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

在前儿童兵中建立讲真话的信任：哥伦比亚包容与和平建设动画

• 批准号: AH/V004212/1
• 负责人: Paul Cooke
• 金额: $ 18.12万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV004212%2F1
• 关键词: Building; Trust; Truth; Telling; Among

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.

“建立对讲述真相的信任”是一个以艺术为基础的项目，旨在促进将前儿童兵纳入哥伦比亚关于内战的官方叙述，并保证他们的声音得到代表。这是哥伦比亚真相委员会、大学、基层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”）承认，它存在紧迫的证据不足问题。委员会请我们帮助特别是接触前儿童兵，并请我们与这一群体合作，利用共同制作技术，记录他们的历史，收集证词，并为避免冲突重演提出具体建议。因此，该项目旨在建立信任，并通过创造性的方法促进这些前儿童兵的边缘化声音的融入。具体而言，我们的目标有三个方面：（a）向委员会提供以生活故事叙述交流/访谈为基础的证词，以纳入其正式报告，这样做也能记录一个重要事件（“柏林行动”，见下文）的历史，迄今为止，这个事件在历史档案中基本上被忽视。(b)反思联合制作技术的有效性，以参与哥伦比亚乃至哥伦比亚以外的敏感历史时刻的遗产。(c)利用这些反思，根据收集到的证词制作动画，并为建设和平的教育目的建立一个工具，在此基础上，可以更广泛地提出、促进和巩固不重复和解的建议。通过鼓励参与这些交流，我们将创造一个安全的空间，在这个空间里，可以与有着类似经历的其他人建立信心和复原力。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FARC的Arturo Ruiz纵队发动了袭击。20多名儿童兵在袭击中丧生，但有关所发生事件的事实仍不清楚，军队被指控掩盖暴行。至少有10名这一事件的幸存者承诺参加我们的项目。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“不仅影响了外部行为者如何看待哥伦比亚，也影响了个人和社区如何看待自己，构建记忆和身份，创造和分享信仰和价值观”（Dancey和莫里森，2019年，第34页）。它创造了施泰纳（2005）所说的“负面身份”，不仅对个人生活造成创伤，而且限制了哥伦比亚人民“想象不同未来”的能力。（桑福德，2006年，丹西等人，2019年）。艺术和文化干预旨在通过鼓励创造“新的博物馆”，人们思考社会的新方式，在图像和故事中捕获（Taylor，2004）。建设和平项目的重点，特别是那些与青年人合作的项目，往往旨在强调新的叙述的重要性，这些叙述贴近参与者的声音，并提供复原力战略，同时也承认暴力的遗留问题。我们在项目中的意图是尽可能接近参与者的声音和生活经验的故事，同时也为今天的参与者创造一个安全的空间，对过去的遗产进行批判性反思。通过这样做，我们的研究将为哥伦比亚的和平进程做出紧急和必要的贡献，并研究以艺术为基础的和平建设合作。

项目成果

Challenges and New Directions in Journalism

新闻业的挑战和新方向

• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Charles, M.