The IAU 2023 International Conference, hosted by QatarUniversity in Doha, convened some 300 participants from80 countries to discuss “Higher Education with Impact: theImportance of Intercultural Learning and Dialogue”.More than 30 years ago, the UNESCO Director-General, FedericoMayor Zaragoza, addressed the IAU conference statingthat “universality and diversity are not to be construed asopposition, but rather a dialectic, which has as its synthesisinterdependence”. In the current cont