We live in times of multiple crises and uncertainties, at least that is the tenor of current political and scientific discourse. These discursive crisis scenarios are sometimes contrasted with futures that address cultures of cohesion and community. Although such approaches offer orientation, they are not sufficient to adequately understand the cultural dimensions of current crisis and conflict dynamics. The workshop will not only look at the cultural-symbolic level of conflict and crisis phenomena, but also at how diagnoses of conflict and crisis and, accordingly, how dealing with conflicts contribute to the confirmation, problematization and generation of symbolic orders.