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Disputes between states and conflicts regarding the past are among the key sources of serious international rows. Such controversies may be defined as a situation of political and social stress connected with active, serious disparities of judgments referring to the common past of the disputing sides, including such disputes as those regarding borders, past armed conflicts, occupation, annexation, war crimes and crimes against humanity, oppression, discrimination, responsibility for international crises and humanitarian disasters, disputes on cultural legacy and achievements, among others. This volume consists of papers presented at the international conference "History as a tool of contemporary international conflicts" organized in 2018 by the Pedagogical University of Krakow.Following are essays analyzing various cases of such use and abuse of the past in contemporary international politics, reflection on ways to identify and classify them, as well as on possible ways to prevent such instrumentalisation, and when prevention is no longer possible, to remove their effects. The publication is addressed not only to historians and political scientists interested in the politics of remembrance and the politics of remembrance, but also to all those who are aware of the growing importance of the instrumental use of history in contemporary international conflicts.