Why is my Curriculum White? No Democratization without Decolonization! In line with global movements such as Black Lives Matter, students in the Netherlands also ask critical questions about the epistemological foundations of their education. They find the curriculum too one-sidedly based on Western knowledge. They believe that this selective knowledge does not adequately prepare them for life in a dynamic pluralist and more just society. In this project, students and staff discover in dialogues and workshops how they can work together as critical cooperatives, rather than as distrustful antagonists, in order to productively translate difficult issues into concrete curriculum revisions.

Nature & Us: An Ecocentric Approach to Early Modern Landscape Painting at Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar Will Alkmaar soon be under water? Can this be prevented by thinking differently about nature? This project investigates landscape painting from the collection of Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar. Can we see from these paintings how people thought about nature? Possibly this research offers inspiration and guidance.

War creates destruction. However, in Syria, the war has also positively changed gender roles. Women now head households and take leading roles in public life. This project asks how this major change can be sustained. How can civil society in Syria transform this initial spark into lasting gender social justice?

Providing healthcare in conflict settings is a morally complex endeavour. Classical forms of ethics suggest that general principles, such as respecting autonomy, can offer guidance. Yet, principle-based ethics fails to adequately address power inequalities, experiences of moral distress, and conflict dynamics. As a young, innovative discipline, care ethics starts normative reflection with studying actual care practices and the moral challenges people experience. This project examines the potential of care ethics to research and normatively reflect on how healthcare workers in conflict settings negotiate the moral complexity in their work, and the capacity of this approach to provide context-sensitive moral guidance.

Contextual therapy is based on the assumption that the quality of relationships is rooted in the balance of fairness in reciprocal care. An investigation into the foundational theory, the therapy practice and the experiences of clients sheds light on the applicability and the transferability.