Children as Legacies of War: An Exploratory Study of Humanitarian Actors as Agents of Change

作为战争遗产的儿童：作为变革推动者的人道主义行动者的探索性研究

• 批准号: 0432844
• 负责人: Charli Carpenter
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-10-01 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0432844&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Children; Legacies; War; Exploratory; Study

HSD-0432844Charli CarpenterUniversity of PittsburghThe PI will support an exploratory project on the humanitarian response to children born of mass rape and forced pregnancy in conflict situations. The research analyzes the transformative processes triggered by the use of forced pregnancy campaigns in ethnic warfare and the role human rights advocates in post-conflict situations can play in mitigating negative socio-cultural reactions to children born of mass rape. The initial project includes an interdisciplinary workshop and a resulting volume of essays, which is designed to initiate comparative research on the ways in which different societies respond to children born as a result of wartime rape. NSF funding will allow participation in the project by non-North American scholars who would otherwise be unable to travel to the workshop. Secondly, the PI will conduct focus groups with humanitarian practitioners in New York, Geneva and Nairobi in order to gather data on the state of and gaps in existing knowledge about the conditions under which norm advocacy efforts in post-conflict situations impact socio-cultural reactions to mass rape survivors and their children This research will increase our understanding of the relationship between gender, ethnicity, violence and group identity. A burgeoning literature has identified the ways in which gender violence in armed conflict relates to broader socio-political upheavals, but very little has been written on the role played by children born of such violence, or ways in which human communities adapt to an influx of such children after armed conflict. The study's results will be disseminated through an edited volume, a policy paper and conference presentations and has the potential to impact scholarship on identity, aggression and inter-ethnic violence, as well as policy initiatives to mitigate the impact of these dynamics on human groups after conflict. Moreover, by actively involving scholars and practitioners from non-Western contexts in the theory-building and research enterprise, the project will broaden the participation of geographically under-represented groups and broaden our insights about the complexity of these social dynamics.

HSD-0432844查理·卡彭特（Charli Carpenter）汉堡大学PI将支持一个关于对冲突局势中大规模强奸和强迫怀孕所生儿童的人道主义反应的探索性项目。该研究分析了在种族战争中使用强迫怀孕运动所引发的变革过程，以及人权倡导者在冲突后局势中在减轻对大规模强奸所生儿童的负面社会文化反应方面可以发挥的作用。 最初的项目包括一个跨学科讲习班和由此产生的论文集，旨在就不同社会对战时强奸所生儿童的反应方式开展比较研究。国家科学基金会的资助将使非北美学者能够参加该项目，否则他们将无法前往讲习班。 第二，PI将与纽约、日内瓦和内罗毕的人道主义工作者进行重点小组讨论，以收集关于冲突后局势中规范倡导工作影响对大规模强奸幸存者及其子女的社会文化反应的现有知识的现状和差距的数据。越来越多的文献指出了武装冲突中的性别暴力与更广泛的社会政治动荡之间的关系，但很少有文献论述这种暴力所生儿童所起的作用，或人类社区如何适应武装冲突后这类儿童的涌入。研究结果将通过编辑成册、一份政策文件和会议发言加以传播，并有可能影响关于身份、侵略和族裔间暴力的学术研究，以及减轻这些动态对冲突后人类群体影响的政策举措。此外，通过积极吸引非西方背景的学者和从业人员参与理论建设和研究事业，该项目将扩大地域代表性不足的群体的参与，并扩大我们对这些社会动态复杂性的见解。