Mars or Pax? 'Rhenish' Transitions between War and Peace

In recent times, research has increasingly focused on the previously often neglected phenomena of transition from violence and war to peacemaking and peace consolidation. The thematic contexts and spatial and chronological contexts of such studies are extremely diverse, as are the terms typically used: Gray areas between peace and war, transformation processes, intermediate worlds, transitions, simultaneity phenomena, reconstruction and post-war periods, Cold War/Cold Peace, "neither/nor", "both/and" - all these paraphrases aim to question the premises of Cicero's classic quote "inter bellum et pacem medium nihil sit" and at the same time accentuate the ideal-typical construct character of "war" and "peace". The aim of the conference is to examine the various transitions from violence/war to peacemaking/consolidation across epochs in a specific area, namely the Rhenish region.