Coordination Funds

我们的研究部门将对宽容以及与宽容的概念和实践相关的多方面挑战进行协作性和程序性调查，以便不仅对宽容的困难，而且对宽容的可能性有新的认识。调查将以不赞成-尊重宽容模型为指导，该模型植根于多个学科的重要见解，特别是政治、社会和道德哲学以及社会心理学。虽然我们相信该模型非常适合服务于这一指导功能，但在调查过程中，该模型本身将受到考验。它可以进一步发展（规范、表述和修改），也可以修改，如果经受不住考验，甚至可以拒绝和替换。该研究股的主要目标是建立一个理论上连贯和经验上强有力的框架，以了解多元社会中宽容的基础、动态和（有意和无意的）结果。为了应对与宽容的概念和实践相关的挑战的多面性，研究部门汇集了一个多学科的研究人员小组，对不赞成-尊重模型进行测试，并为它或它的修订和改进版本建立一个令人信服的基于证据的案例（或者用一个更好的替代方案来取代它，以防该模型未能经受住我们严格研究的考验）。研究股的多学科组成将使我们能够涵盖广泛的有关方面或方面。我们将考虑内容（例如，宗教、种族、政治、性别或性身份是否受到威胁）、背景（例如，群体间关系的更广泛的民族或文化背景）和时间视角（例如，即时因果关系以及长期发展）。我们的共同努力将在不同学科的综合、相互支持的见解的基础上，通过强有力的概念手段来理解宽容，推动艺术的发展。我们相信，它不仅将为西方社会及其他国家的科学认识，而且将为公众认识宽容铺平道路，这种宽容既现实（即期望宽容既不太多也不太少），又不受政治化和意识形态的污染。

Our Research Unit will engage in a collaborative and programmatic investigation into tolerance and the multifaceted challenges associated with the concept and practice of tolerance in order to shed new light not only on the difficulty, but also on the possibility of tolerance. The investigation will be guided by the disapproval–respect model of tolerance, which has its roots in important insights from multiple disciplines, especially political, social, and moral philosophy as well as social psychology. While we are confident that the model is well suited to serve this guiding function, the model itself will be put to the test during the investigation. It is open to further development (specification, articulation, and amendment), but also revision, or even rejection and replacement if it does not stand the test. The main objective of the Research Unit is to build a theoretically coherent and empirically robust framework for understanding the foundations, dynamics, and (intended as well as unintended) outcomes of tolerance in plural societies. In response to the multifaceted nature of the challenges associated with the concept and practice of tolerance, the Research Unit brings together a multidisciplinary group of researchers to put the disapproval–respect model to the test and build a convincing evidence-based case for it or for a revised and improved version of it (or else replace it with a better alternative in case the model fails to stand the test of our rigorous research). The multidisciplinary composition of the Research Unit will enable us to cover a broad spectrum of relevant facets or dimensions. We will take into account content (e.g., whether religious, ethnic, political, gender, or sexual identities are at stake), context (e.g., the broader national or cultural contexts of intergroup relations), and time perspective (e.g., immediate cause-effect relationships as well as long-term developments). Our concerted effort will move the state of the art forward with a powerful conceptual device for understanding tolerance based on consolidated, mutually supportive insights from different disciplines. We are confident that it will pave the way not only to a scientific but also a public appreciation, in Western societies and beyond, of tolerance that is both realistic (i.e., expects of tolerance neither too much nor too little) and uncontaminated by politicization and ideology.