Amnesties, Prosecution and the Public Interest in the Northern Ireland Transition

这一后续资助申请旨在建立在超越法家主义项目中进行的比较研究的基础上，该项目探讨了南非、乌干达、乌拉圭、波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那和阿根廷在冲突转化中使用大赦的情况。最初，该项目不包括北方爱尔兰，因为当时的辩论不是一个“现场”的。自该赠款完成以来，公众越来越明显地需要就北方爱尔兰的大赦、不起诉和处理过去事件之间的关系提供国际上和法律上知情的意见。这个为期12个月的项目的总体目标是促进学术团队、项目合作伙伴和主要地方行为者之间就大赦和起诉在处理北方爱尔兰过去问题上的作用进行知识交流。为实现这一目标，项目的目标是：1。通过与当地主要行为者，包括受害者、前共和党和效忠派准军事人员、安全部队成员、政治家和公务员以及民间社会代表进行认真有序的接触，逐步开展知识交流。这种参与将从第1-3个月期间为主要赞助者举办的一系列私人简报会;到第4-8个月期间的一系列受邀圆桌会议，将探讨在超越法家项目研究基础上确定的主题;到第11.2个月的公开会议，当地和国际学者和从业人员将探讨项目主题。通过与印刷、广播和在线媒体的战略互动以及创建项目网站，传播超越法家主义的研究结果，并为公众辩论提供信息。反思和传播项目报告和完全理论化的学术文章中产生的知识（将明确关注这种知识转移方式）。与我们的项目合作伙伴合作，以提高组织的技术能力。潜在的应用和好处这个项目将有利于一系列非学术观众。在北方爱尔兰，受益者将包括项目伙伴、其他当地民间社会组织、相关政府部门、警务组织（北爱尔兰警察局、北爱尔兰人权法庭和警察监察员）、人权团体和法律的机构（特别是检察署）。这些团体将受益于非公开简报会、受邀圆桌会议和公开会议。对非政府组织来说，这种参与将再次加强它们对有关大赦的国际法律的框架以及其他管辖区如何应对这些挑战的了解。对于政府行为者来说，该项目将有助于加强循证决策，并可能对相关机构的业务和组织文化产生影响。该项目将为所有当地用户创造一个就高度敏感话题进行知情和辩论的空间，并将使联合王国、爱尔兰和国际上从事过渡时期司法工作的决策者受益。拟议的知识交流和传播方案将提供一种可转让的方法，并将有助于国际行为者循证决策，提高国际社会对平衡豁免、真相和起诉的复杂性的认识，该项目还将引起政治学、犯罪学、国际关系、人类学、社会学、和平研究和冲突转化。该项目将发展和完善超越法家项目的理论贡献，并将提出一种方法，旨在解决国际比较工作很少为当地社区提供切实利益的批评

CONTEXTThis application for Follow-on Funding aims to build upon the comparative research conducted in the Beyond Legalism project which explored the use of amnesties in conflict transformation in South Africa, Uganda, Uruguay, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Argentina. Originally, that project did not include Northern Ireland, as the debate was not a 'live' one at the time. Since that grant was completed, the public need for an internationally and legally informed contribution on the relationship between amnesties, non-prosecution and dealing with the past in Northern Ireland has become increasingly apparent. Together with the partner organisation, Healing Through Remembering, this proposal seeks to address that gap.AIMS AND OBJECTIVESThe overall aim of this 12-month project is to facilitate a process of knowledge exchange between the academic team, the project partner and key local actors on the role of amnesties and prosecution in dealing with the past in Northern Ireland. To achieve this aim, the project objectives are:1. To engage in a process of gradual knowledge exchange through a carefully sequenced pattern of engagement with key local actors, including victims, former Republican and Loyalist paramilitaries, security force members, politicians and civil servants, and civil society representatives. This engagement will move from a series of private briefings for key constituencies during months 1-3; to a series of invite-only roundtables in months 4-8 that will explore themes identified on the basis of the Beyond Legalism project research; to a public conference at which local and international scholars and practitioners will explore the project themes in month 11.2. To disseminate the Beyond Legalism findings and inform public debate through strategic interaction with print, broadcast and online media, and the creation of a project website.3. To reflect upon and disseminate the knowledge produced in a project report and a fully theorised academic article (which will focus explicitly on this style of knowledge transfer).4. To work with our project partner to enhance the organisation's technical capacity.POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS AND BENEFITSThis project will benefit a range of non-academic audiences. Within Northern Ireland, beneficiaries will include the project partner, other local civil society organisations, relevant government departments, policing organisations (PSNI, HET and Police Ombudsman), human rights groups and legal institutions (especially Public Prosecution Service). These groups will benefit from the private briefings, invite-only roundtables, and public conference. For NGOs, this engagement will again enhance their knowledge of the international legal framework concerning amnesties and of how other jurisdictions have grappled with these challenges. For governmental actors, the project will contribute to greater evidence-based policymaking and, potentially, impact on the operational and organisational culture of relevant institutions. For all local users, the project will create a space for informed and debate on highly sensitive topic.Elsewhere, the project will benefit policymakers within the United Kingdom, Ireland, and internationally who work on transitional justice. The proposed programme of knowledge exchange and dissemination will provide a transferrable methodology and will contribute to evidence-based policymaking among international actors, and raise international awareness of the complexities of balancing immunity, truth and prosecutions.The project will also be of interest to academics working in the fields of political science, criminology, international relations, anthropology, sociology, peace studies and conflict transformation. The project will develop and refine the theoretical contributions of the Beyond Legalism project and will propose a methodology designed to address critiques of international comparative work as rarely offering tangible benefits for the local community