Embodying Peace, Navigating Violence: A network of auto-ethnographers in Iraq and Palestine

该研究网络将探索和扩大关于冲突和不安全中体现和平概念的知识。它将研究生活在不信任和冲突中的妇女在生理层面体验和平与暴力气氛的手段，以及她们在穿越所居住的不断变化的地形时采用的不同应对策略。该网络以边缘妇女为重点，将对身体和情感不安全的不同影响带来交叉和具体的理解。此外，通过建立一个研究网络，重点关注多重边缘化妇女的经历，扩大她们的声音，并为创造妇女可以跨越政治和宗教分歧参与的安全空间制定一套规范和价值观，它将为建设和平举措提供更细致、相关和适用的方法。因此，通过创造性的方法，如自动民族志日志，身体映射和协作学习圈，研究将解决以下问题：-和平可以/或可能是什么样的妇女生活在恐怖，冲突和/或殖民主义的背景下？- 在持续的暴力中如何体现安全感？- 妇女采用和部署了哪些机制来体现和平，使她们能够在日常恐怖、不信任和暴力的重压下度过日常生活？该研究网络将与主要调查人员合作，由发展研究所（IDS）、伊拉克和巴勒斯坦的妇女社区行为者（她们将担任自我民族志研究人员）和成员网络“反思安全”组成，其中包括调解资源、和平直接、更安全的世界和联合王国联合国协会等组织。通过这一合作，我们将产生背景知情的研究-跨越地理界限-植根于当地文化，历史，身份，知识和社区，以及那些在学习，政策和实践中心最被忽视的人产生的知识将传播给建设和平部门的活动家，学者，决策者和从业人员。将通过每月的学习圈、博客和研讨会，以及在三次圆桌会议期间，并作为一个在建设和平中纳入和体现方法的实践者工具包和一份同行审查期刊产出，加强和宣传该网络，传播学习成果。此外，通过与妇女社区行动者共同开发解决这些研究问题的方法，这一研究网络将建立一个平台和工具包，我们可以从中发展和扩大对体现和平的研究-以非殖民地研究和实践为中心。因此，研究结果和方法将在进一步的研究和网络活动中得到实施，这些活动将把实现和平与安全作为基本人权，并作为在脆弱和受冲突影响的环境中建立根深蒂固的信任和未来稳定的核心手段。

This research network will explore and expand knowledge on the concept of embodied peace amidst conflict and insecurity. It will examine the means through which women living amid distrust and conflict experience atmospheres of peace and violence at a physiological level, and the different coping strategies they employ as they navigate through the shifting terrains they inhabit. Focusing on women at the margins, this network will bring an intersectional - and embodied - understanding to the differing impacts of physical and emotional insecurity. Additionally, by establishing a research network focusing on the experiences of multiply marginalised women, amplifying their voices and generating a set of norms and values for creating safe spaces in which women can engage across political and religious divides, it will contribute more nuanced, relevant and applicable approaches to peacebuilding initiatives. Through creative methodologies such as auto-ethnographic journaling, body-mapping and collaborative learning circles, the research will therefore address the following questions:- What can/or could peace feel like for women living within contexts of terror, conflict and/or colonialisms? - How can a felt sense of security be embodied amidst enduring violence? - What mechanisms are employed and deployed by women to embody peace and so that they may navigate their everyday lives under the weight of everyday terror, distrust and violence? Working in collaboration with the principal investigators, the research network will consist of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), women community actors in Iraq and Palestine who will be engaged as autoethnographic researchers, and the members network Rethinking Security, which includes the organisations Conciliation Resources, Peace Direct, Saferworld and UNA-UK among others. Through this collaboration, we will generate contextually informed research - across geographic boundaries - that is rooted in local cultures, histories, identities, knowledges and communities, and the knowledge produced by those who have been most overlooked in centres of learning, policy and praxis will be disseminated to activists, academics, policymakers and practitioners in the peacebuilding sector. The network will be strengthened and publicised, and learnings disseminated, through monthly learning circles, blogs and seminars, as well as during three roundtable events and as one practitioner toolkit for incorporating and embodied approach in peacebuilding and one peer-reviewed journal output. Moreover, through co-developing methodologies to address these research questions with the women community actors, this research network will establish a platform and toolkit from which we can grow and expand in the study of embodied peace - centralising decolonial research and praxis throughout. As such, the findings and methodologies will be implemented in further research and networking activities that address the realisation of embodied peace and security as fundamental human rights and a core means of establishing deep rooted trust and future stability in fragile and conflict affected contexts.