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Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production in the Struggle for Peace with Social Justice: Case Studies from Four Conflict-Affected Contexts

争取和平与社会正义斗争中的社会运动学习和知识生产：四个受冲突影响背景的案例研究

基本信息

批准号：
ES/R00403X/1
负责人：
Mario Novelli
金额：
$ 62.64万
依托单位：
University of Sussex
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FR00403X%2F1
关键词：
Social Movement Learning Knowledge Production

项目摘要

This participatory, co-produced research seeks to understand how social movements, in some of the most complex and conflict affected contexts in the world, build knowledge, develop strategy, and educate in the pursuance of peace with social justice. Four participatory case-studies of four very different types of social movement, in Colombia, Nepal, Turkey and South Africa will be explored through a process of participatory, collaborative research that is carried out in close collaboration with the respective social movements. The case studies will then be synthesized to draw out comparative insights on the learning and knowledge production strategies of social movements in contexts of conflict. Recent research on 'peacebuilding' has noted the lack of participation of civil society in peacebuilding processes, which results in peace agreements and peacebuilding processes that while ending the armed conflict, often fail to remedy the underlying factors that produced the conflict in the first place. At the heart of the drivers of conflict in many contexts is inequality, in its multiple economic, political, cultural dimensions: unequal access to resources, land, food, housing, education, healthcare, and unequal treatment before the law and/or the political system, particularly for different cultural and ethnic communities. These are precisely the areas that many grassroots social movements seek to mobilise in favour of. Strengthening social movements seeking to pressurise states to redress inequalities, is therefore a crucial peacebuilding measure and an important area of research that has hitherto received very little attention.The social movements, who are core partners in the proposed research, are NOMADESC, a grassroots NGO based in Colombia; The Housing Assembly, a grassroots movement from South Africa; The HDK (Peoples' Democratic Congress), a coalition of social movements in Turkey; and the Madhesh Foundation, Nepal, an organisation that works with and for the excluded Madhesh community. Each movement, in different ways, advocates with and for marginalized communities seeking to defend and extend their basic rights to education, health, housing, life, dignity and equal treatment before the law. Each movement, to different degrees, has also been victim to state repression, violence against it members and activists, and sustained surveillance and persecution.By focusing on the four social movements in diverse political and cultural contexts, we will develop an understanding of the multitude of ways social movements sustain and influence the agenda of social justice in conflict-affected contexts. Within each movement, we will analyse the processes of self-organisation (Fuchs, 2006), carry out 'movement mapping' to identify movement dynamics (e.g. organisations, memberships, ecological interconnections, patterns of mobilisation and stages), strategies (e.g. agenda setting, network ties, communication, movement plan of action) and actions (e.g. demonstration, strikes, boycotts, negotiations, parallel institutional structures). We will pay particular attention to how they cope with security challenges, how they engage in international solidarity and how they communicate with each other and raise awareness through different technological and pedagogical devices. The research will make an important contribution to research on social movements, research on peacebuilding and research on education in social movements. Furthermore, the research will have real value for the four social movements under investigation, allowing for a period of self reflection and strategic development. It will also feed into real world debates on the struggles, strategies and knowledge production processes of social movements around the world in a period where increasing inequality, conflict and rising authoritarianism necessitate the strengthening of progressive social movements to build more sustainable and socially just societies.

这项参与性的、共同制作的研究试图了解社会运动如何在世界上一些最复杂和受冲突影响的环境中建立知识、制定战略和进行教育，以追求社会正义的和平。在哥伦比亚、尼泊尔、土耳其和南非，将通过与各自社会运动密切合作开展的参与性合作研究进程，探讨四个不同类型社会运动的参与性案例研究。然后将综合案例研究，以得出关于冲突情况下社会运动的学习和知识生产战略的比较见解。最近关于“建设和平”的研究指出，民间社会缺乏对建设和平进程的参与，这导致了和平协定和建设和平进程，虽然结束了武装冲突，但往往不能纠正首先产生冲突的根本因素。在许多情况下，冲突驱动因素的核心是多个经济、政治和文化层面的不平等：获得资源、土地、食物、住房、教育、医疗保健的机会不平等，以及在法律和/或政治制度面前的不平等待遇，特别是不同文化和族裔社区的不平等待遇。这些正是许多草根社会运动试图动员起来支持的领域。因此，加强寻求向国家施压以纠正不平等的社会运动，是一项关键的建设和平措施，也是一个重要的研究领域，迄今很少受到关注。在拟议的研究中，社会运动是核心合作伙伴，包括位于哥伦比亚的草根非政府组织NOMADESC；来自南非的草根运动住房大会；土耳其社会运动联盟HDK(人民民主大会)；以及尼泊尔马德赫什基金会，一个与被排除在外的马德赫什社区合作的组织。每一次运动都以不同的方式倡导边缘化社区，争取捍卫和扩大他们在教育、健康、住房、生命、尊严和法律面前平等待遇的基本权利。每一场运动都在不同程度上受到国家镇压、对其成员和活动家的暴力以及持续的监视和迫害。通过关注不同政治和文化背景下的四个社会运动，我们将加深对社会运动在受冲突影响的背景下维持和影响社会正义议程的多种方式的理解。在每个运动中，我们将分析自我组织的过程(Fuchs，2006)，进行“运动图谱”，以确定运动动态(例如，组织、成员资格、生态互连、动员模式和阶段)、战略(例如，议程设置、网络联系、沟通、运动行动计划)和行动(例如，示威、罢工、抵制、谈判、平行体制结构)。我们将特别关注它们如何应对安全挑战，它们如何参与国际团结，以及它们如何通过不同的技术和教学手段相互沟通和提高认识。这项研究将对社会运动研究、建设和平研究和社会运动中的教育研究作出重要贡献。此外，这项研究将对调查中的四个社会运动具有真正的价值，允许进行一段时间的自我反省和战略发展。它还将纳入关于世界各地社会运动的斗争、战略和知识生产过程的现实世界辩论，在这个时期，日益加剧的不平等、冲突和日益高涨的威权主义要求加强进步的社会运动，以建立更可持续和更公正的社会。