skip to main content
European Commission Logo
en English
Newsroom

Overview    Featured projects    Achievements

PEACEMED takes new approach to understanding an old conflict

By comparing urban dynamics in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, this ambitious European-funded research project mapped inter-ethnic relations in contested cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. Its findings are intended to help policymakers understand the situation and could empower them to implement change.

Related topics

Innovation Funding Researchers Society Social Science & Humanities Marie Skłodowska Curie actions Science with and for Society Hungary

date:  03/06/2016

Project:  Mediterranean Cities in Conflict: Urban ...

acronym:  PEACEMED

See also:  CORDIS

Perhaps nowhere has felt the impact of intimate proximity and visceral violence more than the ethnically mixed towns of Palestine and Israel. To better understand this historical conflict, with the objective of providing new insights into conflict-resolution, the EU-funded PEACEMED project examined the conflictual relationship arising from urban cohabitation between Jews and Palestinians within a relational framework and via ethnographic and historical research.

Read more