Gender Based Violence and Resilience in India: Co-Producing Interdisciplinary Network through storytelling and applied theatre (GenViR Network India)

这个高度协作的跨学科网络详细介绍了一种新颖的应用戏剧方法，该方法将探索和调动资源，以减轻印度贫民窟居住社区中针对年轻和老年移民妇女的性别暴力。基于性别的暴力对妇女和女孩的影响尤其严重，与男子和男孩相比，她们往往遭受更严重的身心健康和社会后果。在所有情况下，针对妇女和女孩的性别暴力被认为是导致不良健康结果的高风险因素，包括心理健康、不良生殖结果、不良性健康、残疾、慢性疼痛、创伤性脑损伤甚至死亡。有一个显着的缺乏研究和洞察力，妇女如何减轻和发展的韧性，在面对这些逆境，以及他们如何建设弹性积极的生活。这是一个不为人知的故事，网络打算探索。复原力的概念作为一种研究工具越来越受欢迎，这是与人们认识到人类社区的复杂性、相互冲突的交叉性和面临的挑战越来越尖锐同时发生的。我们的网络旨在有意义地解决这些挑战的全部复杂性。我们的建议结合了代际方法，探索妇女和男子对解决和减少性别暴力的观点，以促进心理健康和复原力，并采用包容性参与模式，新颖的应用戏剧方法和数字媒体方法。通过应用戏剧和讲故事作为一个总体概念的应用，我们设想这些以艺术为基础的实践将与社区团体一起创造戏剧，目的是邀请变革并调查社区主导的解决方案，以解决不公正，不平等和暴力的生活经历。我们将通过以下方式实现这一目标：（1）探索SDMW如何安全和道德地参与确定减少社区GVB的关键变革领域。(2)从感兴趣的SDMW那里收集故事，讲述他们在性别暴力方面的亲身经历和可能的解决办法。(3)共同开发一系列研讨会，动员生活经验专家和跨部门利益相关者作为可持续和文化相关研究和影响议程的变革推动者。(4)在现有关系中建设能力并建立新的伙伴关系，以加强该网络的研究基础和资金应用并使之多样化。我们的网络将扩大现有的合作伙伴关系，并在英国和印度的学者和研究人员，边缘化的贫民窟居住社区，戏剧从业者和非政府组织的成员之间发展新的合作。我们将探讨对妇女的暴力行为可能采取的形式，她们可以抵制的方式，以及可以寻求帮助的地方。我们的戏剧，讲故事和数字媒体参与将提供超越传统研究方法的机会，以引出新的故事和经验，并以一种可以让边缘化社区的妇女和男子参与解决性别暴力的方式促进对可能解决方案的新思考。我们的网络将影响：（1）通过促进针对性别暴力的有效和切合实际的解决方案，促进这一弱势群体的和平、正义、尊严、福祉和复原力;（2）通过共同创造复原力知识和预防性别暴力战略，直接参与解决性别暴力问题;（3）能力建设，促进预防性和复原力建设措施，以解决贫民窟居住的国内移民社区的性别暴力问题，促进性别平等，社会正义和经济发展;（4）为国家和国际辩论提供信息，讨论文化上适当的性别暴力预防战略，以促进印度/南亚边缘化贫民窟社区的和平、正义和复原力。

This highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary network details a novel applied theatre methodology which will both explore and mobilise resources to mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) against young and older adult migrant women in slum dwelling communities in India. GBV disproportionately affects women and girls who often suffer more serious mental and physical health and social consequences compared to men and boys. In all settings GBV against women and girls is recognised as a high-risk factor for poor health outcomes including mental health, adverse reproductive outcomes, poor sexual health, disability, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury and even death. There is a notable scarcity of research and insight into how women mitigate and develop resilience in the face of these adversities, and how they construct resilience for positive living. This represents an untold story which the network intends to explore. The concept of resilience is gaining traction as a research tool, and this is happening in tandem with a recognition that the complexity of human communities, conflicting intersectionality, and the challenges faced, are growing more acute. Our network intends to meaningfully address these challenges in their full complexity. Our proposal combines an intergenerational approach to exploring perspectives of women and men on addressing and reducing GBV for promoting mental health and resilience with an inclusive participatory model, novel applied theatre methodology and digital media approaches. Through the application of applied theatre and storytelling as an umbrella concept, we envisage that these arts-based practice will create theatre with community groups with the aim of inviting change and investigating community-led solutions to the lived experiences of injustice, inequity, and violence. We will undertake this through: (1) Exploring how SDMW can be safely and ethically engaged in identifying critical areas for change in reducing GVB in their communities. (2) Eliciting stories from interested SDMW about their lived experiences of GBV and possible solutions. (3) Co-developing a series of workshops to mobilise lived experience experts and cross-sector stakeholders as agents of change for sustainable and culturally relevant research and impact agenda. (4) Building capacity in existing relationships and establishing new partnerships to strengthen and diversify the network's research base and funding applications. Our network will extend existing partnerships and develop new collaborations between UK and Indian academics and researchers, members of marginalised slum dwelling communities, theatre practitioners and NGOs. We will explore the forms that violence against women may take, ways they can resist it, and where help can be sought. Our theatrical, storytelling and digital media engagement will offer opportunities over and above conventional research methods to elicit new stories and experiences and catalyse fresh thinking about possible solutions in a way which can engage both women and men from marginalised communities in addressing GBV. Our network will impact on: (1) promoting peace, justice, dignity, wellbeing and resilience for this vulnerable community by facilitating effective and context-relevant solutions to GBV; (2) direct engagement in addressing GBV through co-creation of knowledge on resilience, and GBV prevention of strategies; (3) building capacity, facilitating preventative and resilience building measures to address GBV in slum dwelling internal migrant communities to promote gender equality, social justice and economic development; (4) inform national and international debates on culturally appropriate GBV prevention strategies for promoting peace, justice and resilience of marginalised slum dwelling communities in India/ South Asia.