Conflict in Cities International Workshop in Jerusalem: "Jerusalem and other Contested Cities"

On 10-12 January 2010

Conflict in Cities held an international Workshop on "Jerusalem and other Contested Cities".
A full day of tours of Jerusalem on 10 January was followed by a two-day Project Workshop held at the Notre Dame Centre in Jerusalem.

Workshop booklet including full programme and abstracts and biographies is available to download here: www.conflictincities.org/PDFs/CinC%20Workshop%20booklet.pdf

'Conflict in Cities and the Contested State' is a five year research project starting in 2007 that focuses on divided cities as key sites in territorial conflicts over state and national identities, cultures and borders. The research objectives are to analyse how divided cities in Europe and the Middle East have been shaped by ethnic, religious and national conflicts, and conversely, how such cities can absorb, resist and potentially play a role in transforming the territorial conflicts which pervade and surround them. The project seeks to understand the cities as arenas of intensified ethno-national conflicts, particularly with respect to the role that architecture and the urban fabric play as a setting and background for everyday activities and events. Phenomena related to creating, maintaining, crossing, transcending or ignoring ethnic and territorial borders, both physical and symbolic, are central to the study.

Conflict in Cities and the Contested State is generously funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of Great Britain. It builds on an earlier project begun in 2003 and supported by the ESRC

Website of research project: www.conflictincities.org

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