This online-workshop brings together scholars from different research fields and traditions such as sociology, political science, theology, cultural studies, geography, anthropology and educational studies in order to kick-off an inter-disciplinary dialogue on societal understandings, conceptions, and practices of peace, non-violence, and conflict-resolution in different post-socialist countries and spaces.

The workshop will specifically take a closer look at society-based ideas and practices viable for establishing and maintaining peace or making peace work. This can touch the exploration of broader normative positions and discourses on peace, objectified for instance in literature and art or evidenced through survey research on public attitudes, or studies in practical peace education, as well as more narrow issues such as localized everyday practices and grass-root activities related to peace, non-violence and conflict-resolution. While our initial focus will be on Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, we ideally want to expand our focus on Poland and Hungary. All of these countries share a common socialist history as well as the experience of systemic transition, but all of them to different extent and scales are located at the interstices between different cultural, religious and political orders, which makes them vulnerable to conflict over different peace interpretations and practices.

Participants

• Dr. Regina Heller, ISFH (Hamburg)
• Dr. Christian Fröhlich, HSE (Moskau)
• Dr. Regina Elsner, ZOiS

Contact

For further information, please contact Dr. Regina Elsner (ZOiS).