From Data to Knowledge: Understanding peace and conflict from afar (seminar series)

从数据到知识：从远处理解和平与冲突（研讨会系列）

• 批准号: ES/N008367/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Fisher
• 金额: $ 3.65万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN008367%2F1
• 关键词: Data; Knowledge; Understanding; peace; conflict

This series begins with a set of questions which UN peacekeepers, aid workers, governments, researchers and conflict analysts are increasingly troubled by: how do we know what we know about fragile and conflict-affected regions and how far do our understandings reflect - and take account of - the views and perspectives of communities living in these regions? Bringing together leading scholars and partners in the worlds of policy and practice - including Save the Children, the UK Government (DFID and FCO), OECD and Somalia NGO Consortium (Somalia NGOC), Nairobi - the series will provide a critical and innovative set of fora for analysing how conflict knowledge is generated and disseminated - and with what implications for research and policy in the UK and abroad.This exploration comes in the context of a growing focus by Western governments and organizations on working on, and in, fragile and conflict-affected regions. The UK Government - now legally committed to spending at least 0.7% of GNI on international development - has steadily re-focused its aid portfolio around fragile states since the later 2000s and these countries now absorb over one-third of the DFID budget. Similar trends are apparent among other Western aid donors and organizations as well as among NGOs and researchers whose funding is often tied to these bodies and their agendas. Along with the UN, the militaries of developing states are also increasingly involved in peacekeeping and statebuilding exercises in fragile regions and polities.Alongside these developments, however, have emerged a number of issues which actively limit Western actors' ability to gain direct access to - and understandings of - communities living in fragile contexts. The growing number of UN and aid workers now being targeted by criminal and terrorist groups in conflict zones has led most Western organizations to introduce risk management procedures which ultimately reduce direct interaction between the 'international' and the 'local'. This includes the creation of heavily-fortified aid 'compounds' to house aid workers and their families, the collection of data from afar (via drones or other technologies, for example) and the remote management of projects. Thus DFID's Somalia Office (a Project Partner for the series) is based in neighbouring Kenya. This culture of risk aversion has also steadily come to curtail the ability of Western researchers and NGOs to live and work in regions viewed as too remote or dangerous by insurance providers, ethics committees or managers. Thus these communities also increasingly rely on ever-distant chains of 'local' interlocutors and mediators to gather data or implement projects - in a Western political context where ensuring clear and measurable developmental results for all aid disbursed is paramount.This series of research seminars will pose and engage with several key questions and concerns which emerge from these various paradoxes. Most prominently - what tools and methodologies can be used to collect conflict data remotely and to what extent can they replace or substitute more direct forms of information-gathering? To what extent can - or should - different social and cultural understandings be reflected in the collection and interpretation of 'local knowledge'? What role do local actors play in mediating or resisting the generation of knowledge on - and in - their communities? How is conflict 'data' transposed into conflict 'knowledge' and how far does Western policy and research on conflict regions take account of local perspectives?The series engages with a prominent set of debates in contemporary policy-making circles and global scholarship across a range of disciplines, notably Politics, International Relations, Development Studies, Economics and Anthropology. The participation of early-career researchers and scholars from the developing world is a key focus of the series and enhances its strength and credibility.

本系列以一系列联合国维和人员、援助工作者、政府、研究人员和冲突分析人员日益困扰的问题开始：我们如何知道我们对脆弱和受冲突影响地区的了解，以及我们的理解在多大程度上反映并考虑了生活在这些地区的社区的观点和观点？汇集了政策和实践领域的领先学者和合作伙伴-包括拯救儿童组织，英国政府（国际发展部和外交和联邦事务部）、经合组织和索马里非政府组织联合会（索马里非政府组织），内罗毕-该系列将提供一系列重要和创新的论坛，分析如何产生和传播冲突知识-以及对英国和国外的研究和政策有什么影响。这种探索是在西方政府和组织越来越关注脆弱和受冲突影响地区的背景下进行的。英国政府--目前在法律上承诺将国民总收入的至少0.7%用于国际发展--自21世纪后半叶以来，一直将其援助组合的重点放在脆弱国家，这些国家现在吸收了英国国际发展部预算的三分之一以上。类似的趋势在其他西方援助捐助者和组织以及非政府组织和研究人员中也很明显，他们的资金往往与这些机构及其议程挂钩。沿着联合国，发展中国家的军队也越来越多地参与脆弱地区和政体的维和和国家建设活动。然而，伴随这些发展，出现了一些问题，这些问题严重限制了西方行为体直接接触和了解生活在脆弱环境中的社区的能力。越来越多的联合国和援助工作人员现在成为冲突地区犯罪和恐怖组织的目标，这导致大多数西方组织引入风险管理程序，最终减少了“国际”和“当地”之间的直接互动。这包括建立高度设防的援助“大院”，为援助人员及其家人提供住所，从远处收集数据（例如通过无人机或其他技术）以及远程管理项目。因此，国际发展部的索马里办事处（该系列的项目伙伴）设在邻国肯尼亚。这种规避风险的文化也逐渐削弱了西方研究人员和非政府组织在保险公司、道德委员会或管理人员认为过于偏远或危险的地区生活和工作的能力。因此，这些社区也越来越多地依赖于“当地”对话者和调解人的遥远链条来收集数据或实施项目-在西方政治背景下，确保所有援助的明确和可衡量的发展成果是至关重要的。这一系列研究研讨会将提出并参与从这些各种悖论中出现的几个关键问题和关注。最重要的是-可以使用哪些工具和方法远程收集冲突数据，它们在多大程度上可以取代或替代更直接的信息收集形式？不同的社会和文化理解可以或应该在多大程度上反映在“本地知识”的收集和解释中？地方行为者在调解或抵制关于其社区和在其社区内产生知识方面发挥什么作用？冲突“数据”如何转化为冲突“知识”？西方对冲突地区的政策和研究在多大程度上考虑到了当地的观点？该系列涉及当代决策界和全球学术界的一系列重要辩论，涉及一系列学科，特别是政治学，国际关系，发展研究，经济学和人类学。来自发展中国家的早期职业研究人员和学者的参与是该系列的一个主要重点，并增强了其实力和可信度。

项目成果

Reproducing remoteness? States, internationals and the co-constitution of aid 'bunkerization' in the East African periphery

再现遥远？

• DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2016.1260209
• 发表时间: 2016
• 期刊: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
• 影响因子: 2
• 作者: Fisher J

From Data to Knowledge: Understanding peace and conflict from afar (seminar series)

从数据到知识：从远处理解和平与冲突（研讨会系列）

• DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2017.9.10
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Impact
• 作者: Fisher J

Knowledge production in/about conflict and intervention: finding 'facts', telling 'truth'

• DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2017.1287635
• 发表时间: 2017-01-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF INTERVENTION AND STATEBUILDING
• 影响因子: 2
• 作者: de Guevara, Berit Bliesemann;Kostic, Roland
• 通讯作者: Kostic, Roland

AMISOM and the regional construction of a failed state in Somalia

非索特派团和索马里失败国家的区域建设

• DOI: 10.1093/afraf/ady040
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: African Affairs
• 影响因子: 2.8
• 作者: Fisher J

Knowing Through Needlework: curating the difficult knowledge of conflict textiles

通过针线活了解：整理冲突纺织品的困难知识

• DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2019.1692566
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Critical Military Studies
• 作者: Andrä C