There are three ways known to the ICLS management in which our alumni are able to contribute to local decision and policy making in the area of intercultural relations:

1. Some of them individually reach political office, senior managerial or consultancy positions where their duties include involvement in policy making and other relevant decisions; work in the mass media or set up their own means of mass communication, including effective use of the internet as an interactive medium and thereby influence policy making;

2. The local authorities take the local Network of Trust and its young adult members seriously and engage them in consultations on council strategies and policies in relation to community relations or social cohesion;

3. They reach a 'critical mass' in different sectors of a city where they informally keep their network alive through their ICLS experience and the mutual acceptance of the ICLS Principles. This is not an 'old boys network'; it is a 'young girls and boys network' which apparently works in the local context on the basis of mutual trust and shared values and concerns.

Principle 7 of the ICLS reads: "We jointly implement these principles, in the same way as the two golden lines meet and rise together in the symbol of the ICLS. We are leading partnerships for applying the arts of peace in the governance of contemporary diversity." Participants of the ICLS seminars stay in contact with each other through the interactive, dialogue-oriented intercultural network of trust. They maintain or acquire new contacts, participate in new training activities and develop joint projects.