1 REFLECTIONS ON DEBATES ABOUT “ACADEMIES of SOLIDARITY”: THE PRACTISES OF “DERSİM ACADEMY of SOLIDARITY” Ahmet Kerim Gültekin  “Politically I’m an anarchist. I hate from states, rules and custody. I’ve no toleration to see animals caged. People must be free and so do love…” Şerdıl Cengiz   Introduction: What Should a Lecturer Have Done About the War in Turkey? According to mainstream social scientific approaches, “War” and “Peace” have usually been accepted as a common way of establishing complex relations against nature and other members of its own species for Homo sapiens. The aim could be even to take advantage of the environment for economic benefits or just getting in contact with “other” societies but war has always been a destructive phenomenon from which or whose results humans (or all living creatures) cannot escape. However, at this point, I think we should distinguish between the types of war before and after the appearance of the state (as a social, political and military organization), because there have always been very different kinds of social-political organizations (from tribes to states) in human history, but in general, act of war had gained its major property about demolishing since the states had been showed up. For example if we look at ethnographic data on societies which have no social organization like a state, we usually see the act of war depends on small scale territorial claims or defences on natural sources. War simply emerges from survival ecological basis. Due to the population of these kinds of stateless societies like hunter- gatherers, its destructive effects could include even no violence but ritualistic behaviour. On the other hand, as we can see and experience in today’s world, war between states are able to create massive disasters for human beings and the nature. Massacres, Holocaust, forced migrations, torture, wiping out ecological niches; poverty, environmental disasters and humiliation are the best known consequences of war which we learn in history lessons. In fact, it is a catastrophe what we forced to live in.  Ethnologist. Ph.D. I was dismissed by decree law 679 from Munzur University (Tunceli-TURKEY) Sociology Department while I was teaching courses on culture, identity and religion. I also would like to thank to Off-University collective. In preparing this paper in English, I mostly used the subtitles which they had written for my speech on “Tough Questions About Peace” symposium. I also would like to thank to Erdoğan Boz for reviewing.  These were the last words of a student of Munzur University before he was shot from head during a demonstration in Diyarbakır which demanded stopping violation against civil folk in Sur province. I want to dedicate this paper to his memory and all the people from both sides who lost their lives during street clashes in the past years in Turkey.