B6 - Loyalty and Minority Conflicts in the Baltics, H. Hein-Kirchner

B6 - Loyalty and Minority Conflicts in the Baltics from the turn of the Century until 1940

Key Questions

How do conflicts impact the local and regional levels?

How do these alter loyalties and identities within cities and their surrounding areas?

How do multiple and/or contrasting loyalties develop?

How do the relationships between ethno-confessional groups change?

Objectives

Historicising interpretations of current Baltic conflict situations

Contribution to the understanding of contrasting and/or multiple loyalties regarding approaches to conflict

Contribution to the understanding of European conflict zones through an analysis of examples of shifts in loyalty and minority conflicts

Project Heads

Director: Dr. Heidi Hein-Kircher

Dorctoral Candidate: Vera Volkmann, M.A.