GCRF Development Award on Protection from Enduring and Overlapping Forms of Violence

GCRF 保护免受持久和重叠形式暴力的发展奖

• 批准号: AH/T005378/1
• 负责人: Kirsten McConnachie
• 金额: $ 6.97万
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT005378%2F1
• 关键词: GCRF; Development; Award; Protection; Enduring

This Development Award establishes the preliminary work for a Network on Protection from Enduring and Overlapping Forms of Violence. Humanitarian protection is often associated with particular situations of crisis. However, the vulnerability of specific individuals and groups is also rooted in enduring and multiple forms of conflict and violence. The Protection Network therefore starts with the recognition that there is a need to broaden our conceptual and empirical understanding of protection. In doing so, it examines the challenges of protecting vulnerable people from the perspective of those in need of protection rather than formal organisations, frameworks and norms. The proposed Protection Network is a partnership between the University of Edinburgh, Open University of Sri Lanka, Law and Society Trust, USIU-Africa, Aalborg University and the University of East Anglia and will extend out to include other researchers and practitioners interested in the complex protection needs of vulnerable populations. Conceptualising protection from the bottom up allows us to appreciate the multiple forms that protection needs take, as they are embedded in social, economic and political contexts. Focusing on people rather than events or normative frames means we can see crisis as non-exceptional, and break with the divide between prevention and response. Doing so also helps us move beyond the silos that have shaped humanitarian interventions, to learn across distinct research and policy domains and to support new communities of practice. It allows us to understand the multiple ways in which people seek to protect themselves from violence - which may, for example, relate to livelihoods as much as legal entitlements - whilst acknowledging that these practices might themselves be contradictory, counter-productive and exclusionary. Either way, starting with on the ground protection needs and practices is essential if we are to begin to find solutions to affirming protective rights and to develop interventions that are both more responsive and more effective.Kenya and Sri Lanka will act as central hubs for the Protection Network as they are sites of enduring crisis in their own right and because they are regional access points for South and Southeast Asia and East Africa. The two separate hubs will also create opportunities for new forms of South to South collaboration and learning. Both countries are marked by prolonged forms of state and non-state violence, natural disasters and displacement. At the same time, both countries have vibrant humanitarian and human rights communities and have been the site of diverse forms of international intervention. The Protection Network will produce holistic and actionable knowledge that will be fed into more established forms of expertise. By establishing a research agenda that is rooted in lived realities rather than policy categories, the Network will bridge areas including human rights, humanitarianism and international development, forced migration studies, security and gender studies. This Development Project advances the objectives of the Protection Network by consulting with stakeholder and beneficiary communities, beginning a multi-sector and multi-disciplinary conversation about the meaning of protection and the scope of protection activities in Kenya and Sri Lanka and creating opportunities for sustained conversation on these topics among the Network project team.

该发展奖为防止持久和重叠形式暴力网络奠定了初步工作基础。人道主义保护往往与特定的危机局势相关。然而，特定个人和群体的脆弱性也源于持久和多种形式的冲突和暴力。因此，保护​​网络首先认识到有必要拓宽我们对保护的概念和经验理解。在此过程中，它从需要保护的人而不是正式组织、框架和规范的角度审视了保护弱势群体的挑战。拟议的保护网络是爱丁堡大学、斯里兰卡开放大学、法律与社会信托基金、USIU-Africa、奥尔堡大学和东安格利亚大学之间的合作伙伴关系，并将扩大到包括对弱势群体的复杂保护需求感兴趣的其他研究人员和从业人员。自下而上地概念化保护使我们能够理解保护需要采取的多种形式，因为它们植根于社会、经济和政治背景。关注人而不是事件或规范框架意味着我们可以将危机视为非例外，并打破预防和应对之间的鸿沟。这样做还有助于我们超越形成人道主义干预措施的孤岛，跨不同的研究和政策领域进行学习，并支持新的实践社区。它使我们能够理解人们寻求保护自己免受暴力侵害的多种方式——例如，这些方式可能与生计以及法律权利有关——同时承认这些做法本身可能是矛盾的、适得其反的和排斥性的。无论哪种方式，如果我们要开始寻找解决方案来确认保护权利并制定反应更迅速、更有效的干预措施，那么从实地保护需求和实践入手至关重要。肯尼亚和斯里兰卡将充当保护网络的中心枢纽，因为它们本身就是持久危机的所在地，而且因为它们是南亚、东南亚和东非的区域接入点。这两个独立的中心还将为新形式的南南合作和学习创造机会。这两个国家都存在长期的国家和非国家暴力、自然灾害和流离失所问题。与此同时，两国都拥有充满活力的人道主义和人权社区，并且一直是各种形式的国际干预的场所。保护网络将产生全面且可操作的知识，这些知识将被纳入更成熟的专业知识形式。通过建立植根于现实而不是政策类别的研究议程，该网络将在人权、人道主义和国际发展、强迫移民研究、安全和性别研究等领域建立桥梁。该开发项目通过与利益相关者和受益社区协商、就肯尼亚和斯里兰卡的保护含义和保护活动范围展开多部门和多学科对话，并为网络项目团队之间就这些主题进行持续对话创造机会，推进了保护网络的目标。