enough?  Or,
couldn't this be done through this very ICOM-L?

Tereza Scheiner
ICOFOM

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At 10:36 AM 2/3/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>On Wednesday Feb 2 Patrick Boylan wrote:
>>
>>A broadly based Ad Hoc committee on cultural diversity issues was set up
>>in Quebec in 1992, chaired by Amareswar Galla of Australia, and its final
>>report and recommendations were adopted in 1998 at Melbourne (in both the
>>General Assembly Resolutions and ICOM Forward Programme for 1999-2007).
>>
>Pat,
>
>I know very well about this committee, but this is not at all the kind of
>committee I have in mind. The committee mentioned above seemed to have
>restricted membership and it's aim was to make policy recommendations. All
>very good.
>
>I am thinking about committees that are just as open to all ICOM members as
>the present international committees are, with the aim of debating an
>issue. These debates may be scholarly, practical or political in character
>(or a mix, as our debates usually are) and the aim is not necessarily to
>present a single final document, but to give food for thought that may have
>theoretical, practical and/or political consequences.
>
>Per B. Rekdal
>ICME Chairperson
>
>
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