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Kick-Off Meeting for CORE

The EU-funded project Cultures of Governance and Conflict Resolution in Europe and India (CORE) held its kick-off meeting on Friday, February 11 in Brussels. Participants included representatives from all ten project partners in the consortium, as well as the five members of the advisory board, the scientific project officer Angela Liberatore from the European Commission, and a representative from the newly established European Union External Actions Service (EEAS). Attending the meeting from Berghof Conflict Research were Hans J. Giessmann, Ulrike Petri and Janel B. Galvanek.
The CORE project was officially launched in January 2011. It will analyse the premises and operation of governance initiatives in conflict transformation processes through a combination of fieldwork, qualitative analysis and theory development. The project aims to fill the gap in knowledge about the impact that governance agendas have on local conflict dynamics, especially in the cases where identity mobilisation is a prominent factor. Research concerning recent governance practices will be carried out within case studies in Bihar, Bosnia, Cyprus, Georgia, North East India and Kashmir.
More information can be found under the project’s website.