The booklet, entitled “ Cultural Relief Prospects in Humanitarian Response Programs in Conflict-Stricken Countries, ” focuses on some ideas and activities that could be useful for cultural work and humanitarian response in conflict countries if cultural relief is integrated into the humanitarian response, what cultural and artistic tools can be invested in cultural relief, what cultural grants and funding are available through donors or can be provided by humanitarian response partners, and what ideas, activities, and actions can be worked on to make cultural relief an integral part of the humanitarian relief system.

The book talks in the first chapter on the links between cultural relief and humanitarian response programs, the second chapter discusses cultural and artistic tools that can be invested in cultural relief, while the third chapter focuses on cultural and artistic grants and funding that can be invested in cultural relief, and the fourth chapter discusses building cultural and artistic capacities that can be invested in cultural relief.

Chapter Five focuses on residencies, fellowships, and creative cultural and artistic exchanges that can be invested in cultural relief. Chapter Six discusses issues of supporting cultural institutions and building their creative, cultural, and artistic capacities that can be invested in cultural relief. Chapter Seven discusses issues of supporting artists, creators, and community residents through creative, cultural, and artistic methods that can be invested in cultural relief.

Chapter Eight discusses the topics of supporting cultural events through creative, cultural and artistic methods that can be invested in cultural relief, including competitions and awards, exhibitions, conferences, workshops and seminars, buying and selling creativity, cultural and creative networking, cultural policies, cultural rights and cultural relief, cultural monitoring, cultural protection, creative spaces, platforms and spaces. Chapter Nine discusses creative positions that can be invested in cultural relief, while Chapter Ten discusses the concept of recovery in cultural relief.

All of the above will be discussed within humanitarian response programs in countries suffering from conflicts.