The effect of the UN's R2P discourse on the patterns of violence in civil wars. Field: R2P, political violence, civil war.

联合国保护责任话语对内战暴力模式的影响。

• 批准号: 2266902
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2266902
• 关键词: effect; UN; R2P; discourse; patterns

For my MPhil research project, which I will hopefully be able to extend during a DPhil, I intend to study the effect of the language used by the international community when discussing humanitarian intervention on the pattern of political violence during civil wars. The concept of the 'Responsibility to Protect' (R2P) and its third 'pillar' which sanctions the use of coercive force by the international community for the purpose of protecting civilian populations has met with wide controversy among United Nations member states. Disagreement on the principle and operationalization of the third pillar is reflected in the international community's mixed responses to the recent conflicts in Libya and Syria. I intend this research project to illuminate the effect, if any, of the international community's use of terms such as 'genocide', 'mass atrocity', and 'humanitarian crisis' on the actions of violent conflict actors. My idea is inspired by, amongst others, the argument made by Scott Straus in Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa. He analyses the central importance to genocidal violence of what he calls 'founding narratives', which he intriguingly says are "akin to...a cognitive map that guides decision making". From a domestic to an international perspective, Rogers Brubaker and David D. Laitin in a 1998 article in the 'Annual Review of Sociology' argue for recognizing the role of the international community's language of ethnic nationalism in increasing the incidence of ethnic conflicts. Once one grants that discourse can influence the pattern of political violence, I suggest that an important question appears about the effect of the language of humanitarian intervention and R2P on contemporaneous conflicts. I expect to use both quantitative and qualitative research methods. After preliminary research and singling out the thesis question, I would decide on the number of countries, conflicts and period of time to focus on. I would then identify key speeches of international leaders and UN ambassadors, as well as communications of the conflict actors. Using my knowledge of political philosophy and security studies, I would be able to code key events and speeches into a coherent database. I would then use the quantitative skills developed by undergraduate courses in statistics and advanced by the 'Research Design andApproaches to Research' component of the MPhil to find correlations in the data and interpret them into a useful result.

对于我的MPHIL研究项目，我希望在DPHIL期间能够扩展该项目，我打算在讨论人道主义干预对内战期间政治暴力模式时研究国际社会使用的语言的效果。 “保护”责任（R2P）及其第三个“支柱”的概念，该概念制定了国际社会对保护平民的强制性武力的概念，这在联合国成员国之间引起了广泛争议。关于第三支柱的原则和操作的分歧反映在国际社会对利比亚和叙利亚最近冲突的混合反应中。我打算这项研究项目，以阐明国际社会对“种族灭绝”，“大规模暴行”和“人道主义危机”等术语的影响（如果有的话）。我的想法的灵感来自斯科特·斯特劳斯（Scott Straus）在制作和揭露国家的论点：战争，领导和种族灭绝现代非洲。他分析了他所谓的“创始叙事”的种族灭绝暴力行为的核心重要性，他有趣地说，这与……指导决策的认知地图类似于……”。从国内到国际观点，罗杰斯·布鲁贝克（Rogers Brubaker）和戴维·莱丁（David D.一旦有人提出话语会影响政治暴力的模式，我建议一个重要的问题就会出现关于人道主义干预语言和R2P对同期冲突的影响的重要问题。我希望同时使用定量和定性研究方法。经过初步研究并提出论文问题，我将决定关注的国家，冲突和时间段内的数量。然后，我将确定国际领导人和联合国大使的关键演讲，以及冲突参与者的沟通。利用我对政治哲学和安全研究的了解，我将能够将关键事件和演讲编码为连贯的数据库。然后，我将使用统计学本科课程开发的定量技能，并通过“研究设计和研究”组成部分的“研究设计和应用”来查找数据中的相关性，并将其解释为有用的结果。