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Conflict, mobility and cultural change? Mobilities and Conflict Network (MCN)

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Culture influences how people view and understand the world around them, and establishes a framework for how people act and interact with their environment. Conflict and associated mobilities increase encounters between cultures and place cultural practic es under pressure. A growing number of people and societies experience rapid, extensive and radical change - in particular as conflict and mobility is part of the social existence of many. The Mobilities and Conflict Network (MCN) aims to analyse the inte ractions of people with their environments, in the context of mobilities and conflict, seeking to understand the ways in which societal change is affected. The network will explore how mobilities and conflict are shaped by cultural prerequisites and how t he outcomes of mobilities and conflict change culture and instigate social change. We wish to explore this research theme in four different spaces: refugee camps; cities; sites of return and transnational spaces. The MCN aims to explore these issues throu gh inter- and multi-disciplinary cooperation between humanities scholars and social scientists studying the interlinkages between mobilities and conflict. While having high theoretical ambitions, the network has great policy relevance as well. For many Eu ropean citizens and governments, the impact of migration on national identities has been a growing cause of concern and has led to increasingly restrictive migration regimes. Tensions within multicultural societies increase, as the cultural underpinnings of once more homogenous societies are perceived to be challenged. The network is a collaboration between PRIO, CMI and NTNU, and will host a seminar series on the Mobility-Conflict Nexus. It will also produce a special issue and develop a larger research project.

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