In the second half of the 1990s, Italy began to seriously grapple with its own unforeseen change from a country of emigration to a country of immigration. In the universities – and especially for Education students - courses were developed whose aims and contents were meant to respond both to the educational needs of the slowly growing number of foreign born pupils, and to the need to avoid social conflicts.   The notions of multiculturalism, multicultural education, culture and interculture were transferred to a country and a school system that had experienced the great wave of internal migration from the North East and then the South of Italy between the mid 1950s and mid 1970s. With intercultural education cultural diversity was connected to migration and to the “otherness” of migrants’ ways and beliefs.   The elaboration of the discourse of Italian intercultural education in its dialectical relation with official statements issued by the Italian Ministry of Public Education, and indications from educazione alla pace e alla mondialità discourses and practice will be questioned and researched through archival work at the Ministry of Public Education, and publications on educazione alla pace e alla mondialità.   Possible area of focus: 1. The relation between intercultural education and the narration of nation states.