What are the links between the definition of cultural identities and the risk of short circuits that give rise to different types of violence? And what are the keys to questioning these links? The answers that this volume attempts to give start from the conviction that overcoming such short circuits must necessarily be confronted with the possibility of an interdisciplinary space, where different methodologies and perspectives can intersect, beyond the rigid fences that mark sectorial research. The volume in fact constitutes a sort of 'precipitate' and collection of scientific and dissemination contributions linked to the project Against Violence. Cultural identity for the construction of networks of countering and preventing radicalization, financed by the Friuli Venezia Giulia between 2020 and 2022 and born from the convergence of different sensitivities of both the humanities and the socio-political sphere of a working group of of the Departments of Humanities and Political and Social Sciences
of the University of Trieste. This was joined by a number of scholars from universities in Egypt, Serbia, Tunisia, Algeria, Pakistan, in the common interest in the humanities and social and political sciences of the University of Trieste.
Pakistan, in the common interest in the articulation between the themes of violence and cultural identity in associative living and in the short-circuits, unfortunately sometimes dramatic, that they can provoke.
