Doctoral Dissertation Research: Beyond Sectarianism? Violence After Peace Accords in Belfast, Northern Ireland

博士论文研究：超越宗派主义？

• 批准号: 0613131
• 负责人: Jane Schneider
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0613131&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Beyond; Sectarianism

Under the supervision of Dr. Jane Schneider, graduate student Molly Hurley Dupret will examine the possibility that even after the landmark 1998 Good Friday peace agreement, old communal divisions in Belfast, Northern Ireland, will continue and new ones may emerge. The research will focus on Belfast's interfaces, boundaries that demarcate territory. These dividing lines may be physical markers, such as the infamous Peace Line that separates Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods in west Belfast, but they can also be more subtlet, invisible boundaries that are learned through one's own navigations or the stories of friends, relatives and the media. The researcher will interview professional and non-professional boundary navigators, including police officers, taxi drivers, and residents of one neighborhood that has no built interfaces but nevertheless has numerous invisible dividing lines. The interview data will be used to delineat divisions and to understand their effects on people's daily lives, particularly the routes that they feel safe traveling. In addition to interviewing these navigators, the researcher will also gather their hand-drawn mental or cognitive maps, a useful technique of cognitive spatial research; and will use these maps to engage respondents in disucssion of routes they commonly do or do not follow. It is anticipated that this project will not only contribute to academic debates about mental maps and cognitive theory, but will also have significant implications for Belfast policy discussions regarding interfaces, discussions that, until recently, solely focused on the built interface walls and largely ignored less obvious boundaries. Finally, this project has the potential to shed light on post-peace agreement in other contexts where division continues despite the cessation of warfare.

在简·施奈德博士的指导下，研究生莫莉·赫尔利·杜普雷特将研究这样一种可能性：即使在1998年具有里程碑意义的耶稣受难日和平协议之后，北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特的旧社区分歧仍将继续，新的社区分歧可能会出现。这项研究将集中在贝尔法斯特的边界，即划分领土的边界。这些分界线可能是有形的分界线，比如分隔贝尔法斯特西部新教和天主教社区的臭名昭著的和平线，但它们也可以是更微妙的无形边界，可以通过自己的导航或朋友、亲戚和媒体的故事来了解。研究人员将采访专业和非专业的边界导航员，包括警察、出租车司机和一个社区的居民，该社区没有内置界面，但仍有许多看不见的分界线。采访数据将被用来划分分歧，并了解它们对人们日常生活的影响，特别是他们认为安全的旅行路线。除了采访这些导航员，研究人员还将收集他们手绘的心理或认知地图，这是一种有用的认知空间研究技术；并将使用这些地图让受访者讨论他们通常会走或不会走的路线。预计这个项目不仅将有助于关于心理地图和认知理论的学术辩论，而且还将对贝尔法斯特关于界面的政策讨论产生重大影响，直到最近，这些讨论还只专注于建造的界面墙，基本上忽略了不太明显的边界。最后，该项目有可能在其他情况下阐明和平协议后的情况，在这些情况下，尽管战争停止，分裂仍在继续。