Stages of Violence Research Network

“暴力阶段”研究网络及时地探索了表演与暴力之间的关系。该项目为期两年，将汇集对与肯尼亚、卢旺达和北爱尔兰的暴力背景和遗产有关的表演感兴趣的学者和从业人员。这三个国家都有共同的殖民暴力历史，以及最近将导致暴力的宗教和（或）种族特征作为政治工具的历史。更具体地说，该网络将考虑绩效如何与集体暴力行为有关，集体暴力行为被定义为参与和/或组建为经济、政治或社会利益而对他人实施暴力的团体。我们将问表演和表演制作者如何代表、挑战和/或维持暴力？这个问题将通过三个关键活动和最后的在线研讨会来探讨。首先，我们将通过肯尼亚的一个事件来考虑如何利用绩效来预防暴力，在肯尼亚，围绕总统选举的暴力导致了预防性工作的开展。我们将利用阿曼人民剧院的专门知识，以及他们利用受压迫者剧院的方法来防止参与冲突和暴力。其次，在北爱尔兰举办的一场活动将考虑表演如何解决暴力问题，并继续与暴力进行接触。在这里，我们将与德里剧场的专业人士合作，他们经营着创新的艺术与和平项目。第三，我们将前往卢旺达，研究表演如何成为纪念暴力行为的一部分，标记（有时掩盖）暴力的历史和叙述。参加者将参加由Hope Azeda （Mashirika Arts）组织的Ubumuntu艺术节。最后，在线研讨会将超越预防、解决和纪念暴力，询问接下来会发生什么？持续将特定背景描述为暴力，或以暴力遗产为标志，可能会进一步加剧冲突，并阻止向新的、可选择的未来过渡。该活动将借鉴前三次讲习班的成果。该网络将包括六名核心参与者，其中一些是上述机构的代表。已经从每个国家征聘了两名核心参与者，他们将负责网络活动的一些规划和执行，包括在每个国家再征聘10名参与者，他们将参加在各自背景下举行的活动。研究网络的研究结果将有助于对表演和暴力的学术理解和论述，也有助于在实地从事这项工作的戏剧和表演从业人员的方法和知识。这些活动将产生一本合编的书，我们渴望为网络之外的持续伙伴关系创造新的机会。

The 'Stages of Violence' Research Network offers a timely exploration of the relationships between performance and violence. It will run over a two-year period and bring together academics and practitioners who are interested in performance that relates to contexts and legacies of violence in Kenya, Rwanda and Northern Ireland. All three countries have shared histories of colonial violence and, more recently, of the political instrumentalization of religious and/or ethnic identities which have led to violence. More specifically, the network will consider how performance relates to acts of collective violence, defined as the participation in, and/or formation of, groups who engage in violence against others for economic, political or social gain. We will ask how performance and performance makers represent, challenge, and/or sustain violence? This question will be explored through three key events, and a final online symposium. First, we will consider how performance is being used to prevent violence through an event in Kenya, where violence around presidential elections has led to preventative work taking place. We will draw on the expertise of Amani People's Theatre and their use of Theatre of the Oppressed approaches to prevent participation in conflict and violence. Second, an event in Northern Ireland will consider how performance has addressed, and continues to engage with, violence. Here, we will engage with the expertise of Derry Playhouse, which runs innovative arts and peace projects. Third, we will travel to Rwanda to examine how performance is part of commemorating acts of violence, marking (and at times masking) histories and narratives of violence. Participants will attend the Ubumuntu Arts Festival - organized by Hope Azeda (Mashirika Arts). Finally, the online symposium will move beyond preventing, addressing and commemorating violence, asking what happens next? The continual representation of particular contexts as violent, or marked by legacies of violence, may further entrench conflict and prevent the transition towards new, alternative, futures. The event will draw on the findings of the three previous workshops.The network will comprise six core participants, some of whom are representatives from the organisations mentioned above. Two core participants have been recruited from each country, and they will take responsibility for some of the planning and implementation of network events, including the recruitment of ten further participants in each country, who will attend the events happening in their respective contexts. The findings of the research network will contribute towards academic understandings and discourses of performance and violence but also to the approaches and knowledges of the theatre and performance practitioners who are doing this work, on the ground. The activities will result in a co-edited book and we aspire to create new opportunities for sustained partnerships beyond the network.