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2025 Vol.2 No.2


Cultural Conflict and Integration

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8 articles
ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 30 August 2025

Navigating Cultural Tensions: Dynamic Integration of Rural-Urban Art Identities in Chinese Art Education

Yaoyao Ding, Yuntao Zou

Cultural Conflict and Integration · 1-17 · 10.55121/cci.v2i2.647

This paper explores the cultural adaptation process of rural art students in China after passing the college entrance examination and entering urban art academies. The authors note that traditional cultural theories cannot fully explain the unique challenges faced by this group, such as value conflicts and conceptual differences

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 10 September 2025

Rescripting Psychic Pathologies: CRISPR-Cas9’s Biochemical Reconfiguration of Mental Health in Cultural and Bioethical Contexts of Post-2000 Speculative Fiction and Autobiographical Narratives

Hamed Jamalpour, Manzar Feiz, Zahra Jamalpour, Golbarg Darvishian Kermanshahi, Fateme Yari

Cultural Conflict and Integration · 18–35 · 10.55121/cci.v2i2.532

CRISPR-Cas9’s potential to reconfigure the neurogenomic underpinnings of mental health disorders, such as depression, schizophrenia, and PTSD, heralds a biochemical revolution in psychic pathology, yet it unfolds amid profound cultural conflicts and aspirations for integration. This descriptive study explores how post-2000 specu

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 30 September 2025

The “Invisible Wall” of Germany

Mirko Ivanović

Cultural Conflict and Integration · 36–47 · 10.55121/cci.v2i2.545

In February 2025, parliamentary elections were held in Germany, the results of which showed an extraordinary division of the electorate of East and West Germany, along the former state border between East and West Germany. These elections showed not only the geopolitical division of Germany but also the deep cultural, economic,

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 16 October 2025

Threshold Sites of Encounter: Dialogic (Place) Making to Enable Cross-Cultural Community Development—Lessons from Tuti Island, Khartoum, Sudan

Robert Brown, Ioana Popovici

Cultural Conflict and Integration · 48-69 · 10.55121/cci.v2i2.690

This text explores a possibility for extending our thinking on enacting dialogical placemaking and its potential to contribute to cross-cultural exchange through co-joining making and place as threshold sites of encounter. Advancing our knowledge and practice of dialogical placemaking and cross-cultural interaction is significan

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 29 October 2025

Rumi and Intercultural Dialogue: The Role of Rumi's Teachings in Resolving Cultural Conflicts

Zahra Ahmadi, Mohammadreza Dehshiri

Cultural Conflict and Integration · 70-81 · 10.55121/cci.v2i2.836

Cultural conflicts constitute a major challenge in contemporary multicultural societies, intensified by globalization, migration, and digital connectivity. Yet, scholarship has not systematically examined how Rumi’s mystical concepts may inform modern frameworks of intercultural dialogue and conflict transformation. This study e

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 7 November 2025

Not Just a Place: Emotional Belonging and Class Distinction in Nişantaşı-Istanbul

Zeynep Ceylan Gezer Çatalbaş, Ipek Akpinar

Cultural Conflict and Integration · 82-98 · 10.55121/cci.v2i2.841

This paper explores how residents of the historic Nişantaşı neighborhood in Istanbul have experienced, remembered, and narrated the area throughout Turkey’s modern urban history. Drawing on in-depth interviews and archival materials from newspapers and magazines, it interprets these sources as subjective memory rather than objec

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 11 November 2025

Islam, Cultural Differences, and Intercultural Communication

Muhammad Taqiyuddin, Samih Salah Mohammed

Cultural Conflict and Integration · 99-107 · 10.55121/cci.v2i2.516

This paper explores the intricate relationship between Islam, cultural diversity, and intercultural communication in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Islam, practiced by over 1.9 billion people worldwide, is not a monolithic culture but a religion deeply embedded in a variety of cultural settings across different

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 1 December 2025

Turbulence, Conflict, and Three Scenarios of Global Future

Nikolai Rozov

Cultural Conflict and Integration · 108-120 · 10.55121/cci.v2i2.565

The article expands the concept of turbulence through a combination of wars and revolutionary waves. The multipolarity of the modern world does not exclude hegemony with leadership, as well as the formation of coalitions, which in case of aggravation of conflicts can return the era of bipolarity. The centers of gravity are usual

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