Violence, Security, Peace Network

暴力、安全、和平网络是一个跨学科、跨部门的倡议，代表来自世界4个区域13个不同国家的21个机构和组织。它将学者和实践者聚集在一起，解决试图找到摆脱战争和其他形式的有组织暴力和不安全的社会中的信任问题。下列问题指导网络活动：这些地理上分散的团体在建设和平方面可以相互教给对方什么？而且，比较背景之间的差异教给我们什么关于战后建立信任的可能性和局限性？网络成员接受世界领先学术机构的理论和应用方法培训；它们还在机构加强、衡量和问责制的实际应用方面提供了丰富的经验。VSP网络开展的协作工作支持联合国可持续发展目标16，致力于在减少一切形式的暴力、在武装冲突中招募和使用儿童以及加强法治方面产生明显影响。PI和CO-I从领导力和协作团队建设方面的应用经验和专业培训中汲取经验，以指导该计划的设计。PI自己的研究侧重于战争后人际信任的建立，并指导理论框架-即断言这是建立可持续和平的原始因素。VSP网络内的合作将处理信任与建设和平之间关系所固有的两种紧张关系。首先，在战争和类似战争的暴力背景下经历的背叛侵蚀了社会各阶层的信任。第二，不解决信任问题，武装冲突将不可避免地持续和重新出现。战争和暴力助长不信任，而不信任又助长战争和暴力。该网络将动员其成员丰富的专业知识，并促成将涉及并影响该领域的从业人员和方案设计者的合作。它采用参与性决策框架，通过行动示范它打算在其成员国的东道国促进的各种做法。这一包容性做法的一个试金石是包括前非国家武装行为者和退伍军人，他们已经从冲突中过渡，现在通过致力于支持这些社会变革的组织指导他人。我们研究了建设和平背景下的“re”类经验：重新融入社会、重新融入社会、返回、康复和和解。除了最初的VSP网络成员外，PI和CO-I将利用现有的丰富机构资源。该网络将与伦敦政治经济学院IDEAS开展对话，后者正计划与联合国人类安全信托基金（UN Trust Fund for Human Security）合作，与联合国机构和企业建立伙伴关系。我们还将与UKRI GCRF性别、正义与安全中心以及伦敦政治经济学院冲突、正义与和平平台协调，通过与全球南方研究人员的在线活动促进知识交流，增加我们研究结果的影响和覆盖面。合作中心将利用洛斯安第斯大学管理学院跨学科发展研究中心提供的机构支持。VPS网络将发展经验和实证基础，为人文学科（伦理学、道德哲学、基于艺术的参与方法）和其他学科（如人类学和公共政策）的理论和实践做出重大贡献。它将对那些每天致力于在广泛的比较背景下促进建立信任和可持续和平倡议的人产生近期和长期影响。

The Violence Security Peace (VSP) Network represents an interdisciplinary, cross-sector initiative with representatives from 21 institutions and organizations in 13 different countries throughout 4 regions of the world. It brings together academics and practitioners to address the issue of trust in societies trying to find their way out of war and other forms of organized violence and insecurity. The following questions guide Network activities: what can these geographically dispersed groups teach each other about peacebuilding? And, what do the differences between the comparative contexts teach us about the possibilities and limits of trust-building after war more generally? Network members have theoretical and applied methodological training from world leading academic institutions; they also deliver a wealth of experience in the practical application of institutional strengthening, measurement, and accountability. The collaborative work produced by the VSP Network supports UN SDG 16 goals by working in service of a demonstrable impact on reducing all forms of violence, the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict, and strengthening the rule of law.The PI and CO-I draw from applied experience and professional training in leadership and collaborative team building to guide this initiative's design. The PI's own research focuses on interpersonal trust-building in the aftermath of war factors, and guides the theoretical framing - i.e., the assertion that this is the primordial factor for building sustainable peace. The collaborations within the VSP Network will take on the two tensions inherent to the relationship between trust and peacebuilding. First, the betrayals experienced within the context of war and war-like violence corrode trust at all levels of society. Second, armed conflict will inevitably endure and re-emerge without solving the problems of trust. War and violence fuels distrust and distrust fuels war and violence.The Network will mobilize the wealth of expertise of its members and result in collaborations that will involve and impact practitioners and program designers in this field. It employs a participatory decision-making framework, modelling through action the kinds of practices it intends to foster in the host countries of its members. A touchstone of this inclusive approach involves including former non-state armed actors and military combat veterans who have transitioned from conflict and now mentor others through organizations dedicated to supporting these social transformations. We examine experiences in the context of peacebuilding classed under 're': reintegration, reinsertion, return, rehabilitation, and reconciliation.In addition to the initial VSP Network membership, the PI and CO-I will draw from the wealth of available institutional resources. The Network will operate in dialogue with LSE IDEAS, which is planning with the UN Trust Fund for Human Security to implement a partnership with UN agencies and businesses. We will also coordinate with the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub and the LSE Conflict, Justice and Peace Platform to promote knowledge exchange through online events with Global South researchers and increase the impact and reach of our findings. The CO-I will engage with the institutional supports made available by the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Development (CIDER) at the Universidad de los Andes Management School. The VPS Network will develop the experiential and empirical base to make significant contributions to theory and practice in a variety of disciplines in the humanities (ethics, moral philosophy, arts-based methodologies of engagement) and beyond (e.g., anthropology and public policy). It will result in near- and long-term impact for those working everyday to facilitate trust-building and sustainable peace initiatives across a wide range of comparative contexts.