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Architecture and Peace: Navigating Conflict and Coexistence

The UN's International Day of Peace on September 21 highlights peace as an ongoing social process, not just a static condition. This year's theme, "Invest in Peace – For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day," emphasizes economic equity, institutional integrity, and civic life.

Conflict profoundly impacts physical spaces, transforming homes, infrastructure, and landscapes. War and instability can lead to displacement, reshaping urban areas and revealing how social and political tensions become embedded in the built environment through segregation and unequal resource access.

Architectural and urban projects explore the relationship between space, conflict, and social life. These range from post-conflict reconstruction and emergency housing to heritage preservation and the transformation of contested public spaces.

Rather than offering solutions to political conflicts, these projects examine how the built environment is affected by conflict and how spatial decisions can influence recovery, memory, displacement, and coexistence.

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