Related Projects
UNESCO Podcast Project - The Heritage of War in Southeast Asia: Towards the intangible
Throughout 2021, the Warmap team are developing a podcast series focused on the popular histories of war and conflict in the Southeast Asian region, using the framework of intangible cultural heritage. Funded by UNESCO Jakarta, the ten part series will examine a variety of themes and conduct interviews with academics, local community members, curators and heritage linked NGO’s.
British Academy Supported Project - Living with Violent Heritage Exchange (LiVHERe)
The Living with Violent Heritage exchange (LiVHERe) provides new multidisciplinary insights into the relationship between heritage and conflict in the increasingly fraught setting of post-war Sri Lanka. Here, cultural and natural heritage have become weaponised tools of symbolic (and sometimes material) violence, inflaming inter-ethnic tensions and rupturing social cohesion in ways that policy makers and stakeholders have yet to address.
UNESCO Chair on Education for Peace, Social Justice and Global Citizenship, Kyushu University
This UNESCO Chair seeks to further understanding of the challenges facing education for peace, social justice and global citizenship in a world of rising inequality and international tension. Building on Kyushu University’s research strengths, and in collaboration with partners across Asia and beyond, it promotes research, postgraduate training and scholarly exchange with a view to: rethinking education’s purposes in the light of technological change and environmental crisis; critically reevaluating its role in shaping identity and civic consciousness; and investigating the implications of intensifying credentialism for social justice and sustainability.