Goya: Scene form the Spanish war of independence. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) / Wikimedia Commons
Goya: Scene form the Spanish war of independence. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) / Wikimedia Commons

For three days, academics from institutions all over the world are meeting at PRIO for an exchange on culture and violent conflict.

Humanities Approaches to Culture and Violent Conflict

  • Culture and Violent Conflict: the Need for a Humanities Approach to Peace and Conflict Studies
  • Culture Scandal as Public Stage: Exposing the Norms that Sustain Violence in Israel/Palestine
  • Structural Evil? Locating Violence Between Mechanics and Representation in War Games

Cultures of War

  • The Distinct Military Cultures of 32 Battalion, Koevoet, and SWATF
  • Dark Dystopian Consumption of Violent Extremism: Visual Analysis of ISIS Propaganda Videos
  • Words on Violence and the ‘Full Freight of History’
  • Tamil Militancy in Sri Lanka and the Role of Religion and Cultural Expressions

Violence and Conflict Transformation

  • Norwegian Imaginaries of Bandits and Revolutionaries
  • Investigating Patterns of Violence: Movement and Conflict Transformation
  • A Culture of Peace and Violence in the Tahrir Movement

Arts and Activism in Contexts of Violent Conflict

  • Arts and Activism: the Role of Artists in (Post-)Conflict Societal Transformation
  • Slam Poetry in Africa, an Arm to Fight Conflict and Oppression

Arts and Activism in Contexts of Violent Conflict

  • The Artistic Imagination, Activism & the Hostile Immigration Environment: Reflections on advancing refugee resettlement and humanitarianism in the West
  • On music and resistance: the struggle for self-assertion in the Colombian South Pacific Coast
  • Materialising ‘Practical hope’: Arts and Activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The way forward: emerging themes, visions and structures

For the full programme, please see the attachment in the column to the right on this page.