The hidden peace-builders: from ambivalence to engagement, strengthening the role of local faith actors in peace-building and reconciliation

我们在发展奖期间的主要目标是继续推动建立一个强大的、跨学科的、公平的全球南北研究和和平建设组织网络，如果我们的申请成功，作为2020年4月启动“网络+”的基础，或者作为确定新的资助可能性的基石，并提供一个准备就绪的坚定建议。为了支持公平和可持续的伙伴关系，我们决定在发展奖期间组织活动的最佳方式是处理对我们大纲建议的具体反馈。我们的“网络+”项目旨在通过南苏丹、菲律宾和斯里兰卡的区域中心，首次对当地信仰行为者在支持和平建设的跨宗教和信仰内部倡议中的作用进行大规模比较研究。它将解决以下对实现可持续发展目标16 RQ1至关重要的研究问题：当地信仰行为者（lfa）如何以及如何最好地支持受暴力冲突影响的社区的和平，以及在从冲突到和平再到和解的过程中处于什么阶段？RQ2：人道主义组织、草根民间社会组织和地方政府如何在这一过程中最有效地与lfa合作？RQ3：按照所谓的“三重联系”方法，这可以在多大程度上补充社区规划的其他方面，例如促进持续的儿童福祉和性别平等？RQ4：在冲突的宗教层面之外，宗教间和宗教内部的倡议如何有助于建立和平？RQ5：宗教教义和神学在哪些方面推动了许多地方信仰团体的叙述及其对冲突和和平建设的反应？除了促进研究，“网络+”还将开发课程，包括电子学习版本，供发展/人道主义组织、基层公民社会组织和地方政府使用。本课程的目的是使这些利益攸关方有能力使lfa参与建设和平进程。我们将分为三个阶段来处理反馈并开始开发网络+：第一阶段-准备完整的提案（2019年7月1日至9月19日）。工作将由一名研究助理进行，他将：确定关于基于信仰的缔造和平的现有课程和项目；在每个国家进行利益相关者分析；联系，跟进，打电话/ skype，介绍这些地区的人开始发展网络。这种查找和共享信息的密集过程，以及滚雪球式的联系，对于实现Network Plus的广泛支持至关重要。RA的工作将于八月底完成，以便纳入完整的建议。第二阶段——网络+启动前的准备阶段（2019年9月20日至2020年3月30日）——我们将在南苏丹、斯里兰卡和哥伦比亚举行三次国别会议。这些活动将持续三天，并将由中心领导和项目合作伙伴的当地办事处提供意见。第一天：核心团队会议——核心团队成员见面和交流的机会；检讨“网络+”的全面建议及其与本地区的契合程度，包括潜在的挑战和风险。第二天：为广泛的利益相关者举行公开会议，介绍网络+，并引起当地的兴趣和反馈。第三天：与主要利益相关者举行一个更小的、更有针对性的研讨会，通过网络+的三个部分的后勤工作，包括开始计划具体活动及其在第一个部分的时间安排。第三阶段（2020年4月1日至6月30日）——将其他阶段的研究结果纳入“网络+”的启动，或用于申请其他资金来源。

Our key aim during the Development Award is to press on with growing a strong, interdisciplinary and equitable network of Global South and North research and peace-building organisations as either the basis for launching the Network Plus in April 2020, if our application is successful, or as the cornerstone of identifying new funding possibilities with a firm proposal that is ready to go. We have decided that the best way to organise our activities during the Development Award, to support equitable and sustainable partnerships, is to address the specific feedback on our outline proposal.Our Network Plus aims to deliver the first large-scale comparative study on the role of local faith actors in inter- and intra-faith initiatives to support peace building, working from regional hubs in South Sudan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. It will address the following research questions emerging as important for achieving SDG 16,RQ1: How can and do local faith actors (LFAs) best support peace in communities affected by violent conflict, and at what points in the journey from conflict to peace to reconciliation?RQ2: How can humanitarian organisations, grassroots civil society organisations and local government most effectively engage with LFAs in this process?RQ3: To what extent can this complement other aspects of community-based programming following the so-called 'triple nexus' approach, for instance to promote sustained child well-being and gender equality? RQ4: How do inter- and intra-faith initiatives can contribute to peace building efforts beyond the (apparent) religious dimensions of conflict?RQ5: In what ways do religious teachings and theologies drive the narrative of many local faith communities and their responses to conflict and peace building?In addition to facilitating research, the Network Plus will develop curricula, including e-learning versions, for use by development/humanitarian organisations, grassroots civil society organisations and local government. The aim of this curricula is to equip these stakeholders to engage LFAs in peace building processes.There will be three stages to how we tackle the feedback and begin to develop the Network Plus:STAGE ONE - preparing the full proposal (July 1st - Sept. 19th, 2019). Work will be undertaken by a research assistant who will: identifying existing curricula and projects on faith-based peace-building; carry out a stakeholder analysis in each country; and contacting, following up, phoning/skyping and introducing these people in the regions to begin to develop the network. This intensive process of locating and sharing information, and snowballing contacts, is essential to achieve a wide buy-in for the Network Plus. The work of the RA will be completed by the end of August so that it can feed into the full proposal. STAGE TWO - run up to start of Network Plus (Sept. 20th, 2019 - 30th, March 2020) - We will hold three country meetings in South Sudan, Sri Lanka and Columbia. These will last three days each and will be organised with input from the hub leaders and the local offices of the project partners.-Day one: core team meeting - a chance for the core team members to meet and network; to review the three strands of the Network Plus full proposal and its fit with the region, including potential challenges and risks. -Day two: an open meeting for broad range of stakeholders to introduce the Network Plus, and to generate local interest and feedback. -Day three: a smaller more targeted workshop with key stakeholders, to work through the logistics of the three strands of the Network Plus, including beginning to plan the specific activities and their timing for Strand One. STAGE THREE -(April 1st - June 30th, 2020) - to feed findings from the other stages into the inception of the Network Plus or use them to apply for other funding sources.