Staging Peace: International Observatory of Peace Media (GCRF Development Award)

该发展奖通过整合一个专家研究团队，以及来自四个oda名单国家（尼日尔、尼日利亚、喀麦隆和乍得）的各种政策和民间社会合作伙伴，响应了GCRF“预防冲突”的呼吁。选择这些国家背后的理由很清楚。这些国家受到与伊斯兰极端主义（博科圣地和西非伊斯兰国）有关的长期和加剧的冲突的影响。乍得湖危机是一个复杂的和多方面的冲突，我们的研究试图解决。这个观察站的重点不是这四个受影响的国家，而是这些官方发展援助署列出的受极端主义暴力影响最严重的国家——所有目前被列为“红色区域”的地区。这些地区是尼日尔的迪法、尼日利亚的博尔诺、乍得的杜拉克地区和喀麦隆所谓的极北地区。这一奖项将加强在这些偏远地区和跨这些地区进行行动研究的现有能力，为一项为期四年的方案奠定基础，该方案将解决多区域和多国和平合作的迫切需要。正如GCRF的呼吁所推动的那样，通过建立一个观察站，评估和监测四个受影响地区的重返社会方案，“实现和平”可以为可持续和包容性的和平建设铺平道路。在当前背景下，重返社会是在联合国去激进化、复员和重返社会（DDR）框架内理解的。该奖项还将促进合作伙伴的公平、南南知识共享以及相关学术和非学术利益攸关方之间的信任建立，以便启动一条研究轨迹，以更细致入微的方式更好地理解重返社会在实践中如何为当地社区的利益发挥作用。对良好做法的评估将使我们能够向决策者和政策利益攸关方（包括多国和国家军队、国家和地方政府制定的复员方案以及人道主义行为体）提供信息。鉴于媒体技术在博科圣地激进化议程和宣传工具中发挥的核心作用，媒体艺术作为重返社会的选择工具的重要性是合理的。该奖项将使我们能够继续与参与重返社会议程的主要媒体和艺术团体建立网络关系，特别是广播电台和电视台、戏剧团体和当地社区团体（即宗教或传统领袖和舆论制造者）。同样，来自AHRC-GCRF的支持将使“分期和平”小组能够加强实现“网络+”计划所需的行政和管理能力，尤其是在利兹大学的奖励后能力水平上。在这一为期12个月的合同中，将处理一系列“网络+”的具体问题，包括形成一个委托链和下放预算，在一个连贯的行动理论（和平媒体理论）内规划不同的DDR方案的综合；绘制跨性别、社会、文化和种族问题冲突的交叉性；以及在网络优势中出现的主题互动。该发展奖还将优先考虑将参与该奖项拟议活动的一系列利益相关者之间的政策和实践改进的影响和遗留战略的表达。在为期12个月的发展奖期间，我们将与军方、民间社会和政府行为体等主要政策相关团体进行接触。由于他们在政策和行动研究方面的资历，以及他们在博科圣地重返社会领域发表报告和决议的记录，本意见书中提到的个人都是“实现和平”小组的成员。该研究小组的所有成员都有在四个受影响的红色区域生活或工作的经历。

This Development Award responds to GCRF's call "Preventing Conflict" through the consolidation of an expert team of researchers, and a diverse array of policy and civil society partners across four ODA-listed countries (Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad). The rationale behind this choice of countries is clear. These countries are affected by protracted and aggravated conflict associated with Islamic extremism (Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West Africa Province). The Lake Chad Crisis is a complex and multidimensional conflict, which our research seeks to address. The focus of this observatory are not these four affected countries as a whole, but the regions within these ODA-listed countries most affected by extremist violence-- all currently classed Red Zones. These regions are Diffa in Niger, Borno in Nigeria, Region du Lac in Chad, and the so-called Extreme North region of Cameroon. This award will enhance existing capability for action research in and across these remote regions, laying foundations for a four-year programme that will address an urgent need for multi-regional and multinational peace cooperation. "Staging Peace" can pave the way for sustainable and inclusive peace-building, as prompted by this GCRF call, through the creation of an observatory that will evaluate and monitor reintegration programmes across the four affected regions. In the present context, reintegration is understood within the UN framework of de-radicalisation, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR). This award will also facilitate partner equitability, South-South knowledge sharing, and trust-building among the academic and non-academic stakeholders involved, in order to set in motion a trajectory of research that will better understand, and in a more nuanced way, how reintegration works in practice for the benefit of local communities. Evaluation of good practice will enable us to inform decision-makers and policy stakeholders, including multinational and national armies, DDR programmes set up by national and local governments, and humanitarian actors. The importance of media arts as chosen tool for reintegration is justified given the central role played by media technology in Boko Haram's radicalisation agenda and propaganda apparatus. This award will enable us to continue building network relations with key media and arts groups involved in the reintegration agenda, particularly radio and television stations, theatre groups, and local community groups (i.e. religious or traditional leaders and opinion makers). Support from AHRC-GCRF will likewise enable the "Staging Peace" team to strengthen the administrative and management capabilities needed for the realisation of a Network Plus programme, not least at the level of post-award capability within the University of Leeds. A number of Network Plus specifics will be addressed throughout this 12-month award, including the shaping of a commissioning strand and devolved budgets, the planning for synthesis of different DDR programmes within a coherent theory of action (Peace Media Theory); the mapping of intersectionality of conflict across gender, social, cultural and ethnic issues; and the thematic interactions emerging across Network Pluses. This development award will also prioritise the articulation of impact and legacy strategies for policy and practice improvement among a range of stakeholders that will be involved in this award's proposed activities. The main policy-related groups we will engage with over the course of this twelve month development award are military, civil society and government actors. The individuals named in this submission are part of the "Staging Peace" team given their strong policy and action research credentials, as well as their track-record of publishing reports and resolutions in the area of Boko Haram reintegration. All members of this research team have experience of living in, or working across, the four affected Red Zones.