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A 2-day international conference organized by EUROCLIO member the AHDR and the PRIO Cyprus Center (PCC) discussed shared spaces and coexistence at the Home for Cooperation (H4C)
A conference entitled “Shared Spaces and their Dissolution: Practices of Coexistence in Cyprus and Elsewhere” which was held on 14 -15 October 2011 at the H4C hosted over 35 local and international academics from countries such as Greece, Turkey, the UK and US, in a series of simultaneous panels.
Reconciliation efforts in Cyprus often refer to a period of “coexistence” before the island’s division, as proof that the various communities of the island have lived together in the past and can therefore live together again.
Over 100 participants attended the conference, which aimed to use research on particular shared spaces to examine how everyday cooperative practices may have enabled centuries of cooperation and sharing, as well as how and when such sharing was disrupted. Papers presented at the conference, addressed practices of coexistence in Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, the Balkans and Israel/Palestine.
This conference is just one of the many important outcomes of the valuable cooperation with the AHDR and PCC.