Conflict in Cities © 2007 All Rights Reserved
Conflict in Cities is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council of Great Britain (grant number: RES-060-25-0015)

For website general enquiries, please contact: info@conflictincities.org
Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge CB2 1PX, UK

HIGHLIGHTS

Related Event
Max Gwiazda, Milena Komarova and Craig Larkin will be presenting a joint session on aspects of ‘Conflict in Cities and the Contested State’ Project to the 'Culture of Reconstruction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Aftermath of Crisis Conference'. The conference is organised by The Cambridge University Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Group and will take place in St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge.


Project News
Mick Dumper has just undertaken a research visit to Jerusalem (4th-8th February). Based on discussions with a wide range of Israelis and Palestinians, he returned depressed about the post-Annapolis summit momentum in the peace process...
zoom in

'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.
︱Index︱Contact︱