Pictures of Peace and Justice: Documentation, Evidence and Impact of Visual Material in International War Crimes Prosecution

和平与正义的图片：国际化战争罪行起诉中视觉材料的证据和影响本项目建立在之前三个项目的基础之上：一个由人权委员会资助的关于战争罪行的项目，一个由美国和平研究所资助的关于塞拉利昂问题特别法庭的项目，以及一个由ESRC资助的关于媒体和安全的项目，该项目产生了与战争罪行和过渡时期司法有关的动态图像的研究成果。该项目是一项试验性研究，目的是调查在建立国际化司法程序过程的三个阶段（即具有重要国际投入和背景的国际法院和国内程序）中视觉材料相对于其他类型材料的重要性。首先是这些司法机构成立的背景。第二是审判的进行。第三是法庭之外对和平与安全问题的影响。该项目将(i)确定、记录、批判性评估并创建已确定的三个阶段的视觉证据实例数据集；与司法、政策、媒体和军事安全从业人员进行半结构化访谈，以调查对三个阶段中每一阶段视觉材料相对重要性的认识、理解和判断；（三）开展焦点小组研究，根据第（一）和第（二）阶段，调查对特定视觉证据例子的信念、价值观和态度，包括产生程序和案例、在审判中用作证据，以及对冲突后社会和社区的影响。该试点项目将测试在这一领域进行研究的可行性和潜在意义，以便日后提出更大规模的研究资助建议。作为一个试点项目，其范围将限于调查这些问题，主要涉及二十世纪中期德国和日本的案例，在这些案例中将利用已有的研究和资源，以及二十世纪末和二十一世纪前南斯拉夫和塞拉利昂的案例，在这些案例中，首席研究员和联合研究员具有丰富的研究经验。

Pictures of Peace and Justice: Evidence and Impact of Visual Material in Internationalised War Crimes ProsecutionsThis project builds on three previous projects: an AHRC funded project on War Crimes, a US Institute for Peace funded project on the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and an ESRC project on media and security, which produced research findings on moving images in relation to war crimes and transitional justice. The project is a pilot study to investigate the importance of visual material vis a vis other types of material at three stages of the process of establishing internationalised judicial processes (i.e. international courts and domestic processes with both significant international input and context). The first of these is the context in which these judicial bodies are created. The second is the conduct of trials. The third is the impact beyond the courtroom on issues of peace and security. The project will (i) identify, document, critically appraise and create data sets of examples of visual evidence at each of the three stages identified; (ii) conduct semi-structured interviews with judicial, policy, media and military-security practitioners to investigate knowledge, understanding and judgement on the relative importance of visual material at each of the three stages; (iii) carry out focus group research to investigate beliefs, values and attitudes regarding particular examples of visual evidence, in light of stages (i) and (ii), including generating processes and cases, use as evidence in trials, and impact on post-conflict societies and communities. The pilot project will test the feasibility and potential significance of research in this area for a subsequent larger research funding proposal. Asa pilot project, the scope will be limited to investigation of these issues primarily in relation to the mid-twentieth century cases of Germany and Japan, where established research and resources will be exploited, and the late-twentieth and twenty-first century cases of the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, where the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator have extensive research experience.