GCRF Development Award: Rights for Time

GCRF 发展奖：时间权利

• 批准号: AH/T005513/1
• 负责人: Heather Flowe
• 金额: $ 17.55万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 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%2FT005513%2F1
• 关键词: GCRF; Development; Award; Rights; Time

Humanitarian policy and practice is driven by the immediacy of crisis and urgency. But in contexts of protracted conflict and displacement, it is often the hidden damage that takes place over time that sets the terms for future violence, change, and possible peace. The Rights for Time/Time for Rights (RfT) Network will co-create, co-evaluate and support the dissemination of a new understanding of how time conditions war, displacement, and violence, and shifts the possibilities and frame of action for humanitarian protection and human rights.Our focus on time responds to gaps identified by our overseas partners in the Protection in Contexts of Conflict and Displacement theme. One of the major stumbling-blocks to protection is the failure to measure and identify needs andproblems not currently obvious to external actors in policy, law, and in local contexts. Aid and protection that reacts to only the most 'recent' abuse or threat not only fails to understand the nature of injury, but limits the sustainability of possible solutions. Uncovering layers of time and hidden damage will reveal the specific needs of the most vulnerable and disenfranchised. Multiple, layered and even simultaneous experiences of violence, displacement, and generational trauma persist into future generations, creating new challenges and blocking change. To address this, we are proposing a new global, mobile, interdisciplinary, and multi-directional approach to uncover and focus on modern conflict, violence, and uprootedness within a longer time frame. Drawing together in-country partners and academic experts from the arts and humanities, the psy-sciences, neuroscience, medical anthropology, refugee studies, gender studies, human rights, transitional justice, and humanitarian law, and protection policy, we will meet these challenges by developing interdisciplinary, peer-to-peer, case-based research. We have chosen to work both within and across specific contexts where the long periods of violence produce enduring and intractable challenges, particularly for vulnerable communities and groups, such as women and girls. Conflict in Lebanon, Rwanda, Kenya, Jordan and the Gaza Strip and West Bank, has resulted in patterns of forced displacement that span generations. Memory legacies are acute, and trauma is ever-present. We will develop the concept of Rights for Time to build a network that can bring the hidden legacies of conflict directly into humanitarian protection and human rights policy and practice. Co-Investigators based at the universities of Birmingham, KCL, SOAS, UCL and at the Hashemite University (Jordan) and the Lebanese American University will work with a series of Project Partners, including Wangu Kanju, We Love Reading, BLAST, the African Initiative for Mankind Progress and the Kigali Center for Photography to identify, pilot and commission a series of initial case studies, followed by longer projects, to generate new evidence bases, develop new policy, practice and law in action and make the forms of injury of protracted violence culturally visible at local, national and international levels. In doing so, partner countries will have the necessary tools and an increased ability to develop effective protection solutionsfor those most affected by conflict and violence, especially vulnerable groups.This Development Award will allow us to deepen and strengthen our partnerships, particularly with NGOs, charities and community groups in the LMICs mentioned above. It will also facilitate extensive planning and the formulation of key policies, to be adopted across the Network, particularly around ethics/safeguarding and gender and inclusivity. We will also develop a communications plan for the RfT Network, including the launch of an initial project website, to raise awareness and encourage engagement with the project.

人道主义政策和实践是由危机的紧迫性和紧迫性驱动的。但在旷日持久的冲突和流离失所的背景下，往往是随着时间的推移发生的隐藏损害为未来的暴力、变革和可能的和平奠定了基础。时间权利/时间权利 (RfT) 网络将共同创造、共同评估和支持传播对时间如何影响战争、流离失所和暴力的新理解，并改变人道主义保护和人权行动的可能性和框架。我们对时间的关注回应了我们的海外合作伙伴在冲突和流离失所背景下的保护主题中发现的差距。保护的主要障碍之一是无法衡量和识别政策、法律和当地环境中目前对外部参与者而言并不明显的需求和问题。仅针对最近的虐待或威胁做出反应的援助和保护不仅无法了解伤害的性质，而且限制了可能解决方案的可持续性。揭开时间层层和隐藏的损害将揭示最脆弱和被剥夺权利的群体的具体需求。暴力、流离失所和代际创伤的多重、分层甚至同时发生的经历持续影响子孙后代，带来新的挑战并阻碍变革。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一种新的全球性、移动性、跨学科和多方向的方法，以在更长的时间内发现和关注现代冲突、暴力和背井离乡。我们将汇集来自艺术和人文学科、心理科学、神经科学、医学人类学、难民研究、性别研究、人权、过渡时期司法、人道主义法以及保护政策领域的国内合作伙伴和学术专家，通过开展跨学科、同行、基于案例的研究来应对这些挑战。我们选择在长期暴力造成持久且棘手挑战的特定背景下开展工作，特别是对妇女和女童等弱势社区和群体而言。黎巴嫩、卢旺达、肯尼亚、约旦、加沙地带和西岸的冲突导致了几代人的被迫流离失所。记忆遗留问题很严重，创伤也始终存在。我们将发展“时间权利”的概念，建立一个网络，将冲突的隐藏遗产直接纳入人道主义保护以及人权政策和实践中。伯明翰大学、伦敦大学学院、伦敦大学亚非学院、伦敦大学学院、哈希姆大学（约旦）和黎巴嫩美国大学的联合研究人员将与一系列项目合作伙伴合作，包括 Wangu Kanju、We Love Reading、BLAST、非洲人类进步倡议和基加利摄影中心，以确定、试点和委托一系列初步案例研究，随后开展更长期的项目，以产生新的证据基础，开发新的项目。 行动中的政策、实践和法律，使长期暴力造成的伤害形式在地方、国家和国际层面上具有文化可见性。通过这样做，伙伴国家将拥有必要的工具和更强的能力，为受冲突和暴力影响最严重的人，特别是弱势群体制定有效的保护解决方案。这一发展奖将使我们能够深化和加强我们的伙伴关系，特别是与上述中低收入国家的非政府组织、慈善机构和社区团体的伙伴关系。它还将促进整个网络采用的广泛规划和关键政策的制定，特别是在道德/保障以及性别和包容性方面。我们还将为 RfT 网络制定沟通计划，包括启动初始项目网站，以提高认识并鼓励参与该项目。