Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research

The Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) was founded in 1974 as an interdisciplinary network for trainers and researchers in the area of intercultural and cross-cultural communication.{{cite book|last1=Marquardt|first1=Michael|last2=Loan|first2=Michael Marquardt, Nancy Berger, Peter|last3=Berger|first3=Nancy|author4=Peter Loan|title=HRD in the Age of Globalization: A Practical Guide to Workplace Learning in the Third Millennium|url=https://archive.org/details/hrdinageofglobal0000marq|url-access=registration|accessdate=25 February 2014|date=2004-08-18|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=9780786729890|pages=[https://archive.org/details/hrdinageofglobal0000marq/page/132 132]–}}

As of 2004, SIETAR had a network of national and regional professional networks with more than 3,000 members worldwide. It holds NGO status with the United Nations. Kathryn Sorrells states that it "played a central role in facilitating collaboration among intercultural practitioners".{{cite book|last=Sorrells|first=Kathryn|editor=Jackson, Jane|title=The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9H6pAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA374|accessdate=25 February 2014|date=2012-03-15|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136649530|pages=374–}} For a time, SIETAR was the publisher of the International Journal of Intercultural Relations before the publication was taken over by the International Academy of Intercultural Research.{{cite book|last=Exchange|first=Peace Corps (U.S.). Information Collection and|title=Culture matters trainer's guide.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5jrebkvGJW8C&pg=PA139|accessdate=25 February 2014|year=1999|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=9781428926936|pages=139–}}

SIETAR has many different bodies, like Argentina, Austria, Brazil, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Europe, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA, and Young Sietar.