Pictures of Peace and Justice: Documentation, Evidence and Impact of Visual Material in International War Crimes Prosecution

和平与正义的图片：国际战争罪起诉中可视材料的证据和影响这个项目建立在之前的三个项目的基础上：AHRC资助的关于战争罪行的项目，美国和平研究所资助的关于塞拉利昂特别法庭的项目，以及ESRC关于媒体和安全的项目，该项目产生了关于与战争罪行和过渡司法有关的运动图像的研究成果。该项目是一项试验性研究，目的是在建立国际化司法程序的三个阶段(即具有重大国际投入和背景的国际法院和国内程序)，调查视觉材料相对于其他类型材料的重要性。第一个是建立这些司法机构的背景。第二是审判的进行。第三是法庭以外对和平与安全问题的影响。该项目将(I)在确定的三个阶段中的每个阶段确定、记录、批判性地评价和创建目视证据实例的数据集；(Ii)对司法、政策、媒体和军事安全从业人员进行半结构化访谈，以调查关于视觉材料在三个阶段中每个阶段的相对重要性的知识、理解和判断；(Iii)根据阶段(I)和(Ii)，开展焦点小组研究，以调查关于特定目视证据实例的信念、价值观和态度，包括生成程序和案件、在审判中用作证据以及对冲突后社会和社区的影响。该试点项目将测试这一领域研究的可行性和潜在意义，以便为随后的更大规模的研究提供资金。作为试点项目，范围将主要限于对这些问题的调查，主要涉及德国和日本的二十世纪中叶的案例，在这些案例中将利用已有的研究和资源，以及在前南斯拉夫和塞拉利昂的二十世纪末和二十一世纪的案例中，首席调查员和联合调查员具有丰富的研究经验。

Pictures of Peace and Justice: Evidence and Impact of Visual Material in Internationalised War Crimes ProsecutionsThis project builds on three previous projects: an AHRC funded project on War Crimes, a US Institute for Peace funded project on the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and an ESRC project on media and security, which produced research findings on moving images in relation to war crimes and transitional justice. The project is a pilot study to investigate the importance of visual material vis a vis other types of material at three stages of the process of establishing internationalised judicial processes (i.e. international courts and domestic processes with both significant international input and context). The first of these is the context in which these judicial bodies are created. The second is the conduct of trials. The third is the impact beyond the courtroom on issues of peace and security. The project will (i) identify, document, critically appraise and create data sets of examples of visual evidence at each of the three stages identified; (ii) conduct semi-structured interviews with judicial, policy, media and military-security practitioners to investigate knowledge, understanding and judgement on the relative importance of visual material at each of the three stages; (iii) carry out focus group research to investigate beliefs, values and attitudes regarding particular examples of visual evidence, in light of stages (i) and (ii), including generating processes and cases, use as evidence in trials, and impact on post-conflict societies and communities. The pilot project will test the feasibility and potential significance of research in this area for a subsequent larger research funding proposal. Asa pilot project, the scope will be limited to investigation of these issues primarily in relation to the mid-twentieth century cases of Germany and Japan, where established research and resources will be exploited, and the late-twentieth and twenty-first century cases of the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, where the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator have extensive research experience.