Voices of War and Peace - Core Centre Continuation Proposal

记住，就像忘记一样，永远是一种政治行为。第一次世界大战是一场全球性的冲突，在当地留下了印记。城市和农村的体验不同吗？在战争期间和战后，士兵和平民之间的关系如何？它是否塑造了个人和社区的身份？它对同时代的人有不同的意义吗？人们一致认为死者应该被纪念和记住，但对于如何理解牺牲的例子，以及从纪念行为中获得的意义和经验，人们的意见不太一致。这些含义是如何随着时间的推移而变化的？今天人们是如何理解它的？“过去是一个外国：他们在那里做不同的事情”这句话是不是老生常谈？当然，2016年的英国与1914年的英国是一个非常不同的国家，被Parekh（2000）描述为“社区的社区”。年轻人对城市和乡村风景中当地的死者纪念碑和老一辈以他们为中心组织的纪念活动有什么意义？对于在这样一个社会中长大的年轻人来说，这场战争意味着什么？在这个社会中，人们可以通过智能手机即时获得冲突的现场报道，媒体会即时报道伤亡、破坏和难民的故事。年轻人将如何把过去与他们的现在和未来联系起来？随着第一次世界大战从记忆中消失，成为历史，他们将经历什么样的纪念记录，并在2019年之后留给未来的历史学家反思？这些问题所包含的议题形成并将继续形成《战争与和平之声：大战及其遗产》项目的框架。致力于跨学科研究，对社区参与研究的结构性承诺和“理解使命”的专业承诺，以调查，分析，理解，批评和判断，从而将爱德华·赛义德的“解释社区”理念转化为实践（赛义德2003年），声音中心已经接触到多个社区和公众，地方和国家，通过对话探索关于记忆，记忆和纪念的问题。该中心的存在是为了响应社区在建立研究技能和支持社区推动的研究议程方面的支持要求；它的存在是为了与其他AHRC资助的参与中心、遗产彩票基金、百年伙伴关系以及艺术和遗产组织合作，探索第一次世界大战的公共历史和学术历史之间的联系。分享关于冲突对性别关系的影响的知识，专业知识和资源在战争期间和战后的家庭前线，关于个人和家庭身份的精神因素，关于家庭关系以及在冲突，损失和流离失所的时代长大的孩子的情况，在全球关系方面，“和平之声”项目将为社区/学院关系留下自己的遗产，包括共同设计和共同生产研究的能力，对记忆与遗忘之间复杂关系的理解，以及继续“通过过去思考”的愿望。

Remembering, just like forgetting, is always a political act. The First World War was a global conflict which left its mark on the local. Was it experienced differently in urban and rural areas? What were the relationships between soldiers and civilians during and after the war? Did it shape individual and community identities? Did it have different meanings for contemporaries? There was a consensus that the dead were to be commemorated and remembered, but there was less agreement over how the example of sacrifice was to be understood and the meanings to be attributed to and experiences to be drawn from acts of commemoration. How have these meanings changed over time? How is it being understood today? Is it a truism that 'the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'? Certainly, Britain in 2016 is a very different country to that of 1914 and has been described by Parekh (2000) as 'a community of communities.' What sense are young people making of the local memorials to the dead which sit in the urban and rural landscapes and the acts of commemoration organised by an older generation which centre upon them? What meaning does the war have for young people who have grown up in a society where live reports of conflict are instantly available on a smartphone and where stories of casualties, destruction and refugees are instantly reported in the media? How will young people connect this past with their present and their future? As the First World War moves out of memory into history, what will be the record of commemoration that they will have experienced and will be left after 2019 for future historians to reflect upon? The issues embedded in these questions formed, and continue to form, the framework of the Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy project. Committed to cross-disciplinary research, structural commitment to community engagement with research and professional commitment 'in a mission of understanding' to investigate, analyse, apprehend, criticize and judge and thereby translate Edward Said's idea of 'communities of interpretation' into practice (Said 2003) the Voices' Centre has reached out to multiple communities and publics, local and national, to explore through dialogue issues around memory, remembering and commemoration. The Centre exists to respond to community requests for support in terms of building research skills and in supporting community driven research agenda; and it exists to work in partnership with the other AHRC funded Engagement Centres, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Centenary Partnership, and arts and heritage organisations in exploring the connections between public and academic histories of the First World War. Sharing knowledge, expertise and resources about the impact of conflict on gender relations on the home front during and after the war, on the spiritual elements of personal and family identity, on family relationships and what it was to be a child growing up in an age of conflict, loss and displacement, and on global relationships in the decades that followed the Peace the Voices project will leave its own legacy for community/academy relations in terms of the capacity for the co-design and coproduction of research, an understanding of the complicated relationship between remembering and forgetting and a desire to continue to 'think forward through the past'.