Peace and Conflict Cultural Network

和平与冲突文化网络将解决冲突后社会面临的复杂和有争议的问题，我们应该记住什么，我们应该忘记什么，以及最终为什么？它将探讨公开可见的记忆的作用及其对冲突后和解和愈合等问题的潜在影响，以及如何能够和应该（有意识和无意识地）记忆过程塑造现在和未来。这些关于记忆（和遗忘）的问题具有强烈的政治性，具有深远的影响，这些辩论对于文化记忆机构至关重要，这些机构与过去接触，以便理解现在并建立一个更和平的未来。因此，该网络将探讨公共机构（如博物馆和其他支持教育/提高认识的遗产地）如何处理过去？作为建设和平和预防冲突的一部分，这些机构在过渡时期司法和了解有争议的过去方面发挥了什么作用？该网络将寻求促进与学者和其他相关利益相关者的联系，并动员英国国内外选定地区参与和平、冲突和文化话语的艺术和社会机构。这是一个创新的网络，汇集了在冲突后社会和组织工作的学者，以及最近经历过武装冲突或种族灭绝的国家的博物馆从业者。它将探讨一个中心研究问题：博物馆和记忆遗址在处理记忆和冲突方面的作用是什么，它们如何更有效地促进宽容、复原力、群体间和种族间的合作？在这个问题中，该网络将处理一些子问题，如：博物馆在形成和维护文化记忆方面的责任是什么？哪些公众参与战略有效，哪些无效？在这些广泛的主题范围内，该网络将通过探讨相关从业人员和机构的案例研究，详细关注几个研究问题。首先，它将调查艺术和艺术家在博物馆/记忆场所中促进建设和平进程的作用。第二，该网络将促进围绕青年如何能够通过与博物馆/记忆遗址的接触积极参与建设和平的问题进行讨论，该网络将特别突出来自冲突后社会，特别是来自前南斯拉夫、卢旺达和五大湖地区、黎巴嫩和中东以及哥伦比亚和拉丁美洲的学术界和机构的贡献。它将促进一系列虚拟和物理研讨会和研讨会以及将于2022年和2023年在萨拉热窝举行的两次关于博物馆和记忆的大型会议。它将支持博物馆和其他公民社会行为者之间的几个现场项目的开发，包括斯雷布雷尼察种族灭绝纪念馆，波斯尼亚黑塞哥维那萨拉热窝的冲突后研究中心和巴尔干半岛的调查报告网络。

The Peace and Conflict Culture Network will address the complex and contested questions that face post conflict societies, of what should we remember, what should we forget, and, ultimately, why? It will explore the role of publicly visible memory and its potential impact on issues such as reconciliation and healing in the wake of conflict, and how could and should (consciously and unconsciously) memory processes shape the present and future. These questions of memory (and forgetting) are intensely political and have far-reaching consequences and these debates are vital to institutions of cultural memory that engage with the past in order to make sense of the present and build towards a more peaceful future. The network will therefore explore how public institutions (such as museums and other heritage sites that support education/awareness) can deal with the past? What is the role if any of such institutions in transitional justice and making sense of contested pasts as a part of peacebuilding and conflict prevention?The network will seek to facilitate connections with academics and other relevant stakeholders and mobilise arts and social institutions engaged in peace, conflict and cultural discourse in the UK and abroad in selected regions. It is an innovative network that brings together academics who work on post-conflict societies and organisations and museum practitioners in countries that have recently experienced armed conflicts or genocide. It will posit a central research question: what is the role of museums and memory sites that deal with memory and conflict, and how can they more effectively promote tolerance, resilience, inter-group and inter-ethnic cooperation? Within that question, the network will deal with a number of sub-questions, such as: What is a museum's responsibility in the formation and maintenance of cultural memory? Which strategies for public engagement work and which do not? Within these broad themes, the network will focus on several research questions in detail by exploring case studies from relevant practitioners and institutions. Firstly, it will investigate the role of art and artists in a museum/site of memory context in contributing to peacebuilding processes. Secondly, the network will facilitate discussions around the question of how youth can be engaged actively in peacebuilding through engagement with museums/sites of memory.The network will especially foreground the contribution from academics and institutions from post conflict societies in particular from the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and the Great Lakes region, Lebanon and the Middle East and Colombia and Latin America. It will facilitate a series of virtual and physical workshops and seminars and two major conferences on Museums and Memory to be held in Sarajevo in 2022 and 2023.It will support the development of several live projects between museums and other civic society actors including the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, The Post Conflict Research Centre in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, and the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network.