“Entrenchment” is a military term, but it increasingly describes how we speak, read, and think—even beyond the battlefield. Two epicenters of war in particular have come to dominate our political imagination: Ukraine, which has been fending off the Russian attack for nearly four years, and the Middle East, with its craters of lethality stretching across Gaza and the West Bank, Syria, and Lebanon.
 
The war diaries of Yevgenia Belorusets, now continued in Berlin Review’s freshly printed Reader 5, examine Ukraine’s war-torn society up close. They pose a seemingly impossible question: can one reject militarization and still resist the violence of the aggressor? Join us as Yevgenia discusses Ukraine’s fatal predicament, at the close of the war’s third year, with Berlin Review editor Tobias Haberkorn.
 
In Palestine and Israel, with a fragile ceasefire in place, it remains unclear how the region could move from a paradigm of killing to one of justice and peace. In our second panel, Carmen Herold of the Goethe-Institut in Exile will discuss paths out of genocidal violence with Palestinian-German legal scholar Nahed Samour and Israeli historian Adam Raz.
 
Yevgenia Belorusets, Adam Raz, Nahed Samour, Berlin Review Editors & Goethe-Institut in Exile Refusing Violence—How to Change the Paradigm When the Paradigm is Killing
Nov 27, 7–10 p.m.
Salon am Moritzplatz
Oranienstrasse 58
10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg

A talk organized by Berlin Review in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut in Exile. Free entrance; magazines on sale.