Academic goal: To modify academic heritage denialism in a series of articles in prestigious international academic journals

Applied goal: To provide research-based fair multi-stakeholder recommendations to major creators and facilitators of cultural policies in the region

Academic outputs:
• Academic articles in major journals
• International conference presentations
• Curricular change
• Research focus change

Research-based recommendations for:
• Key international organizations
• Governments
• Minority organizations, political parties and SCOs
• Academic institutions

Academic outcomes:
• “Missing” stakeholders included (esp. minorities)
• “Non-offensive approach” to heritage stakeholders developed and discussed

Policy outcomes
• Knowledge-to-policy transfer
• World Bank doctrine of conflict management through development

Novelty – scholarly modifications; heritage diplomacy
• Contemporary anthropology dominated by “heritage denialism” of the critical heritage studies (anti-realist deconstruction)
• SICHWEB offers feasible alternative – non-offensive approach, by using socially legitimate ethnological paradigm to reach anthropological goals
• PI’s former projects dedicated to intra-state heritage diplomacy, this one seeks to apply the developed approach regionally and test it for use globally

Impact – scholarly and social, worldwide
• Knowledge-to-policy transfer in focus according to applied research-based IDENTITIES call
• scholarly – “return to ethnology” theoretical shift in anthropology as opposed to critical heritage studies
• social – stakeholder inclusion instead of heritage denialism probed as a means for addressing heritage conflicts worldwide
• Additional: Quest for sustainability in knowledge-to-policy transfer with long-term impact on education, culture and research sectors
• Larger impact – to offer solutions for using ICH in development processes worldwide thus putting Serbian social sciences and humanities on global map thanks to the Science fund