The arts and culture can play an important role in supporting the international community’s efforts to stabilise societies experiencing or recovering from conflict. Culture plays a role in supporting resilience and fostering development in fragile contexts, both for conflict prevention and post-conflict recovery.

In order to build on the findings of previous reports EUNIC would like to commission an in-depth review on what is the added value of culture and cultural relations in a fragile context in supporting peace and reconciliation. This could include mapping and reviewing of EUNIC members’ projects in fragile environments, the different operational models and their adaptivity to different contexts in different countries and regions.

Research question: Examine how taking a cultural relations approach to cultural programmes supports peace and stability in fragile contexts.

Particularly examining projects/programmes and the evidence base that focuses on confidence building, skills training, self-expression, intergroup understanding and tolerance in a cultural relations context, the specific values of the approaches, considering the context and how effective these focuses might be.

The deadline for proposals is: Monday, 30 November 2020. We are expecting the research to be submitted by approximately May 2021, with the final publication due in September 2021. Find the Terms of Reference here. Please email your proposals to: research@eunicglobal.eu.