The Peaceful Return of Victims of Forced Displacement (PEACERETURN)

被迫流离失所受害者和平回归 (PEACERETURN)

• 批准号: EP/Z000408/1
• 负责人: Neophytos Loizides
• 金额: $ 294.79万
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FZ000408%2F1
• 关键词: Peaceful; Return; Victims; Forced; Displacement

PEACERETURN focuses on victims of forced displacement and their decisions to return home. Despite the growing consensus among governments, international NGOs, and frequently victims of displacement themselves of the value of peaceful voluntary return, the proportion of actual returnees worldwide has been in significant decline in the past three decades. We know very little about why voluntary return is declining and what leads to partially successful returns or failures. In PEACERETURN, I investigate how displaced persons decide whether to return home or not to return and ask why some return, despite the odds and without reigniting past conflict. In order to understand this complex issue, I will develop a global database of conflict-induced displacements and draw on representative cases around the world to provide generalizable knowledge on the mediation processes, community mobilization efforts and micro-institutional designs more likely to support returnees. I propose a comparative research program that investigates how return is negotiated and implemented in ways that are voluntary, peaceful, and sustainable in seven countries: Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Ukraine representing different stages of return, prohibitive conditions, and outcomes. This multi-method interdisciplinary research will cut across comparative politics, social psychology, and conflict and gender studies, using a combination of archival research, expert interviews, surveys and experiments, citizen-led mediations/simulations, and focused comparisons of case studies. By investigating a central question in refugee studies-why and how some displaced manage to return home-the project will inform regional and global responses to forced migration.

PEACERETURN重点关注被迫流离失所的受害者及其返回家园的决定。尽管各国政府、国际非政府组织和经常流离失所的受害者本身越来越认识到和平自愿返回的价值，但在过去三十年里，世界各地实际回返者的比例一直在大幅下降。我们对自愿返回的原因以及导致部分成功或失败的原因知之甚少。在PEACERETURN，我调查了流离失所者如何决定是否返回家园，并询问为什么有些人不顾困难，在不重新引发过去冲突的情况下返回家园。为了了解这一复杂问题，我将建立一个冲突导致流离失所的全球数据库，并利用世界各地的代表性案例，提供关于调解进程、社区动员努力和更有可能支持回返者的微观机构设计的概括性知识。我提出一个比较研究项目，调查在阿塞拜疆、保加利亚、哥伦比亚、塞浦路斯、埃塞俄比亚、卢旺达和乌克兰这七个国家如何以自愿、和平和可持续的方式谈判和实施返回，这些国家代表着返回的不同阶段、令人望而却步的条件和结果。这项多学科交叉的研究将跨越比较政治学、社会心理学以及冲突和性别研究，使用档案研究、专家访谈、调查和实验、公民主导的调解/模拟以及案例研究的重点比较。通过调查难民研究中的一个核心问题--一些流离失所的人为什么以及如何设法返回家园--该项目将为区域和全球对被迫移徙的反应提供信息。