The Cultural Value Project Cultural Relations in ‘Societies in Transition’ Joint Academic Report Helmut Anheier, Marie Gillespie, Malte Berneaud-Kötz, Olga Kononykhina, Regina A. List, Dounia Mahlouly, Eva Nieto McAvoy, Ben O’Loughlin, Olga Onuch, and Colin Wilding November 2018 Table of Contents List of Tables and Figures ...........................................................................................................4 Research Teams ..........................................................................................................................5 Acknowledgements .....................................................................................................................8 Executive Summary .................................................................................................................. 10 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 15 2 Literature Review: Cultural Relations in ‘Societies in Transition’ ...................................... 18 2.1 Defining cultural relations? ......................................................................................... 19 2.2 Summary .................................................................................................................... 25 3 Methodology ...................................................................................................................... 27 3.1 Researching international cultural relations: collaborative synergies ........................... 27 3.2 The Cultural Relations Diamond approach .................................................................. 27 3.3 The Cultural Value Model ........................................................................................... 32 3.4 Collaborative synergies ............................................................................................... 38 3.5 Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 39 4 Findings Ukraine................................................................................................................ 41 4.1 Context ....................................................................................................................... 41 4.2 Case Studies ................................................................................................................ 58 4.3 Summary of Findings and Implications: Ukraine ......................................................... 76 5 Findings Egypt ................................................................................................................... 79 5.1 Context ....................................................................................................................... 79 5.2 Case Studies ................................................................................................................ 98 5.3 Summary of Findings and Implications: Egypt .......................................................... 119 6 General findings and recommendations ............................................................................ 121 6.1 How do cultural relations create value? ..................................................................... 121 6.2 How can and do cultural relations contribute to strengthening security and civil society in ‘societies in transition’? ....................................................................................... 125 6.3 What types of cultural relations works best? .............................................................. 128 6.4 General recommendations ......................................................................................... 129 6.5 Conclusion ................................................................................................................ 131 7 References ....................................................................................................................... 133 Appendix 1: CRD Organisational Survey and Workshop Statistics .......................................... 137 Appendix 2: Cultural relations maps ....................................................................................... 143 Cultural Relations Map: selected projects and events in Ukraine, 2015–17 .......................... 143 Cultural Relations Map: selected projects and events in Egypt, 2015-17 .............................. 144 2 Appendix 3: Hertie School of Governance Organisational Survey Questionnaire (Egypt, English) .................................................................................................................................. 145 Appendix 4: CRD Aggregation Codebook............................................................................... 156 Appendix 5: Data sources for CVM ........................................................................................ 167 Ukraine................................................................................................................................ 167 Egypt ................................................................................................................................... 172 Template workshop 1 .......................................................................................................... 176 Template workshop 2 .......................................................................................................... 177 Appendix 6: CVM Survey Data: Components, Questions and Scores ...................................... 179 Active Citizens .................................................................................................................... 179 Luhansk’s ART & FACTs ................................................................................................... 183 Al-Azhar ............................................................................................................................. 187 Kulturakademie ................................................................................................................... 192 Film Week ........................................................................................................................... 198 Appendix 7: Rich pictures ....................................................................................................... 203 Active Citizens .................................................................................................................... 203 Luhansk’s ART & FACTs ................................................................................................... 204 Al-Azhar ............................................................................................................................. 205 Kulturakademie MENA ....................................................................................................... 206 Kulturakademie Egypt ......................................................................................................... 207 Film Week ........................................................................................................................... 208 3 List of Tables and Figures Tables Table 1: CRD Dimensions and Subdimensions.......................................................................... 32 Figures Figure 1: CVM Constellation, blank .......................................................................................... 36 Figure 2: Example of a scored constellation (Active Citizens) ................................................... 37 Figure 3. Cultural Actors in Ukraine ......................................................................................... 44 Figure 4: Cultural Relations Diamond: Ukraine ......................................................................... 48 Figure 5: Benefits of cooperating with international cultural organisations, Ukraine .................. 49 Figure 6. International cultural organisations (Ukraine) ............................................................. 51 Figure 7. Joint project outcomes, Ukraine ................................................................................. 55 Figure 8. Constellation for Active Citizens ................................................................................ 62 Figure 9: Constellation for Luhansk’s ART & FACTs ............................................................... 70 Figure 10. Cultural Actors in Egypt ........................................................................................... 81 Figure 11: Cultural Relations Diamond: Egypt .......................................................................... 87 Figure 12: Benefits of cooperating with international cultural organisations, Egypt ................... 88 Figure 13. International cultural organisations (Egypt) .............................................................. 90 Figure 14. Joint project outcomes, Egypt ................................................................................... 94 Figure 15: Constellations for Al-Azhar .................................................................................... 101 Figure 16: Constellation for Kulturakademie MENA ............................................................... 108 Figure 17: Constellation for Kulturakademie Egypt ................................................................. 109 Figure 18: Constellation for Film Week .................................................................................