10  •  Guidance Note of the Secretary-General on Racial Discrimination and Protection of Minorities are particular to each minority community. Such preventive measures are directly or indirectly related to the constructive management of diversity. They may include a broad range of options that promote equality and nondiscrimination, participation and representation, respect for the rule of law and fundamental human rights. UN activities should thus encourage local stakeholders to support the constructive management of diversity as a tool to prevent and mitigate identity-based tensions. 25. One of the ways in which this could be addressed is by promoting diversity among UN staff, including through developing diversity action plans to recruit staff from minority communities and other staff with expertise on minority issues, access to communities and local languages. Staff with particular expertise on minority issues and languages can enrich the analysis and improve the implementation of UN action in the area of development and other key fields for minorities. 10. Cooperate with regional mechanisms 26. A number of regional organizations have designed norms, mechanisms and programmes to combat racial discrimination and/or to advance protection of minorities, which are complementary with those developed by the UN. In order to ensure the maximum combined impact, the UN system should work closely with these organizations and, where appropriate, pursue joint initiatives to bolster work against racial discrimination and to promote minority rights. The relevance of regional experiences extends, inter alia, to development programming, humanitarian assistance and conflict prevention initiatives. For example, as the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change recommended, “the United Nations should build on the experience of regional organizations in developing frameworks for minority rights”.10 11. Enhance intercultural, inter-ethnic and interreligious dialogue 27. Support for languages and other elements of identities of minorities is of central importance to minority protection. This should, however, be done in a manner that does not reinforce divisions within societies, but ­rather enhances intercultural, inter-ethnic and interreligious dialogue. This can imply, for example, that the UN system supports new communication channels between religious minorities and supports efforts encouraging the majority to learn languages of minorities and vice versa in a manner that fully respects the right of persons belonging to minorities to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own language. 10 “A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility”, Report of the Secretary-General’s Highlevel Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, 2004.