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General Information

• Project title: History as an Instrument of Contemporary International Conflicts
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Institute of Journalism and International Relations
• Country: Poland (PL)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  politics of memory; history; international relations; historical disputes

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  The problem of the influence of history on contemporary international politics is a demanding field of research, which as a necessary condition requires broad interdisciplinary studies engaging a large international research team. Historical resentments, memory of past injuries or successes could be elements of identity, and as a consequence also of a political narrative of a particular society. The task requires setting up an interdisciplinary research team in order to implement such a broad research project. The team should consist of specialists in the fields of history, political science, international relations, sociology, psychology, social anthropology, media studies, of those with a knowledge of systems of education and school textbooks, and of specialists in WWW-based communication analysis in the domain of the social sciences.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  The international research project "History as an Instrument of Contemporary International Conflicts"was launched in 2018. The aim of the project is an analysis of historical phenomena regarding history itself being treated as a subject or aninstrument of contemporary disputes and conflicts between states and nations. The results of the project will be presented within a multivolume edition including volumes on disputes and conflicts between states and nations regarding history in particular parts of the world, as well as in a volume on the outcomes of the comparative analyses of discussed conflicts including recommendations referring to conflict prevention and conflict solution in the presented context. The research project so far has resulted in two scientific conferences and two publications: Instrumentalizing the Past: The Impact of History on Contemporary International Conflicts, edited by Professors Jan Rydel and Stefan Troebst, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. Different Shades of the Past: History as an Instrument of Contemporary International Conflicts, edited by Mateusz Kamionka and Przemysław Łukasik, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023.

Przemyslaw Lukasik

• Organisation: Institute of Journalism and International Relations
• Position: Adjunct
• E-mail: przemyslaw.lukasik@up.krakow.pl
• Web: historyconflicts.up.krakow.pl/