Visualising Justice on Sexual Violence in Kenya: Stimulating inclusion, Peace and Public Engagement through the Creative Economy

肯尼亚性暴力正义可视化：通过创意经济促进包容、和平与公众参与

• 批准号: AH/W006510/1
• 负责人: Heather Flowe
• 金额: $ 16.67万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW006510%2F1
• 关键词: Visualising; Justice; Sexual; Violence; Kenya

This project disseminates research from our AHRC-funded GCRF Rights for Time/Time for Rights Network Plus (AH/T008091/1), which is an interdisciplinary intersectoral research network+ that is focused on humanitarian protection research for the purpose of achieving economic, social, and policy impacts. Our research in Kenya is documenting the cumulative harms that survivors endure in the aftermath of sexual violence. The research is studying the nature of sexual violence and changing the way that evidence is gathered to prevent crimes and better protect survivors, thereby addressing SDG5 and SDG16. What our analysis shows, is that some of the most lasting harms are connected to social perceptions of sexual assault-who perpetrates it, and who can be a victim. The research results challenge crisis notions of harm, revealing that sexual violence survivors endure harms from not only the crime itself, but also from the inadequate enforcement of law and policy. Crucially, the sorts of harms Rights for Time research has documented are not specific to survivors in Kenya. Around the world, sexual offenses are widespread, underreported, and seldomly prosecuted. In the UK, the prosecution rate of sexual assault cases is estimated to be less than 2%--and that is of the assaults reported to the police. The theoretical insights gained through the research challenge crisis notions of harm and are applicable globally. In order to change the long-term outcomes of the survivors, we need to begin sharing the data collected through our programs. This follow-on project disseminates our research via a participatory documentary film project that aims to impact social perceptions of sexual violence and survivors via the creative economy. Our nonacademic partners on the project are the Survivors of Sexual Violence in Kenya Network , and the Wangu Kanja Foundation. This follow-on project amplifies the impact of our research by increasing awareness about our research findings, which shed light on the realities of sexual violence and the cumulative trauma and harms that survivors endure. The participatory film will create space for survivors to reflect on their individual and collective strengths and concerns. The nature of the participatory approach is transformative because it functions as a form of empowerment, facilitating the development of confidence while eliminating oppressive beliefs, labels, stereotypes, and stigma. The impact activities empower survivors, giving them a voice, and in doing so, promote meaningful change in how the public perceives the crime and survivors, and how authorities address these types of offences. The participatory film will document survivors' experiences of devaluation and powerlessness in their personal, social, and community lives arising from sexual violence, allowing audiences in Kenya (i.e., the general public, policy makers and duty bearers), and internationally (e.g., in the UK, the National Priority Setting Partnership (which is a national network of survivors), the FCDO, PSVI; policy makers) to gain new insights. The film will portray information about GBSV and engage in creative storytelling to deepen the emotional impact on viewers. The follow-on project also develops and implements an international engagement and communications plan to reach targeted audiences in Kenya and internationally, and to disseminate the Rights for Times research findings to national and international policy makers and duty bearers. Rights for Time has a strong network of national and international partners that will serve as an important network through which we can disseminate the film and the Rights for Time research that underpins it. These impact activities will increase awareness about the realities of sexual violence, involve survivors in the dissemination of Rights for Time Research, raise public awareness about Rights for Time research, and ultimately, reduce sexual violence incidence.

该项目传播了我们的AHRC资助的GCRF时间权利网络（AH/T008091/1）的研究，这是一个跨学科的跨部门研究网络，专注于人道主义保护研究，以实现经济，社会和政策影响。我们在肯尼亚的研究记录了幸存者在性暴力后所遭受的累积伤害。该研究正在研究性暴力的性质，并改变收集证据的方式，以防止犯罪和更好地保护幸存者，从而解决可持续发展目标5和可持续发展目标16。我们的分析表明，一些最持久的伤害与社会对性侵犯的看法有关--谁犯了罪，谁可能是受害者。研究结果挑战了伤害的危机概念，揭示了性暴力幸存者不仅遭受犯罪本身的伤害，而且还受到法律和政策执行不力的伤害。至关重要的是，时间权利研究记录的各种伤害并不是肯尼亚幸存者特有的。在世界各地，性犯罪普遍存在，报告不足，很少受到起诉。在英国，性侵犯案件的起诉率估计不到2%-这是向警方报告的攻击。通过研究获得的理论见解挑战了危机伤害的概念，并适用于全球。为了改变幸存者的长期结果，我们需要开始分享通过我们的项目收集的数据。这个后续项目通过一个参与性纪录片项目传播我们的研究，该项目旨在通过创意经济影响社会对性暴力和幸存者的看法。我们在该项目上的非学术合作伙伴是肯尼亚性暴力幸存者网络和Wangu Kanja基金会。这个后续项目通过提高对我们研究结果的认识来扩大我们研究的影响，这些研究结果揭示了性暴力的现实以及幸存者所承受的累积创伤和伤害。这部参与式影片将为幸存者创造空间，让他们反思自己的个人和集体力量及关切问题。参与性方法的性质是变革性的，因为它作为一种赋权形式发挥作用，促进建立信心，同时消除压迫性信念、标签、陈规定型观念和污名。影响活动增强了幸存者的权能，让他们有发言权，并在这样做的过程中，促进公众如何看待犯罪和幸存者以及当局如何处理这些类型的犯罪的有意义的变化。这部参与式电影将记录幸存者在个人、社会和社区生活中因性暴力而遭受贬值和无能为力的经历，让肯尼亚的观众（即，公众、决策者和责任承担者），以及国际上（例如，在英国，国家优先事项设定伙伴关系（这是一个全国性的幸存者网络），FCDO，PSVI;政策制定者），以获得新的见解。这部电影将描绘有关GBSV的信息，并进行创造性的故事讲述，以加深对观众的情感影响。后续项目还制定和实施了一项国际参与和沟通计划，以接触肯尼亚和国际上的目标受众，并向国家和国际决策者和责任承担者传播“时代权利”的研究结果。“时间权利”拥有强大的国内和国际合作伙伴网络，这将成为一个重要的网络，通过这个网络，我们可以传播这部电影和作为其基础的“时间权利”研究。这些影响活动将提高人们对性暴力现实的认识，让幸存者参与传播“时间权利”研究，提高公众对“时间权利”研究的认识，最终，减少性暴力发生率。