Art and Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community

虽然国际上已经投入了数十亿英镑用于冲突后的和解项目，主要涉及司法和创造性艺术方面，但没有对这种现象本身进行研究。迄今为止，只对特定的地方和项目进行了孤立的研究——开发计划署（西巴尔干）指出了这一点，该机构是此类工作的最大资助机构之一，它寻求“与和解有关的编纂知识体系”。因此，这个跨学科项目将创新性地调查冲突后和解，以产生第一个总体研究，以解决这一主要（从业者和学术）差距。它将通过将历史，冲突解决方法，艺术和创造性实践，以及定性和定量社会科学结合在三个方面来做到这一点：1。第一次对和解的思想和实践进行历史调查，包括英国内战或1945年后的欧洲等例子，以及对和解的思想（包括宗教和哲学）和实践的综合研究。2. 对过去在和解倡议中艺术和相关媒体的使用以及艺术实践和人工制品在解决社区间冲突、纪念、遗忘和宽恕方面发挥作用的潜力进行了讯问。这将包括对波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那冲突后研究中心管理的一系列利用视觉媒介促进族裔间对话与和解，特别是与青年团体对话与和解的倡议所产生的数据进行批判性评价。比较实证研究机构领域之间，跨国家和和解辩论的时间，应用创新的计算机辅助定量和定性分析来自巴尔干的多语言大文本数据。这将包括对RECOM的专门分析，RECOM是一个独特的，由当地推动的非政府组织和解倡议，涉及来自该地区所有国家和种族群体的5,000名民间社会成员，产生各种语言的大量数据，这些数据仍有待分析，并有可能为了解和解的发展提供信息。这三个部分将通过以下方式整合：项目讲习班；一本整合研究并提供理解和解的总体框架的合著综合书；以及一个共同而全面的线索，借鉴了申请人的特殊经验和过去的研究。该综合研究将提供与和解相关的重要知识体系，并为与英国外交部共同编写的和解活动的批判性评估提供框架文件。这项新颖而开创性的研究建立在以前资助的研究项目的基础上：ESRC和ahrc资助的关于视觉材料、冲突和战争罪行的项目（Gow； Gow和Kerr）；USIP和leverhulme资助的过渡司法项目（Kerr; Gow）；以及leverhulme资助的RECOM倡议研究（Kostovicova）。该研究已与从业人员进行了开发和讨论，包括开发计划署（西巴尔干），其中确定了缺乏理解和解的总体框架，并参与了项目的设计，人道主义法中心，贝尔格莱德和人道主义法中心（普里什蒂纳），PCRC（萨拉热窝）和FCO（政策股，研究分析师和英国联合国特派团），他们都致力于项目的设计。促进和评估。该项目还得到欧盟睦邻和扩大谈判总干事的支持，该干事将受益于更好地评估欧盟资助的项目，并得到北约副助理秘书长的支持和促进研究，并为可能产生的影响提供渠道。这项研究也应有利于受和解进程影响或参与和解进程的冲突后社区。

Although billions of pounds internationally have been invested in post-conflict reconciliation projects, primarily involving aspects of justice and the creative arts, there has been no study of this phenomenon as such. To date, only isolated studies of particular places and projects have been undertaken - a lack noted by UNDP (Western Balkans), one of the largest funders of such work, which seeks a 'codified body of knowledge pertaining to reconciliation.' This interdisciplinary project will therefore innovatively investigate post-conflict reconciliation to produce the first overarching study to address this major (practitioner and academic) gap. It will do so by combining history, conflict resolution methodologies, art and creative practice, and both qualitative and quantitative social sciences in three strands: 1. The first historical investigation of the idea and practice of reconciliation through time, involving examples, such as the English Civil War or post-1945 Europe, and also an integrated study of thought (including religious and philosophical) and practice on reconciliation. 2. Interrogation of both the past use of art and related media in reconciliation initiatives and the potential of artistic practices and artefacts to play a role in inter-communal conflict resolution, remembrance, forgetting and forgiving. This will include critical evaluation of data generated by a series of initiatives using visual media to stimulate inter-ethnic dialogue and reconciliation, particularly with youth groups, run by the Post Conflict Research Centre (PCRC) in Bosnia and Hercegovina. 3. Comparative empirical research between institutional domains, across countries and over time of debates on reconciliation, applying innovative computer-assisted quantitative and qualitative analysis to multi-language large text data from the Balkans. This will include a dedicated analysis of RECOM, a unique, locally-driven NGO initiative for reconciliation involving 5,000 civil society members from all countries and ethnic groups in the region, generating large data in various languages that remains both to be analysed and also its potential to inform understanding of reconciliation developed. The three strands will be integrated by: project workshops; a co-authored synthetic book integrating the research and offering an overarching framework of understanding reconciliation; and a common and comprehensive thread, drawing on the particular experience and past research of the applicants. The integrated research will provide a critical body of knowledge pertaining to reconciliation and a framework document for critical evaluation of reconciliation activity co-produced with the FCO.This novel and pioneering research builds on findings from previous funded research projects: ESRC- and AHRC-funded projects on visual material, conflict and war crimes (Gow; Gow and Kerr); USIP- and Leverhulme-funded projects on transitional justice (Kerr; Gow); and Leverhulme-funded research on the RECOM initiative (Kostovicova).The research has been developed and discussed with practitioners, including UNDP (Western Balkans) where the absence of an overarching framework for understanding reconciliation was identified and who have been involved in designing the project, the Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade and the Humanitarian Law Center (Pristina), the PCRC (Sarajevo), and the FCO (the Policy Unit, Research Analysts and the UK UN Mission), all of whom are committed to the project in terms of design, facilitation and evaluation. The project is also supported by the EU DG-Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, who would benefit by benefit by being better able to assess EU-funded projects and by the Deputy Assistant Secretary General, NATO who would support and facilitate the research and provide channels for possible impact. The research should also be of benefit to post-conflict communities subject to, or involved in, reconciliation processes.