Culture needs to be "mainstreamed" into peacebuilding activities - this was the leading recommendation from a meeting of culture and conflict resolution experts held in Brussels in November 2014.

The one-day seminar entitled Culture and Conflicts: The Case of Ukraine was a follow-on event from the Salzburg Global session Conflict Transformation through Culture: Peacebuilding and the Arts and a collaboration between Salzburg Global Seminar, More Europe and hosts, the European External Action Service (EEAS).

The seminar was supported by the EU and its Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP), with a view to providing a better understanding of the culture-conflict nexus through the lens of the conflict in Ukraine. The goals of the gathering were to discuss ways in which culture can contribute to or mitigate conflict and to formulate recommendations for policy-makers.