RE 4 Healing: Crossborder Remembrance, Reconnection, Restoring and Resilience

Mednarodni CERV projekt je inovativen interdiciplinaren projekt, v katerem bodo antropologi, zgodovinarji in psihoterapevti iz obmejnih območij Slovenije, Italije in Avstrije poskušali prispevati k spravi, pomiritvi in zdravljenju travmatiziranih obmejnih družb zaradi težke obmejne zgodovine (fašizem, nacizem, druga svetovna vojna, istrski eksodus). Projekt se ukvarja s spominjanjem, ponovnim povezovanjem, obnavljanjem, odpornostjo in zdravljenjem obmejnih skupnosti z nasprotujočimi si travmatičnimi spomini vzdolž nekdanje železne zavese. Nedavna preteklost teh večetničnih slovensko-italijanskih in slovensko-avstrijskih obmejnih območij je bila obremenjena s totalitarnimi, avtoritarnimi režimi (fašizem, nacizem), zločini druge svetovne vojne in medetničnimi konflikti. Spomini ljudi, ki so živeli drug ob drugem, so bili politično zlorabljeni in danes tekmujejo za status žrtve. Spomin ene skupine se uporablja za imunizacijo proti sosednji skupini. Medtem ko so nekateri spomini izpostavljeni, so drugi zamolčani, prezrti. Ugotavlja se potreba po spodbujanju medkulturnega, medetničnega in mednarodnega dialoga, ki spodbuja oblikovanje skupnega evropskega spomina, temelječega na odgovornosti, samokritičnosti in empatičnem pogledu na drugega. Spomini zamolčanih skupin, ki so bili v prevladujočih nacionalnih spominih zamolčani, bodo dobili glas prek nadgradnje v zgodovinskem, antropološkem, edukacijskem in psihoterapevtskem okviru.

The International CERV project is an innovative interdisciplinary project in which anthropologists, historians and psychotherapists from the border areas of Slovenia, Italy and Austria will try to contribute to the reconciliation and healing of border societies traumatised by the difficult border history (fascism, Nazism, World War II, Istrian exodus). The project addresses borderland remembrance, reconnection, restoring, resilience and healing of communities with conflicting, traumatic memories along the former Iron Curtain. The recent past in these multi-ethnic Slovenian-Italian and Slovenian-Austrian borderlands has been burdened by totalitarian, authoritarian regimes (fascism, Nazism), World War II crimes and inter-ethnic conflicts. The memories of people living side by side have been politically abused and today compete for victimhood. A memory of one group is used to immunise against its neighbour. While some memories are exposed, others are silenced, ignored. A need has been identified to foster intercultural, inter-ethnic and international dialogue which encourages the construction of a shared European memory based on responsibility, self-criticism, emphatic view of the “other”. Memories of silenced groups which have been neglected in dominant national memories will be given voice by upgrading them in a historical, anthropological, educational and psychotherapeutic frame.

Project title: RE 4 Healing: Crossborder Remembrance, Reconnection,
Restoring and Resilience
Acronym: RE4 Healing
Project type: CERV Lump Sum Grants
Project coordinator: Univerza na Primorskem, Fakulteta za humanistične študije / University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities
Project leader: prof. dr. Katja Hrobat Virloget

Project partners:
Zavod Epiona;
Associazione Culturale Quarantasettezeroquattro;
Pädagogische Hochschule Kärnten;
Fixmedia, Zavod za razvoj filmske ustvarjalnosti Ljubljana;
Cultural Heritage Directorate Ministry of Culture, Slovenia (associated partner)

Financing: European Commission, Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)
Duration: 1. 3. 2025-28. 2. 2027

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union.Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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