RUI: Rights, Religion, and Community: Local and Global Discourses of Gender Violence

1990年代将性别暴力定义为侵犯人权的运动提出了关于法律的文化框架以及普遍的权利话语与文化和宗教差异之间的关系的基本问题。这个项目考察了夏威夷一个小镇上性别暴力的三种解决方法。一种做法是基于权利的理念，并将婚姻内殴打行为的法律定义作为一种犯罪；第二种做法是福音派基督教，基于婚姻和家庭的宗教观念，力求通过神的援助来维护婚姻和发展不那么暴力的关系；第三种做法是夏威夷土著解决问题程序，它源于土著人民努力恢复更多双方同意的、以社区为基础的冲突解决方式。这些办法代表了基于民主和法治、基于宗教信仰和基于不同文化的社区的社会正义的相互竞争的范例。研究人员将研究不同范式所涉及的人和责任的隐含类别，以及差异与关于性别暴力和人权的全球辩论的关系。运用深入访谈和法律诉讼案例分析的民族志方法，收集文件和培训材料，并通过参与者观察，研究人员将增进我们对这三种社会正义范式往往相互对立、有时相互构成的本质的理解。

The 1990s movement to define gender violence as a human rights violation raises basic questions about the cultural frame of the law, and the relationship between universal discourses of rights and cultural and religious difference. This project examines three approaches to gender violence in a small town in Hawaii. One approach is based on the idea of rights and the use of the legal definition of battering within marriage as a crime; the second, evangelical Christian, is based on the religious conception of marriage and the family and seeks to preserve the marriage and develop a less violent relationship through divine assistance; the third, a Native Hawaiian problem-solving process, grows out of efforts to recuperate more consensual, community-grounded forms of conflict resolution by indigenous peoples. These approaches represent competing paradigms of social justice, based on democracy and the rule of law, on religious faith, and on culturally distinct communities. The researcher will study the implicit categories of persons and responsibilities involved in the different paradigms, and the relation of differences to global debates about gender violence and human rights. Using ethnographic methods of in-depth interviews as well as case analysis of legal proceedings, collect documents and training materials and through participant observation, the researcher will advance our understanding of the often antagonistic, sometimes mutually constituted nature of these three paradigms of social justice.