Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia

建立讲真话的信任是一个以艺术为基础的项目，它促进将前儿童兵纳入哥伦比亚关于内战的官方叙述中，并保证他们的声音得到表达。这是哥伦比亚真相委员会、大学、草根民间社会组织和来自英国和哥伦比亚的艺术家之间的合作。哥伦比亚澄清真相、共存和不重复委员会(“委员会”)已经认识到它有一个紧急的证据不足。委员会特别要求我们帮助接触前儿童兵，并要求我们与这一团体合作，使用联合制作技术，记录他们的历史，引出证词，并就不再发生冲突提出具体建议。因此，该项目旨在通过创造性的方法建立信任，并促进纳入这些被边缘化的前儿童兵的声音。具体地说，我们的目标有三个：(A)向委员会提供基于生平故事叙述交流/采访的证词，以纳入委员会的正式报告，并在这样做的同时捕捉到迄今为止在历史档案中基本上被忽视的一次重要事件(《柏林行动》)的历史。(B)反思联合制作技术在哥伦比亚以及最终在哥伦比亚以外的敏感历史时刻留下的遗产的有效性。(C)利用这些反思来制作一部基于收集的证词的动画，并为建设和平的教育目的建立一个工具，据此可以提出不重复和解的建议。更广泛的推广和巩固。将通过一系列以艺术为基础的工作坊来获得测试，参与者将在工作坊中相互面试和接受采访。通过鼓励参与这些交流，我们将创造一个安全的空间，在其中可以与其他有着相似经历的人建立信心和韧性。该项目将特别关注《柏林行动》的证词。2000年，哥伦比亚军队在该国东北部的Tibú镇外对哥伦比亚革命武装力量的Arturo Ruiz纵队发动了袭击。20多名儿童兵在袭击中丧生，但发生了什么事情的事实仍不清楚，军方被指控掩盖了这起暴行。至少有10名这起事件的幸存者承诺参与我们的项目。这些参与者将首次在官方层面分享他们的故事。哥伦比亚持续的暴力不仅塑造了外部行为者如何看待哥伦比亚，而且塑造了个人和社区如何看待自己，构建记忆和身份，以及创造和分享信仰和价值观“(Dancey和Morison，2019，p.34)。它创造了斯坦纳(2005)所说的“消极身份”，不仅在个人生活中造成创伤，而且还限制了哥伦比亚人民“想象一个不同的未来”的能力(Sanford，2006，Dancey et al，2019)。艺术和文化干预试图通过鼓励创造“新的想象力”来实现和平与和解，鼓励人们以新的方式思考社会，并通过图像和故事捕捉到这些新方式(Taylor，2004)。建设和平项目的重点，特别是那些与年轻人一起工作的项目，往往旨在强调新的叙述的重要性，这些叙述与参与者的声音密切相关，并提供复原力战略，同时也承认暴力的遗留问题。我们在这个项目中的意图是尽可能地贴近参与者的声音和生活经历的故事，同时也为今天的参与者创造一个对过去遗产进行批判性反思的安全空间。通过这样做，我们的研究将对哥伦比亚的和平进程做出紧迫和必要的贡献，并研究和平建设中以艺术为基础的联合制作。

Building Trust for Truth-Telling is an arts-based project which facilitates the inclusion of former child soldiers, and guarantees the representation of their voices, in Colombia's official narrative of the civil war. It is a collaboration between the Colombian Truth Commission, universities, grassroots civil society organizations and artists from the UK and Colombia. The Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition in Colombia (the 'Commission') has recognised it has an urgent evidence deficit. The Commission has asked us for help to approach former child soldiers, in particular, and has asked us to work with this group, using co-production techniques, to capture their history, to elicit testimony and provide concrete recommendations for the non-repetition of conflict. This project is therefore intended to build trust and foster the inclusion of the marginalised voices of these former child soldiers through creative methods. Specifically, our aim is threefold: (a) to provide the Commission with testimony based on life-story narrative exchanges/interviews for inclusion in its official report and in so doing also capture the history of an important event ('Operation Berlin' see below), largely ignored in the historical archive to date.(b) to reflect upon the efficacy of co-production techniques to engage with the legacy of sensitive historical moments in, and ultimately beyond, Colombia.(c) to use these reflections to inform an animation based on the collected testimonies and build a tool for peace-building education purposes, on which recommendations for non-repetition reconciliation can be made, promoted and consolidated more widely.Testimony will be elicited via a series of arts-based workshops in which participants will both interview and be interviewed among themselves. By encouraging participation in these exchanges, we will create a safe space in which confidence and resilience can be built with others, who share similar stories. The project will give special attention to testimony on 'Operation Berlin.' In 2000, the Colombian army launched an attack against the Arturo Ruiz column of the FARC outside the town of Tibú in the north east of the country. More than 20 child soldiers were killed in the attack, but the facts about what happened remain unclear, and the army has been accused of covering up the atrocity. At least 10 survivors of this incident have committed to taking part in our project. These participants will be sharing their stories at an official level for the first time.Colombia's sustained violence 'shapes not only how external actors perceive Colombia, but how individuals and communities perceive themselves, construct memories and identity, and create and share beliefs and values' (Dancey and Morrison, 2019, p.34). It has created what Steiner (2005) terms a 'negative identity' and not only causes trauma in individual lives, but also restricts the Colombian people's ability to 'imagine a different future' (Sanford, 2006, Dancey et al, 2019).Artistic and cultural interventions seek to engender peace and reconciliation through encouraging the creation of 'new imaginaries', of new ways for groups of people to think about society, captured in images and stories (Taylor, 2004). The focus of peace-building projects, particularly those working with young people, often aims to place an emphasis on the importance of new narratives, which stay close to the participants' voices and offer strategies for resilience, whilst also acknowledging the legacy of violence. Our intention in the project is to stay as close to the participants' voices and stories of lived experience as possible, whilst also creating a safe space for critical reflection on the legacy of the past for participants today. In so doing, our research will make an urgent, and necessary, contribution to Colombia's peace process, and research on arts-based coproduction in peace-building.