ICR has been conducting diverse educational programs for international students for the past several years. It has been a country partner and an associate of International Honors Program, US for many of its programs in India. Fieldwork based educational activities of ICR are community oriented programs are meant to encourage student interaction with various communities who confront social, political, economic and environmental issues as a result of development projects. Fieldwork and community sites selected as program sites are often contested areas and are meant to help students to understand the realities of the impacts of development and how they affect communities living in the periphery.
Intercultural
Resources has been engaged in research on development
issues and peoples struggles. Non-governmental organisations often play
a vital role to create opinions on policies and laws and in what
context and how they are formed. Civil society organisations also help
in understanding the impacts of these policies and laws on communities
and they the state and its agencies use them to perpetually to exploit
natural resources and displace communities who are otherwise been
dependant on them. As a resarch and intervention oriented organisation
ICR undertakes activities to understand how these policies exacerbate
global inequalities and help create awareness about their impacts,
through various platforms. The state policies are often co-opted by
corporate interests.