RUI: Rights, Religion, and Community: Local and Global Discourses of Gender Violence

1990年代将性别暴力界定为侵犯人权行为的运动提出了有关法律文化框架的基本问题，以及关于权利的普遍论述与文化和宗教差异之间的关系。这个项目审查了夏威夷一个小镇的三种处理性别暴力的方法。 一种方法是基于权利的思想，并使用将婚内殴打定为犯罪的法律的定义;第二种方法是福音派基督教，基于婚姻和家庭的宗教概念，寻求通过神的帮助来维护婚姻和发展一种较少暴力的关系;第三个是夏威夷土著人解决问题的进程，它产生于土著人民努力恢复更多协商一致、以社区为基础的解决冲突形式。 这些办法代表了以民主和法治、宗教信仰和文化独特的社区为基础的相互竞争的社会正义范式。 研究人员将研究不同范式中隐含的人员和责任类别，以及差异与关于性别暴力和人权的全球辩论的关系。 运用民族志方法的深入访谈，以及法律的诉讼的案例分析，收集文件和培训材料，并通过参与观察，研究者将推进我们的理解，往往是对立的，有时是相互构成的性质，这三种范式的社会正义。

The 1990s movement to define gender violence as a human rights violation raises basic questions about the cultural frame of the law, and the relationship between universal discourses of rights and cultural and religious difference. This project examines three approaches to gender violence in a small town in Hawaii. One approach is based on the idea of rights and the use of the legal definition of battering within marriage as a crime; the second, evangelical Christian, is based on the religious conception of marriage and the family and seeks to preserve the marriage and develop a less violent relationship through divine assistance; the third, a Native Hawaiian problem-solving process, grows out of efforts to recuperate more consensual, community-grounded forms of conflict resolution by indigenous peoples. These approaches represent competing paradigms of social justice, based on democracy and the rule of law, on religious faith, and on culturally distinct communities. The researcher will study the implicit categories of persons and responsibilities involved in the different paradigms, and the relation of differences to global debates about gender violence and human rights. Using ethnographic methods of in-depth interviews as well as case analysis of legal proceedings, collect documents and training materials and through participant observation, the researcher will advance our understanding of the often antagonistic, sometimes mutually constituted nature of these three paradigms of social justice.