GCRF Development Award Creating Safer Space - Building Networks and Knowledge Bases for Civilian Protection

GCRF 发展奖创造更安全的空间 - 为平民保护建立网络和知识库

• 批准号: AH/T005394/1
• 负责人: Berit Bliesemann De Guevara
• 金额: $ 17.99万
• 依托单位: Aberystwyth 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%2FT005394%2F1
• 关键词: GCRF; Development; Award; Creating; Safer

The Development Award project "Creating Safer Space" works towards the vision of enhancing unarmed civilian protection practices, which create safer space for communities amidst violent conflict and help prevent displacement. According to United Nations Refugee Agency, there are now a record high of 68.5 million people forcibly displaced by violent conflict (UNHCR, 2019), and the majority of deaths in conflicts are among civilians, not armed actors. This makes the protection of civilians from physical harm in contexts of war a pressing issue of our time. While the international community has acknowledged the need for protection, the physical safety of civilians is still seen almost exclusively as a task of armed outside actors like UN blue helmets. The originality of this project is its focus on protection provided by unarmed civilian actors and deployed at the local level of communities, be it by "outside" specialists, "insider/local" protection actors or the conflict-affected communities themselves. Specifically, the project supports the building and consolidation of equitable partnerships in the field of unarmed civilian protection (UCP) between researchers in the UK and researchers and practitioners in four Low and Middle Income countries (LMIC) in Latin America and Southeast Asia, which have witnessed long-term and/or large-scale violence and displacement of different types and have been home to a variety of local protection initiatives: Colombia, Mexico, Myanmar, and the Philippines. The project's activities concentrate on five core objectives: (1) building and consolidating UCP partner networks that work equitably to enhance UCP work and knowledge; (2) scoping existing knowledge on UCP, including academic, non-academic and other sources (such as film, art or craft) and ways of knowing (such as indigenous knowledges and cosmologies); (3) enhancing research capacity and procedures by developing online training materials that enhance UK and partner country researchers' capacity to conduct safe, ethical and inclusive research; (4) creating communication channels for South-South learning by building a digital platfom that works across technological, lingusitic and cultural divides and enables a transnational sharing of experiences, and (5) facilitating advocacy and impact through stakeholder mapping. Through these activities the project will leave a sustainable legacy by putting in place partnerships, capacities and procedures for equitable research and impact which are of benefit to partners in their UCP work and also lay the foundations for future collaboration between UK and/or LMIC colleagues and organisations in the field of UCP. Taken together, these activities will work towards increasing the number of people benefiting from civilian protection worldwide.

发展奖项目“创造更安全的空间”致力于加强手无寸铁的平民保护做法，为处于暴力冲突中的社区创造更安全的空间，并帮助防止流离失所。根据联合国难民署的数据，目前因暴力冲突被迫流离失所的人数达到创纪录的6850万人(难民署，2019年)，冲突中的大多数死亡人数是平民，而不是武装分子。这使得在战争中保护平民免遭人身伤害成为我们这个时代的紧迫问题。虽然国际社会承认需要保护，但平民的人身安全仍然被视为几乎完全是联合国蓝盔等外部武装行为者的任务。该项目的独创性在于其重点是由手无寸铁的平民行为者提供保护，并部署在社区的地方一级，无论是由“外部”专家、“内部/当地”保护行为者还是受冲突影响的社区本身。具体地说，该项目支持在手无寸铁的平民保护(UCP)领域建立和巩固英国研究人员与拉丁美洲和东南亚四个中低收入国家(LMIC)的研究人员和从业人员之间的公平伙伴关系，这些国家目睹了不同类型的长期和/或大规模暴力和流离失所，并发起了各种地方保护倡议：哥伦比亚、墨西哥、缅甸和菲律宾。该项目的活动集中于五个核心目标：(1)建立和巩固UCP合作伙伴网络，以公平地工作，促进UCP工作和知识；(2)界定UCP的现有知识，包括学术、非学术和其他来源(如电影、艺术或工艺)和了解方式(如本土知识和宇宙学)；(3)通过开发在线培训材料，提高英国和伙伴国研究人员进行安全、道德和包容性研究的能力，从而提高研究能力和程序；(4)建立一个跨越技术、语言和文化鸿沟的数字平台，为南南学习创造交流渠道，并促进跨国交流经验；(5)通过绘制利益攸关方地图，促进宣传和影响。通过这些活动，该项目将留下可持续的遗产，为公平的研究和影响建立伙伴关系、能力和程序，这对合作伙伴的UCP工作是有益的，也为联合王国和/或LMIC同事和组织未来在UCP领域的合作奠定了基础。总而言之，这些活动将努力增加全世界受益于平民保护的人数。