Empathy Dynamics in Conflict Transformation

冲突转化中的同理心动力

• 批准号: ES/K000713/1
• 负责人: Lynne Cameron
• 金额: $ 9.11万
• 依托单位: The Open University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK000713%2F1
• 关键词: Empathy; Dynamics; Conflict; Transformation

Empathy Dynamics in Conflict Transformation is a knowledge exchange project designed to bring academic research into dialogue with conflict transformation experts and practitioners. Applied linguistic research carried out by Professor Lynne Cameron at the Open University, UK investigated how people construct, negotiate or resist empathy with others through dialogue and interaction. That work has produced a model of the interactional dynamics of empathy, insights into strategies that people use to support and block empathy, and methodology for analysing the dynamics of empathy in dialogue and interaction. Initial application to post-conflict reconciliation in Northern Ireland and to conflict transformation interventions in Kenya showed the potential of the research to contribute to the field of conflict transformation. This new project aims to concretise that contribution by working further with the project partner, Responding to Conflict (RTC), a conflict transformation and peace building non-governmental organisation.In its first phase, the project will bring together a network of academics and conflict transformation experts to produce a shared framework that maps models of conflict transformation processes against the research findings about empathy dynamics, to be called the Empathy in Conflict Map (EiC Map). The EiC Map will enable conflict transformation professionals to identify empathy dynamics that might be at play at different stages of conflict transformation and thus to design more effective interventions and training.The second phase will operationalise the Empathy in Conflict Map through collaborative work in Kenya (post-conflict) and Nepal (settlement phase of conflict) with conflict transformation practitioners and parties to conflict. In north-west Kenya, RTC has contributed to successful conflict transformation through the Integrated Peace and Livelihood Project, Diocese of Maralal (IPLP). On-going conflict between tribes of pastoralists has been hugely reduced through road-building and other projects. Our knowledge exchange work there will use people's stories of key moments in conflict transformation, and video of important locations, to understand how empathy worked in this successful case. Since we will be visiting Kenya shortly after the elections planned for December 2012, we will also be able to evaluate the resilience of the conflict transformation during the potentially-sensitive election period. RTC has an ongoing project in Nepal working to reintegrate un-acknowledged former child soldiers in partnership with Child Workers Concerned Centre, Nepal (CWIN). Without a deep understanding between conflicting parties of the positions, interest and needs of each other, effective reconciliation cannot take place. The learning from the LwU project will be drawn upon to map people's positions, interests and needs and help CWIN identify entry points and strategies for encouraging empathy in the dialogue process. Stories and videos from Nepal will be brought to the UK and used in a workshop for Nepali staff of CWIN. Training at the workshop will help with understanding how empathy can be supported and how blocks to empathy can be removed.The third phase of the project will bring conflict transformation experts back together to learn what happened when the Empathy in Conflict Map was used in Kenya and Nepal and to discuss implications. The knowledge exchange cycle will be completed with the production of training materials and activities, and online videos accessible to a wider audience.

冲突转化中的移情动力学是一个知识交流项目，旨在将学术研究与冲突转化专家和实践者进行对话。英国开放大学的琳恩·卡梅伦教授开展了一项应用语言学研究，调查人们如何通过对话和互动与他人建立、协商或抵制同理心。这项工作产生了一个共情互动动态模型，对人们用来支持和阻碍共情的策略的见解，以及分析对话和互动中共情动态的方法。对北爱尔兰冲突后和解和肯尼亚冲突转化干预的初步应用显示了该研究对冲突转化领域作出贡献的潜力。这个新项目旨在通过与项目合作伙伴——冲突应对组织（RTC）——一个冲突转型与和平建设非政府组织——进一步合作，将这一贡献具体化。在第一阶段，该项目将汇集学者和冲突转化专家的网络，以产生一个共享框架，将冲突转化过程模型与移情动力学的研究成果相结合，称为冲突移情图（EiC Map）。EiC地图将使冲突转化专业人员能够识别在冲突转化的不同阶段可能起作用的移情动力，从而设计更有效的干预和培训。第二阶段将通过与冲突转型从业者和冲突各方在肯尼亚（冲突后）和尼泊尔（冲突解决阶段）的合作，实施冲突移情图。在肯尼亚西北部，RTC通过马拉拉尔教区的综合和平与生计项目（IPLP）为成功的冲突转型做出了贡献。通过修路和其他项目，牧民部落之间持续不断的冲突已大大减少。我们在那里的知识交流工作将利用人们在冲突转变中的关键时刻的故事，以及重要地点的视频，来理解同理心在这个成功案例中是如何起作用的。由于我们将在计划于2012年12月举行的选举后不久访问肯尼亚，因此我们也将能够在可能敏感的选举期间评估冲突转型的复原力。RTC在尼泊尔有一个正在进行的项目，与尼泊尔关注童工中心（CWIN）合作，帮助未被承认的前儿童兵重新融入社会。如果冲突各方对彼此的立场、利益和需求没有深刻的了解，就不可能实现有效的和解。从LwU项目中吸取的经验将用于绘制人们的立场、兴趣和需求，并帮助CWIN确定在对话过程中鼓励同理心的切入点和策略。来自尼泊尔的故事和视频将被带到英国，用于CWIN尼泊尔员工的工作坊。研讨会的培训将有助于理解如何支持同理心以及如何消除同理心的障碍。该项目的第三阶段将把冲突转型专家召集到一起，了解在肯尼亚和尼泊尔使用冲突同理心地图时发生了什么，并讨论其影响。知识交流周期将以制作培训材料和活动以及供更广泛的观众观看的在线录象来完成。