FLEECOIN Boko Haram Counterinsurgency: Fleeing Men and Boys

FLEECOIN项目解决了反叛乱(COIN)研究中的一个严重空白：COIN运动对平民人口的性别影响，以及男子和男孩为躲避与COIN有关的基于性别的暴力(GBV)而采取的战略。该项目以这一创新为重点，深入探讨了针对尼日利亚博科圣地(BH)的硬币案例研究，为知识作出了两项核心贡献。首先，FLEECOIN为新出现的学术做出了贡献，扩大了对GBV的研究重点，将男性和男孩的经历包括在内。其次，这个项目加深了我们对各州COIN运动对平民的影响的理解，以及对脆弱男性应对特别是逃离的应对机制的理解。在这里，它的主要重点是理解飞行是平民男子和青少年男孩对硬币的反应。FLEECOIN研究被设计为定性案例研究，将涉及到尼日利亚的实地考察。主要收集数据的主要手段将是深入访谈专家、逃离社区的男子和青少年男孩、参与与博科圣地有关的硬币行动的士兵以及男子和男孩逃离的社区的居民。未能解决暴力冲突期间被驱逐者的痛苦对幸存者产生深远的后果，因为这使他们得不到援助和支持。这项研究恰逢欧洲地平线工作方案第二组“文化、创造力和包容性社会”，specificallyHORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS01-05：性别与社会、经济和文化赋权，感兴趣的是性别和其他社会类别之间的交叉以及多种形式的歧视和劣势的累积影响，以及按性别划分的权力等级如何导致系统性的性别歧视。

The FLEECOIN project addresses a serious gap in research on counterinsurgency (COIN): the gendered effects that COIN campaignshave on the civilian population, and the strategies employed by men and boys to escape the gender-based violence (GBV) related toCOIN. With this innovative focus, and exploring in depth the case study of COIN against Boko Haram (BH) in Nigeria, the project makestwo core contributions to knowledge. First, FLEECOIN contributes to emergent scholarship that amplifies the research focus on GBVto include the experiences of men and boys. Secondly, this project deepens and nuances our understanding of the effects of states'COIN campaigns on civilians, and of the coping mechanisms used by vulnerable males in response, especially fleeing. Here, itsprimary focus is on understanding flight as a response to COIN by civilian men and adolescent boys. The FLEECOIN research isdesigned as a qualitative case study and will involve fieldwork in Nigeria. The major instrument for primary data collection will be indepthinterviews with experts, men and adolescent boys who have fled their communities, soldiers who have taken part in BokoHaram-related COIN operations, and residents of communities from where men and boys fled. Failure to address the suffering of malevictims during violent conflicts has profound consequences for the survivor because it excludes them from assistance and support.The research coincides with Horizon Europe work programme cluster 2 "Culture, creativity and inclusive society", specificallyHORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS01-05: Gender and social, economic and cultural empowerment, interested in intersectionsbetween gender and other social categories and the cumulative effect of multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantages, and inhow gendered power hierarchies lead to systematic GBV.