Cross-border cooperation as a reconciliation tool: Example from the East Czech-Polish borders

Hans, Böhm; Drápela, Emil

doi:10.4324/9781351043731-6

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“…4. The role in post-conflict reconciliation: many of the border regions in the EU are places of former conflicts, as is also the case in the east of the Czech-Polish border (Böhm and Drápela, 2017). The CBC is a tool which helps to mitigate the consequences of those conflicts, which has been demonstrated on the French-German or German-Dutch border (Klatt and Wassenberg, 2017); and 5.…”

Section: Border Studies As a Specific Intersection Of Several Social Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These prospects might result in studying re-bordering rather than de-bordering of this territory in the near future. This could bring a relatively new view on Czech-Polish CBC, as its scholarship has up to now predominantly focused on debordering (Pásztó et al, 2019;Böhm and Drápela, 2017;Böhm and Opioła, 2019). Scholars have identified a very high number of local cross-border connections between municipalities (Furmankiewicz, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on Czech-Polish cross-border cooperation: From debordering to re-bordering?

Hans

2021

Moravian Geographical Reports

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought many changes to social behaviours in Europe. One of its major consequences was the temporary closure of borders, which was introduced as a measure to prevent the uncontrolled pandemic spreading and involved internal Schengen borders. This has had a major impact in the way in which cross-border cooperation has been conducted in Europe, including the Czech-Polish borderland, as it dramatically restrained all flows across borders. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of the pandemic on five roles of cross-border cooperation: 1) as a multi-level governance form; 2) as a regional development tool; 3) as a para-diplomacy form; 4) as a post-conflict reconciliation tool; and 5) as Europe-building. We argue that the impacts of the pandemic complicated regional development and the Europe-building role of cross-border cooperation in the Czech-Polish borderland. The article envisages re-bordering processes also in the Czech-Polish borderland, but with important exceptions in the regions with a high level of cross-border integration, mainly in the Euroregion Těšínské Slezsko/Śląsk Cieszyński. The paper also calls for the elaboration of the guidelines for possible repeated (Schengen) border closures and proposes modifications of the INTERREG microprojects schemes, to keep them attractive also in times of expected cuts in public finances.

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Section: Border Studies As a Specific Intersection Of Several Social Sciencesmentioning

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The influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on Czech-Polish cross-border cooperation: From debordering to re-bordering?

Hans

2021

Moravian Geographical Reports

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“…The issues of regional development and cross-border cooperation have been studied by many scholars in different countries (Böhm & Drapela 2017;Joenniemi & Janczak 2017;Klatt 2016;Sohn, Reitel & Walther 2009;Wassenberg et al 2015) and have recently become the subject of interest for Ukrainian researchers. Regional and, in particular, cross-border cooperation is an area of scientific interest for such Ukrainian scholars as: E. Kish, N. Mikula, Z. Varnalii, M. Dolishnii, I. Artemov, V. Tolkanov, S. Maksymenko, S. Davydenko, K. Horokhovska, Y. Sotnikov, I. Kravchenko, etc.…”

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The Strategic Role Of the Local Communities in The Development Of Cross-Border Cooperation Between Ukraine And The EU (on the example of the Transcarpathian Region)

Melehanych¹

2020

Pogran. Pol. Borderl. Stud

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This article is devoted to the study of the implementation of cross-border cooperation between Ukraine and EU countries. Transcarpathia was chosen as the region for the study because it is here that Ukraine is bordering with four European states. The most important role in the implementation of cross-border programs belongs to the communities in the field provided by the local self-government bodies. It is they who have the relevant knowledge and experience to successfully implement projects and programs from different funding sources targeted for the development of cross-border regions. The successful development and success of Ukraine’s border territories largely depend on the successful mobilization and strategic use of funds.

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“…Cross-border cooperation (CBC) has helped to eliminate the consequences of these conflicts, and it has contributed to understanding the border as a (development) opportunity (Decoville et al 2013). Divided towns are often the places of former conflict, where the CBC has helped to eliminate the negative barrier effect of the border (Böhm and Drápela 2017).…”

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“…They were divided after an armed conflict between Czechoslovakia and Poland after the end of World War I. After an international arbitrage, the town and the whole region were divided, and the Olza River became a national border (Böhm and Drápela 2017). Mainly Poles felt (and some still do) that this division was unfair because most of the inhabitants of the territory obtained by Czechoslovakia have self-identified as Poles.…”

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Challenges of Pandemic-Related Border Closures for Everyday Lives of Poles and Czechs in the Divided Town of Cieszyn/Český Těšín: Integrated Functional Space or Reemergence of Animosities?

Hans

2022

Nationalities Papers

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The article asks whether the divided town Cieszyn-Český Těšín can be considered a joint “living space” in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. It evaluates the impact of the pandemic on various aspects of the daily lives of the inhabitants and institutions of both parts of this divided town. Three main dimensions of cross-border integration were studied: cross-border flows, cross-border structures/institutions, and the feeling of togetherness, which represents an ideational dimension of cross-border integration. The research was based on studying narratives covering border closures in the divided town, the analysis of cross-borderness of existing Facebook groups acting in both parts of the divided town, and the results of an extensive questionnaire-based survey among its inhabitants. The border closures restricted cross-border flows, which hit cross-border commuters and damaged the quality of this divided town as a living place because it introduced uncertainty. However, the health crisis also showed the high level of mutual interconnections between the local inhabitants and a functional cross-border civic society. The local people and politicians tend to perceive the divided town as a joint living space. The level of cross-border integration highly exceeds the one usual in the “new EU.”

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Cross-border cooperation as a reconciliation tool: Example from the East Czech-Polish borders

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The influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on Czech-Polish cross-border cooperation: From debordering to re-bordering?

The influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on Czech-Polish cross-border cooperation: From debordering to re-bordering?

The Strategic Role Of the Local Communities in The Development Of Cross-Border Cooperation Between Ukraine And The EU (on the example of the Transcarpathian Region)

Challenges of Pandemic-Related Border Closures for Everyday Lives of Poles and Czechs in the Divided Town of Cieszyn/Český Těšín: Integrated Functional Space or Reemergence of Animosities?

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