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The History for Peace project serves as a platform for discussion, debate and the exchange of ideas pertaining to teaching and learning of history for peace and understanding.

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Deconstructing the Idea of Belonging - Anwesha Sengupta

This lecture was delivered at the Idea of Belonging Conference, Coimbatore held in October 2024. I will begin by recounting an experience that we had in November 2022 when we did a workshop at Shantiniketan—a small university town near Kolkata—with school children studying in classes 4 and 5. We conducted a workshop where we made multiple cards that could be classified into two broad categories—national identities (Indian, German, British etc.) and non-national identities (religious...

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Heritage and Belonging - Swapna Liddle

This lecture was delivered at the Idea of Belonging Conference in Coimbatore on 5, 6 October, 2024

Memory and the Idea of Belonging - Priyanka Seshadri

This lecture was delivered at the Idea of Belonging Conference in Coimbatore on 5, 6 October 2024.

Memory, Recognition and Reconciliation: Cultivating the Sense of Belonging - Priyadarshini Vijaisri

This lecture was delivered at the Idea of Belonging Conference held in Coimbatore on 5, 6 October 2024.

Who Belongs and Who Decides?: Countering Majoritarian Narratives in Sri Lanka - Shamara Wettimuny

This lecture was delivered at the annual History for Peace conference on the 'Idea of Belonging' held in Calcutta, 2024.

The Illusion of Belonging - Karen Donoghue, Kanato Chophy and Monideepa Banerjie

This conversation was part of the annual History for Peace conference on the 'Idea of Belonging' which took place in Calcutta, 2024.