The Cultural Value Project Cultural Relations in ‘Societies in Transition’ Joint Academic Report Marie Gillespie, Helmut Anheier, Eva Nieto McAvoy, Olga Kononykhina, Ben O’Loughlin, Malte Berneaud-Kötz, Olga Onuch, Dounia Mahlouly, Regina List, 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 .................................................................................................. 39 3.5 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................... 40 4 Findings Ukraine ................................................................................................................... 42 4.1 Context ........................................................................................................................... 42 4.2 Case Studies ................................................................................................................... 59 4.3 Summary of Findings and Implications: Ukraine .......................................................... 77 5 Findings Egypt ....................................................................................................................... 80 5.1 Context ........................................................................................................................... 80 5.2 Case Studies ................................................................................................................... 99 5.3 Summary of Findings and Implications: Egypt ........................................................... 120 6 General findings and recommendations .............................................................................. 122 6.1 How do cultural relations create value? ....................................................................... 122 6.2 How can and do cultural relations contribute to strengthening security and civil society in ‘societies in transition’? ...................................................................................................... 126 6.3 What types of cultural relations works best? ............................................................... 129 6.4 General recommendations ............................................................................................ 130 6.5 Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 132 7 References ........................................................................................................................... 134 Appendix 1: CRD Organisational Survey and Workshop Statistics ........................................... 138 2 Appendix 2: Cultural relations maps .......................................................................................... 144 Cultural Relations Map: selected projects and events in Ukraine, 2015–17 ........................... 144 Cultural Relations Map: selected projects and events in Egypt, 2015-17 ............................... 145 Appendix 3: Hertie School of Governance Organisational Survey Questionnaire (Egypt, English) ..................................................................................................................................................... 146 Appendix 4: CRD Aggregation Codebook ................................................................................. 157 Appendix 5: Data sources for CVM ........................................................................................... 168 Ukraine .................................................................................................................................... 168 Egypt ....................................................................................................................................... 173 Template workshop 1 .............................................................................................................. 177 Template workshop 2 .............................................................................................................. 178 Appendix 6: CVM Survey Data: Components, Questions and Scores ....................................... 180 Active Citizens ........................................................................................................................ 180 Luhansk’s ART & FACTs ...................................................................................................... 184 Al-Azhar .................................................................................................................................. 188 Kulturakademie ....................................................................................................................... 193 Film Week ............................................................................................................................... 199 Appendix 7: Rich pictures .......................................................................................................... 204 Active Citizens ........................................................................................................................ 204 Luhansk’s ART & FACTs ...................................................................................................... 204 Al-Azhar .................................................................................................................................. 205 Kulturakademie MENA .......................................................................................................... 207 Kulturakademie Egypt............................................................................................................. 208 Film Week ............................................................................................................................... 209 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) .................................................... 38 Figure 3. Cultural Actors in Ukraine ............................................................................................ 45 Figure 4: Cultural Relations Diamond: Ukraine ........................................................................... 49 Figure 5: Benefits of cooperating with international cultural organisations, Ukraine .................. 50 Figure 6. International cultural organisations (Ukraine) ............................................................... 52 Figure 7. Joint project outcomes, Ukraine .................................................................................... 56 Figure 8. Constellation for Active Citizens .................................................................................. 63 Figure 9: Constellation for Luhansk’s ART & FACTs ................................................................ 71 Figure 10. Cultural Actors in Egypt .............................................................................................. 82 Figure 11: Cultural Relations Diamond: Egypt ............................................................................ 88 Figure 12: Benefits of cooperating with international cultural organisations, Egypt ................... 89 Figure 13. International cultural organisations (Egypt) ................................................................ 91 Figure 14. Joint project outcomes, Egypt ..................................................................................... 95 Figure 15: Constellations for Al-Azhar ...................................................................................... 102 Figure 16: Constellation for Kulturakademie MENA ................................................................ 109