Creative Writing and Translation for Peace

“创意写作与翻译促进和平”是布里斯托尔大学与Bakwa合作的项目，Bakwa是雅温得的一个非营利性文学组织，成立于2011年，其使命是为喀麦隆文化和艺术的发展开辟新的空间。该项目针对喀麦隆的“以英语为母语的问题”，力求使喀麦隆青年作家、翻译家和教育工作者参与编写双语选集和学习指南，目的是培养跨国界的同理心和跨语言、跨文化、跨民族的团结。该项目扩大了通过AHRC/ESRC GCRF/PaCCS：关于冲突和国际发展的跨学科研究创新奖而产生的影响和研究创新，“乌干达青年和创造性写作：关于冲突与发展的新视角”。它力求将该项目的调查结果从冲突后的情况扩大到冲突仍在进行的情况；从单一语言方法转向多语言方法；并通过文学翻译建设教育和创造能力。“创造性写作和翻译促进和平”将对喀麦隆产生社会和文化影响，喀麦隆目前被列为官方发展援助受援国名单上的LMIC，为可持续发展目标4、10、16和17做出贡献。该项目的主要受益者将是喀麦隆的青年作家和翻译人员、喀麦隆的教育实践者、文学和文化活动，特别是对创造性写作和翻译感兴趣的活动，以及喀麦隆的政策制定者和第三部门组织。喀麦隆英语区和法语区的年轻人将通过创作关于冲突中喀麦隆日常生活的短篇小说来接受培训和指导。然后，这些故事将作为培训和指导新出现的文学翻译人员的基础，利用知识交流和与新成立的文学翻译咨询网络的合作。教育工作者和教育慈善机构将被邀请参加一系列焦点小组，根据这些成果开发双语教材，所有这些教材都将由Bakwa在一本新的喀麦隆小说双语选集中出版。该选集将分发给教育工作者、实践者和政策制定者，所有这些人都将被邀请参加在雅温得举行的盛大发布会。从这些活动中得出的见解，特别是关于在冲突局势中使用创造性方法作为促进和平与团结手段的见解，将在布里斯托尔政策部门的协助下编写一份简短报告。该项目的所有方面都是与主要利益攸关方合作开发的，特别是通过与Bakwa根据他们的组织需求共同设计和共同制作的过程。它建立在关于该国文学产业、培训提供和翻译倡议的现有范围和可行性调查的基础上，为期三个月，由布里斯托尔大学的GCRF启动奖提供资金。

'Creative Writing and Translation for Peace' is a collaboration between the University of Bristol and Bakwa, a Yaoundé-based literary non-profit organisation founded in 2011 with the mission to open new spaces for the promotion of Cameroonian culture and arts. Working against the context of the 'Anglophone problem' in Cameroon, it seeks to engage young Cameroonian writers, translators and educators in the production of a bilingual anthology and study guide, with the aim of forging cross-boundary empathy and inter-lingual, inter-cultural and inter-ethnic solidarities.This project extends impacts and research innovation developed through the AHRC/ESRC GCRF/PaCCS: Inter-Disciplinary Research Innovation Awards on Conflict and International Development funded project, 'Ugandan Youth and Creative Writing: New Perspectives on Conflict and Development'. It seeks to expand the findings of that project from a post-conflict situation to one in which conflict is ongoing; to move from monolingual to multilingual methods; and to build educational and creative capacity through literary translation. 'Creative Writing and Translation for Peace' will deliver social and cultural impact to Cameroon, currently listed as a LMIC on the DAC list of ODA recipients, contributing to SDGs 4, 10, 16 and 17. The project's key beneficiaries will be young writers and translators in Cameroon; educational practitioners based in Cameroon; literary and cultural initiatives, particularly those interested in creative writing and translation and policy makers and third sector organisations in Cameroon. Young people from Cameroon's Anglophone and Francophone regions will be trained and mentored through the process of producing short fictional stories about everyday life in Cameroon under conflict. These stories will then be used as the basis for training and mentoring emerging literary translators, leveraging knowledge exchange and collaboration with a newly-constituted literary translation advisory network. Educators and educational charities will be invited to a series of focus groups to develop bilingual teaching materials from these outputs, all of which will be published together by Bakwa in a new bilingual anthology of Cameroonian fiction. The anthology will be distributed to educators, practitioners and policy makers, all of whom will be invited to a grand launch in Yaoundé. The insights derived from these activities, particularly those which pertain to the use of creative methodologies as a means of promoting peace and solidarity in situations of conflict, will be published in a brief report that will be prepared with the assistance of Policy Bristol. All aspects of the project have been developed in collaboration with key stakeholders, particularly through a process of co-design and co-production with Bakwa, based on their organisational needs. It builds on extant scoping and feasibility surveys on literary industries, training provision and translation initiatives in the country, undertaken over a period of three months and funded via the University of Bristol's GCRF pump-priming award.