The interview with Sune Laegaard delves into the various issues associated with coexistence and the handling of diversity in contemporary plurally diverse societies. He frames toleration ‘as a way of handling diversity and resulting conflicts rather than as a mechanism that is supposed to make the problem go away’. He emphasizes that toleration is a first (and perhaps the most important step) ‘towards a different view of certain differences’. His distinction between ‘descriptive and moralized conceptions of toleration’ is particularly illuminating. In discussing the relationship between toleration, respect and recognition, he identifies the different modalities between these different approaches of handling diversity. As he emphasizes, ‘I think it is much more useful to see many of the debates that have been going on under the heading of multiculturalism as debates about in which ways we should go ‘beyond’ toleration, i.e. about toleration is not sufficient, rather than as fundamental alternatives to or criticisms of toleration’.