Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS)

The Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS) was founded in Belgrade in 2009. It is a research and educational center at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Belgrade Singidunum University. OUR MISSION The CFCCS is an educational center dedicated to the comparative analysis of societies in conflict. Working primarily within the context of the conflicts in the former republics of Yugoslavia and Palestine/Israel, the Center provides opportunities for university students, scholars, activists and educators to critically engage in the study and analysis of conflict, its transformations, and various roles taken up within conflicts. In so doing, the Center offers theoretical and practical resources for those working to be effective agents of social change. We achieve our goals by offering comparative interdisciplinary frameworks for understanding dynamics within societies in conflict. COMPARATIVE CONFLICT ANALYSIS The conflicts in the republics of the former Yugoslavia and/or in Palestine/Israel are at the center of the personal, political, and academic lives of our team and therefore our programs. We aim to de-exceptionalize these conflicts by examining them within a broader comparative framework. We believe that studying another conflict allows participants and students, who self-identify as members of groups in conflict, to explore and engage with new perspectives from which challenging questions are raised and tentative answers are consider.