In the name of the father: Otino Onywalo Ilum - docu-dance theatre and children born of war

在父亲的名义下，发展和扩大AHRC网络“战争中出生的儿童--过去、现在和未来”的艺术、文化、社会和福祉影响活动(2011-14)。该网络将研究人员和实践者聚集在一起，探讨因战争而出生的儿童(CBOW)的生命历程，特别强调第二次世界大战期间和之后的儿童以及自1980年代中期以来乌干达北部上帝抵抗军战争期间的儿童。这项研究的目的是响应非政府组织、政策制定者和社区组织本身经常表达的对加强了解社区组织挑战的需求；我们遵循包容的参与性方法，让研究人群与包括非政府组织、慈善机构和政策制定者在内的一系列合作伙伴一起参与。关键的见解，包括加强对社区组织在不同背景下面临的挑战的理解，以及对改善其福祉和生活质量的最佳方法的相关见解，激发了创新的、意想不到的影响活动。这些是基于额外的研究成果，即由包容性的跨部门研究和影响设计推动的赋权和能力建设是优化个人和社会成果的关键。因此，一些最初的网络成员通过持续参与社区组织，并与编舞Darrel Toulon及其制作公司Alpha Group建立了密集的学术-艺术伙伴关系，正在为社区组织和与社区组织共同制定一项政策相关的注重业绩的赋权项目方案。该项目与挪威、波斯尼亚和乌干达的社区组织的三个具体小组进行接触，旨在通过以下方式进行能力建设和赋权：--跨代和国际对话--探索提高认识的创造性替代途径--通过建立与媒体、决策者、服务提供者和政治家--通过认识CBOW经验的历史和政治背景来建设力量--建设CBOW的能力，通过建立网络机会和通过支持但独立地与利益攸关方接触来确定进一步参与的方向。这一影响将通过发展一个多章节的文献舞蹈剧场来实现：以父亲的名义，由伯明翰大学和阿尔法团体(https://www.the-alpha-group.org/))领导的学术-艺术努力将第二次世界大战中的CBOW和前南斯拉夫与冲突有关的强奸孕育的波斯尼亚儿童与乌干达北部被绑架和强迫奴役的妇女的子女联系起来通过根据在乌干达兰戈Aboke与CBOW举办的为期四周的研讨会上收集的证词，创建舞蹈表演的乌干达部分。该项目分为三个相互关联的部分：1)CBOW的艺术-创意-历史和文化背景叙事构成戏剧舞蹈制作的基础，由专业演员支持，将由CBOW自己表演。2)跨代-通过Skype促进的研讨会会议，CBOW三次战争(前南斯拉夫，3)社会包容--受生活故事叙事方法的启发，通过将文化和信仰领袖纳入纪录舞剧场，目的是让当地社区、学校以及文化和信仰团体公众参与表演主题：全面包容的冲突后和解和重建。该项目的启动非常及时，因为联合国安理会第2467(2019)号决议最近强调了在全球支持社区妇女的社会、经济和情感福祉的必要性。

In the Name of the Father develops and extends the artistic, cultural, societal and wellbeing impact activities of the AHRC network "Children Born of War - Past, Present and Future" (2011-14). This network brought together researchers and practitioners exploring the life courses of children born of war (CBOW) with particular emphasis on children fathered during and after World War II and children fathered during the LRA War in Northern Uganda since the mid 1980s. This research was designed to respond to a need, frequently-expressed by NGOs, policy-makers and CBOWs themselves, for an enhanced understanding of the challenges of CBOW; we followed an inclusive participatory approach that involved the study population alongside a range of partners, including NGOs, charities and policy-makers.The key insights, including the enhanced understanding of the challenges faced by CBOW in different contexts, and the related insights into best approaches to improving their wellbeing and quality of life have inspired innovative, unexpected impact activities. These are based on the additional research outcome, namely that empowerment and capacity-building driven by an inclusive cross-sectoral research and impact design are key to optimising individual and societal outcomes. As a result, some of the initial network members, through sustained engagement with CBOW and an intensive academic-artistic partnership with a choreographer, Darrel Toulon, and his production company, the alpha group, are developing a programme of policy-relevant performance-oriented projects of empowerment for and with the CBOW.Engaging with three specific groups of CBOW in Norway, Bosnia and Uganda, the project aims at capacity-building and empowerment through:- transgenerational and international dialogue- exploring creative alternative avenues of awareness raising- amplifying the effectiveness of advocacy of CBOW through confidence building for engagement with media, policy-makers, service providers and politicians- building strength through awareness of historical and political contextualisation of the CBOW experiences- building capacity for CBOW to determine the direction of further engagement through networking opportunities and through supported, yet independent engagement with stakeholders.This impact will be achieved through the development of a multi-chapter docu-dance theatre: In the Name of the Father, an academic-artistic endeavour led by the University of Birmingham and the alpha group (https://www.the-alpha-group.org/) linking CBOW from World War II and Bosnian children conceived of conflict-related rape in former Yugoslavia with children of abducted and forcibly enslaved women in Northern Uganda, through the creation of the Ugandan chapter of a dance performance based on testimony collected in a four-week workshop with CBOW in Aboke, Lango, Uganda.The project is divided into three interlinked strands:1) artistic-creative - historically and culturally contextualised narratives of CBOW form the basis of a theatre-dance production that, supported by professional actors, will be performed by the CBOW themselves.2) transnational-transgenerational - through Skype-facilitated workshop sessions, CBOW of the three wars (former Yugoslavia, World War II and Uganda will work together in the artistic-creative activities and in developing advocacy activities in Acholi and Lango.3) social-inclusion - inspired by the life-story narrative approach that forms the basis not only for the docu-dance theatre, through inclusion of cultural and faith leaders, the aim is to engage local communities, schools and cultural and faith groups public with the subject of the performance: fully inclusive post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction.The launch of the project is extremely timely as UN Security Council Resolution 2467 (2019) has recently highlighted the need to support social, economic and emotional wellbeing of CBOW globally.