PEACE FESTIVAL: Sharing Creative Methodologies for Unearthing Hidden War Stories for Peace

战争和冲突塑造了世界各地的社会。在过去的二十年里，拉丁美洲的真相与和解项目，以及它对过渡时期司法的尝试，经常被用来作为刚刚进入冲突后情景的国家的典范。然而，拉丁美洲学者的研究表明，边缘化民族的声音往往没有出现在官方的“真相”中。采用了创造性的方法，将妇女、土著人民、青年和农村居民的声音纳入关于战争史的讨论。为了促进包容性转型，我们从一个前提出发，即必须扩大与边缘化人群（土著、妇女、青年、农村）合作的地方倡议的声音。虽然现有的倡议很重要，但它们在大多数情况下仍然彼此孤立，妨碍了专门知识和知识的交流。因此，他们在为实现和解与建设和平而对战争叙述的斗争中产生影响的机会可能是有限的。本项目旨在为方法论、行动者和国家之间的对话创造一个空间，探讨方法论的挑战和可能性、颠覆已有的战争叙述的替代叙事以及保存这些非官方故事的策略，从而应对这些挑战。我们是一个跨学科的团队：PI是现代语言学院的拉丁美洲历史学家马修·布朗教授，CI是社会学、政治与国际研究学院的政治学家卡伦·塔克博士。他们是秘鲁研究员戈雅·威尔逊（Goya Wilson），他最近在大华银行教育研究生院获得了记忆博士学位；哥伦比亚研究员玛丽亚-特蕾莎·平托（Maria-Teresa Pinto）正在撰写一篇博士论文，题目是哥伦比亚和平进程中的历史记忆。我们的不同背景在这个项目中融合在一起，旨在承载哥伦比亚和平进程中正在发生的非凡时刻，将其与秘鲁的经验进行比较，并在全球分享经验和创新。我们将确定秘鲁和哥伦比亚的杰出项目，这些项目能够扩大边缘化人民的声音，并将他们的故事纳入历史记忆。例如：-哥伦比亚；1)Ruta Pacifica; 2) Hijas e hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio（女儿和儿子的身份和正义反对遗忘和沉默）……3)国家犯罪受害者全国运动。4)美国宇航局土著理事会协会Çxhãçxha。5)秘鲁圣何塞<s:1>和平村Apartadó （Comunidad de Paz de San jos<s:1> Apartadó）：1) Lugar de la Memoria, la tolerance and la Inclusión Social （LUM）。2) PQNSR （Movimiento Ciudadano Para Que No Se Repita）。3)阿亚库乔政治暴力受害者区域组织协调中心（反犯罪协调中心）。5)秘鲁h.i.j.（又名HIJXS）。我们将通过将在哥伦比亚卡塔赫纳德印第亚斯举行的为期三天的和平节，使这些项目的参与者进行对话。参加者将介绍他们自己的项目，了解其他互补项目，并讨论如何克服他们的工作和类似项目所面临的挑战。我们将分析和平节的讨论，并通过学术文章、传统新闻和广播媒体以及社交媒体传播我们的研究结果。从中吸取的经验教训将有助于哥伦比亚人和秘鲁人识别被边缘化的声音，并将他们的故事融入冲突后的社会。

Wars and conflicts shape societies worldwide. In the last two decades, Latin America's truth and reconciliation projects, and its attempts at transitional justice, have often been used as model for states just entering their own post-conflict scenarios. Latin Americanist scholarship has shown, however, that the voices of marginalized peoples have too often been absent from official 'truths'. Creative methodologies have been adopted in order to integrate the voices of women, indigenous people, young people and rural residents into discussions about the history of wars. In order to foster an inclusive transition, we start from the premise that it is essential to amplify voices from such local initiatives working with marginalized populations (indigenous, women, youth, rural). While existing initiatives have been important they have in most cases remained isolated from one another, impeding the exchange of know-how and knowledge. As a result, their chances of having an impact in the struggles over the narratives of the war in order to achieve reconciliation and peacebuilding, can be limited.This project proposes to tackle these challenges by creating a space for dialogue across methodologies, actors and countries regarding the methodological challenges and possibilities, the alternative narratives that subvert the already established accounts of the war and the strategies for the preservation of these non-official stories.We are an interdisciplinary team: the PI is Professor Matthew Brown, a historian of Latin America based in the School of Modern Languages, and the CI is Dr Karen Tucker a political scientist based in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies. The RAs are Goya Wilson, a Peruvian researcher who has recently completed a PhD on memory in the Graduate School of Education at UoB; and Maria-Teresa Pinto, a Colombian researcher who is working on a doctoral thesis - supervised by the CI - on historical memory in the Colombian peace process. Our diverse backgrounds are fused together in this project, which aims to bring to bear the extraordinary moment taking place right now in the Colombian peace process, to compare it with the Peruvian experience, and to share experiences and innovations globally.We will identify outstanding examples of projects in Peru and Colombia that have been able to amplify the voices of marginalized peoples, and to incorporate their stories into historical memory. Projects such as:-Colombia:1) Ruta Pacifica. 2) Hijas e hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio (Daughters & sons for Identity & Justice against Oblivion & Silence).. 3) National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE). 4) Association of Indigenous Councils Nasa Çxhãçxha. 5) Peace Village of San José de Apartadó (Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó) Peru:1) Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM). 2) Movimiento Ciudadano Para Que No Se Repita (PQNSR). 3) Coordinadora Regional de Organizaciones de Victimas de la Violencia Politica en Ayacucho (CORAVIP)4) Coordinadora Contra la Impunidad (CCI). 5) H.I.J.O.S. de Peru (a.k.a. HIJXS). We will bring participants from those projects into dialogue by means of a three-day Peace Festival, to be held in Cartagena de Indias, in Colombia. Participants will present their own project, learn about other complementary projects, and discuss how to overcome the challenges that face their work and the endeavours of projects like them.We will analyse the discussions from the Peace Festival, and disseminate our findings through academic articles, traditional press and broadcast media, and through social media. The lessons learned will help Colombians and Peruvians to identify marginalized voices, and to incorporate their stories into post-conflict societies.