Voices of War and Peace - Core Centre Continuation Proposal

记住，就像忘记一样，永远是一种政治行为。第一次世界大战是一场全球性的冲突，在当地留下了印记。城市和农村地区的情况是否不同？在战争期间和战争结束后，士兵和平民之间的关系是什么？它塑造了个人和社区的身份吗？它对同时代人有不同的意义吗？与会者一致认为，应当纪念和缅怀死者，但在如何理解牺牲的例子、纪念行为的意义和从中汲取的经验等问题上，意见不太一致。这些含义是如何随着时间的推移而变化的？今天人们是如何理解它的？“过去是一个外国：他们在那里做事情的方式不同”，这是一个老生常谈吗？当然，2016年的英国与1914年的英国截然不同，Parekh（2000）将其描述为“社区的社区”。“年轻人对坐落在城市和农村景观中的当地死者纪念馆以及老一辈以他们为中心组织的纪念活动有什么意义？对于在一个智能手机上立即可以看到冲突实况报道，媒体立即报道伤亡、破坏和难民的社会中长大的年轻人来说，战争有什么意义？年轻人将如何将过去与现在和未来联系起来？随着第一次世界大战从记忆中走入历史，他们所经历的纪念记录，又将在2019年之后留给未来的历史学家们去反思？这些问题所包含的问题构成了并将继续构成《战争与和平之声：大战及其遗产》项目的框架。致力于跨学科的研究，结构性的承诺，以社区参与研究和专业承诺'在理解的使命'调查，分析，理解，批评和判断，从而将爱德华说的'社区的解释'的想法付诸实践（Said 2003年）“之声”中心已与多个社区和地方及国家的公众接触，通过对话探讨有关记忆、纪念和纪念的问题。该中心的存在是为了回应社区的支持要求，在建设研究技能和支持社区驱动的研究议程方面;它的存在是为了与其他AHRC资助的参与中心，遗产彩票基金，百年合作伙伴关系，以及艺术和遗产组织合作，探索第一次世界大战的公共和学术历史之间的联系。分享知识、专业知识和资源，了解冲突对战争期间和战后家庭性别关系的影响、对个人和家庭身份的精神要素、对家庭关系的影响以及在冲突、失落和流离失所的时代长大的孩子的感受，和平之声项目将为社区留下自己的遗产，在共同设计和共同制作研究的能力方面，学术关系，对记忆和遗忘之间复杂关系的理解以及继续“通过过去向前思考”的愿望。

Remembering, just like forgetting, is always a political act. The First World War was a global conflict which left its mark on the local. Was it experienced differently in urban and rural areas? What were the relationships between soldiers and civilians during and after the war? Did it shape individual and community identities? Did it have different meanings for contemporaries? There was a consensus that the dead were to be commemorated and remembered, but there was less agreement over how the example of sacrifice was to be understood and the meanings to be attributed to and experiences to be drawn from acts of commemoration. How have these meanings changed over time? How is it being understood today? Is it a truism that 'the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there'? Certainly, Britain in 2016 is a very different country to that of 1914 and has been described by Parekh (2000) as 'a community of communities.' What sense are young people making of the local memorials to the dead which sit in the urban and rural landscapes and the acts of commemoration organised by an older generation which centre upon them? What meaning does the war have for young people who have grown up in a society where live reports of conflict are instantly available on a smartphone and where stories of casualties, destruction and refugees are instantly reported in the media? How will young people connect this past with their present and their future? As the First World War moves out of memory into history, what will be the record of commemoration that they will have experienced and will be left after 2019 for future historians to reflect upon? The issues embedded in these questions formed, and continue to form, the framework of the Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy project. Committed to cross-disciplinary research, structural commitment to community engagement with research and professional commitment 'in a mission of understanding' to investigate, analyse, apprehend, criticize and judge and thereby translate Edward Said's idea of 'communities of interpretation' into practice (Said 2003) the Voices' Centre has reached out to multiple communities and publics, local and national, to explore through dialogue issues around memory, remembering and commemoration. The Centre exists to respond to community requests for support in terms of building research skills and in supporting community driven research agenda; and it exists to work in partnership with the other AHRC funded Engagement Centres, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Centenary Partnership, and arts and heritage organisations in exploring the connections between public and academic histories of the First World War. Sharing knowledge, expertise and resources about the impact of conflict on gender relations on the home front during and after the war, on the spiritual elements of personal and family identity, on family relationships and what it was to be a child growing up in an age of conflict, loss and displacement, and on global relationships in the decades that followed the Peace the Voices project will leave its own legacy for community/academy relations in terms of the capacity for the co-design and coproduction of research, an understanding of the complicated relationship between remembering and forgetting and a desire to continue to 'think forward through the past'.