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。但在长期冲突和流离失所的背景下，往往是随着时间的推移而发生的隐性损害为未来的暴力、变革和可能的和平奠定了基础。时间的权利/时间的权利（RfT）网络将共同创造、共同评估和支持传播一种新的理解，即时间如何影响战争、流离失所和暴力，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。保护工作的主要障碍之一是未能衡量和查明目前在政策、法律和当地环境中对外部行为者来说并不明显的需求和问题。仅对"最近“的虐待或威胁作出反应的援助和保护不仅无法理解伤害的性质，而且限制了可能解决办法的可持续性。揭露时间和隐藏的损害的层次将揭示最脆弱和被剥夺权利的人的具体需求。暴力、流离失所和代际创伤的多重、多层次甚至同时经历会持续到后代，带来新的挑战，阻碍变革。为了解决这一问题，我们提出了一个新的全球性、移动的、跨学科和多方向的方法，以在更长的时间框架内发现和关注现代冲突、暴力和背井离乡。从艺术和人文，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，人道主义法和保护政策的国内合作伙伴和学术专家一起，我们将通过发展跨学科，对等，基于案例的研究来应对这些挑战。我们选择在特定环境内和跨特定环境开展工作，在这些环境中，长期的暴力行为产生了持久和棘手的挑战，特别是对妇女和女孩等弱势社区和群体。在黎巴嫩、卢旺达、肯尼亚、约旦和加沙地带及西岸发生的冲突造成了几代人被迫流离失所的情况。记忆遗产是急性的，创伤是永远存在的。我们将发展“争取时间的权利”的概念，以建立一个网络，将冲突的隐性遗产直接纳入人道主义保护和人权政策与实践。来自伯明翰大学、KCL大学、SOAS大学、UCL大学以及哈希姆大学（约旦）和黎巴嫩美国大学的共同调查员将与一系列项目合作伙伴合作，包括Wangu Kanju、我们爱阅读、BLAST、非洲人类进步倡议和基加利摄影中心，以确定、试点和委托进行一系列初步案例研究，然后是长期项目，建立新的证据基础，制定新的政策、实践和法律，并在地方、国家和国际各级使长期暴力造成的伤害形式在文化上可见。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。它还将促进广泛规划和制定将在整个网络中采用的关键政策，特别是围绕道德操守/保障、性别平等和包容性的政策。我们还将为RfT网络制定一项沟通计划，包括启动一个初始项目网站，以提高认识并鼓励参与该项目。