Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building (CoRe)

More than 200 excellent researchers from top 9 Czech academic institutions research the relationship between resilience and conflict in Czech society, conceived as a response to the unprecedented war situation in Ukraine and the ongoing climate, energy, migration and epidemiology crisis.

Thesis

Resilience – in particular on the social level – is based on the acceptance of social and political conflict as an integral and even productive part of the functioning of society. Our contribution to resolving the issue of “increasing society’s resilience to strengthen security” is to provide knowledge and practical models that would improve the society’s ability to constructively manage conflict within the framework of democratic principles while respecting individual and social freedoms.

Impact

The results of the project will strengthen resilience dynamics within Czech society and among individual actors and stakeholders of the democratic system. The main contribution of the proposed research will be the provision of practical tools, information, and digital models for the implementation of measures aimed at the preparedness of individuals and institutions for future crises and their impacts: to resolve conflicts and increase the ability to cooperate by strengthening information competence.

Focus

Innovative interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary crisis-dynamics combining humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

Creating models of contemporary society’s response to crisis phenomena using digital tools.

Working with individuals and communities to help identify their roles in the current situation and opportunities to strengthen the stability of the system.

Setting up effective cooperation with representatives of government and state institutions.

International Scientific Advisory Board

Christian Lequesne

Science Po (Paris)

Monica Brindzei

Institut de recherche et d`histoire des textes

Paul Chaisty

Oxford University

Juliane Fürst

Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Postdam

Helen Xanthai

University College London Law

Tomáš Pergler

Seznam.cz

The project is coordinated by the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in cooperation with the Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, Protestant Theological Faculty, and Hussite Theological Faculty at Charles University. Its Consortium Partners are the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Masaryk University – Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Laws and The University of Pardubice – Faculty of Arts.