On March 15, 2024, the Research Center for Postwar and Violence co-founded the research alliance War and Society: Central and Eastern Europe together with CERCEC (EHESS, Paris) and the Center for Urban History in Lviv. The alliance brings historians and sociologists from different scholarly traditions together around a shared focus on the experience of war in Central and Eastern Europe. Its aim is to conduct collective research on war as a process of movement: of bodies, bonds, institutions, goods, ideas, legacies and possible futures. Cooperation among the three institutions rests on shared scholarly principles:

• The importance of interdisciplinary, transnational and multilingual research
• An understanding of the war phenomenon through the prism of social actors, their experiences, practices and subjectivities
• A focus on the temporalities of war, and an ambition to think of war as an event unfolding over variable time spans
• A commitment to ambitious and ethical empirical research

The research alliance is a place for the emergence and structuring of new scientific dynamics born of the transformations linked to the Russian-Ukrainian war. In particular, it encourages the circulation of researchers, starting with students and young researchers, in order to provide a European framework for research and research training around a common scientific project.