Schools and colleges are celebrating diversity by asking young people what it means to share one place with others.
The theme of Community Relations and Cultural Awareness Week, which runs until October 4, is One Place, Many People.
Almost 200 events are taking place across the north to mark the week which celebrates diversity and highlights best practice.
Cultural awareness, inclusion, identity and diversity are among the issues teachers and pupils are tackling in different ways using the arts, music, drama and sport.
In south Belfast, a group of young people from the Somali community will showcase a short film they produced about cultural diversity in schools. The event will give an insight into the difficulties and experiences that young people who are new to Northern Ireland face at school and their ideas about how to change things for them and others.
Organised by Public Achievement, Everyone Has a Chance to be Different will take place at Common Grounds Cafe on University Avenue on October 2 at 5pm and will be followed by a discussion and celebration with traditional music and food.
On the same day, St Paul's High School in Bessbrook will host a diversity event, during which non-national students will set up stalls with information about their culture, artefacts, traditional clothing and customs and samples of traditional dishes.
Year 8 pupils from St Paul's, St Joseph's High School in Crossmaglen and Newtownhamilton High School then have the opportunity to visit. Small groups will take part in activities and listen to facts about each culture.
Fane Street PS in south Belfast, which has significant numbers of newcomer children, is hosting a three-day multicultural festival to celebrate the school's diversity.
St Teresa's PS in west Belfast is celebrating the different cultures within their school with a special assembly and follow up class activities looking at culture and language.
Mitchell House School is organising a shared sports event on September 30 when children from Mitchell House and Victoria Park PS will work together with a local community group using sport to explore similarities and differences.
And, Dominican College in Belfast is hosting an international food week to celebrate the many cultures within the school and will also hold a cultural diversity workshop with displays.
A full listing of events can be found at www.nicrc.org.uk.
Community Relations Council chief executive Jacqueline Irwin said the theme was a timely reminder of some of the skills needed for living in the world today.
"Welcoming those that are different from us should be an essential part of everyday life here as we learn to live with our diversity. Knowing how to show respect to each other should be a fundamental expectation of everyone too as we learn to celebrate diversity," she said.
"If there is one big message that we hope everyone can take away from the week it is this: The job of learning to live peacefully together is not done. If we want this place to be positive, inclusive, welcoming and known throughout the world for those qualities, we all have to play a part in making it so: at village, town, city and regional levels."
