GCRF Development Award - Preventing conflict in fragile countries through understanding and promoting economic justice

GCRF 发展奖 - 通过理解和促进经济正义预防脆弱国家的冲突

• 批准号: AH/T005483/1
• 负责人: Chuck Thiessen
• 金额: $ 7.46万
• 依托单位: Coventry University
• 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%2FT005483%2F1
• 关键词: GCRF; Development; Award; Preventing; conflict

Our overarching vision for this project is to model equitable and long-lasting working partnerships with research organisations in five low and middle countries (LMICs) - Afghanistan, Colombia, Guatemala, South Sudan and Syria - and strengthen their and our capabilities in regard to the global challenge of understanding the relationship between informal and formal economics in conflict zones and promote more robust research and evidence gathering around these themes. This project will implement a series of five national workshops which will feed into a global workshop to scope out a significant contributing factor to sustainable peace - economic justice and transformation. Set inside a larger funding proposal (GCRF Network Plus), this project will ultimately impact marginalised communities, who often experience economic inequalities connected to conflict and the widespread struggle to understand the interaction of formal and informal economics and what measures lead to sustainable peace. More specifically, this project will enable thematic, methodological and management skills sharing through a series of workshops, virtual capacity-building for partner organisations, and commission scoping exercises to: 1) illuminate context-specific and locally-identified and prioritised themes and issues (related to economic justice) by marginalised people affected by conflict, 2) gather and document local and/or local-language data, literature, commentary and other resources relevant to what economic justice and transformation looks like in specific contexts and 3) map local research institutions and infrastructure.This project will enhance our research network's ability to strengthen the evidence base for effective and contextually sensitive policies and programmes that prevent conflict and promote economic justice. Project activities are keenly informed by an awareness that global research partnerships have structural, social, material, personal and linguistic issues and exhibit power relations that determine whose knowledge, skills, agendas and values are prioritised. Further, the legacy of historical colonial relationships and current global power dynamics shape each of our five selected contexts and expectations of international development and research partnerships. In response, our proposed activities recognize that partners will have diverse priorities, concerns, schedules and capacities, and that ignoring these differences or assuming that partnerships are built on a level playing field can obstruct effective ways of working and limit our transformative capacity. Thus, this project has been conceived of and developed in partnership with project partners in the five selected LMICs, including five local offices of the international NGO Christian Aid along with a selection of their partner NGOs with whom Christian Aid has already established and nurtured relationships. The input of these organisations has directly shaped our project activities and will amplify project impact due to the knowledge, skills and experience that each partner brings.

我们对该项目的总体愿景是与五个中低收入国家（阿富汗、哥伦比亚、危地马拉、南苏丹和叙利亚）的研究机构建立公平和持久的工作伙伴关系，加强他们和我们在理解冲突地区非正规和正规经济学之间关系这一全球挑战方面的能力，并促进围绕这些主题进行更有力的研究和证据收集。这个项目将执行一系列的五个国家讲习班，这些讲习班将成为一个全球讲习班的一部分，以确定促进可持续和平的一个重要因素- -经济正义和变革。作为一个更大的资助提案（GCRF Network Plus）的一部分，该项目将最终影响边缘化社区，这些社区经常经历与冲突有关的经济不平等，他们很难理解正式和非正式经济的相互作用，以及什么措施可以实现可持续和平。更具体地说，该项目将通过一系列讲习班、伙伴组织的虚拟能力建设和委托范围界定活动，实现主题、方法和管理技能的分享，以便：1)阐明受冲突影响的边缘化人群的特定背景和当地确定的优先主题和问题（与经济正义有关），2)收集和记录当地和/或当地语言的数据，文献，评论和其他与特定背景下的经济正义和转型相关的资源，3)绘制当地研究机构和基础设施的地图。这个项目将增强我们的研究网络的能力，加强证据基础，制定有效的、对环境敏感的政策和规划，防止冲突和促进经济正义。项目活动敏锐地意识到，全球研究伙伴关系具有结构、社会、材料、个人和语言问题，并表现出决定谁的知识、技能、议程和价值观优先的权力关系。此外，历史殖民关系的遗产和当前的全球权力动态塑造了我们所选择的五个背景以及对国际发展和研究伙伴关系的期望。作为回应，我们提议的活动认识到合作伙伴将有不同的优先事项、关注点、时间表和能力，忽视这些差异或假设合作伙伴关系建立在一个公平的竞争环境上，可能会阻碍有效的工作方式，限制我们的变革能力。因此，这个项目是与五个选定的中低收入国家的项目伙伴合作构思和发展的，其中包括国际非政府组织基督教援助会的五个当地办事处，以及一些已经与基督教援助会建立和培养关系的合作伙伴非政府组织。这些组织的投入直接影响了我们的项目活动，并且由于每个合作伙伴带来的知识、技能和经验，将扩大项目的影响。