PEACE FESTIVAL: Sharing Creative Methodologies for Unearthing Hidden War Stories for Peace

战争和冲突塑造了世界各地的社会。在过去二十年中，拉丁美洲的真相与和解项目及其在过渡时期司法方面的尝试经常被用作刚刚进入其冲突后局势的国家的榜样。然而，拉丁美洲的学术研究表明，被边缘化的人的声音往往没有出现在官方的“真相”中。采取了创造性的方法，以便将妇女、土著人民、年轻人和农村居民的声音纳入关于战争历史的讨论中。为了促进包容性过渡，我们从这样一个前提开始，即必须扩大这种与边缘化人口(土著、妇女、青年、农村)合作的地方倡议的声音。虽然现有倡议很重要，但在大多数情况下，它们彼此孤立，阻碍了专门技能和知识的交流。因此，他们在围绕战争叙事的斗争中产生影响以实现和解与建设和平的机会可能会受到限制。该项目建议通过创建一个跨越方法论、行动者和国家的对话空间来应对这些挑战，对话的内容包括方法论挑战和可能性、颠覆已经建立的战争叙事的替代叙事以及保存这些非官方故事的战略。我们是一个跨学科的团队：国际和平组织是马修·布朗教授，他是现代语言学院的拉丁美洲历史学家，而国际和平组织是卡伦·塔克博士，他是社会学、政治学和国际研究学院的政治学家。这两名RA是最近在大华大学教育研究生院完成记忆博士学位的秘鲁研究员戈亚·威尔逊，以及哥伦比亚研究员玛丽亚-特蕾莎·平托，她正在撰写一篇关于哥伦比亚和平进程中的历史记忆的博士论文--由CI监督。我们不同的背景在这个项目中融合在一起，旨在利用哥伦比亚和平进程中目前正在发生的不寻常时刻，将其与秘鲁的经验进行比较，并在全球范围内分享经验和创新。我们将确定秘鲁和哥伦比亚的项目的杰出范例，这些项目能够放大边缘化人民的声音，并将他们的故事纳入历史记忆。项目如：-哥伦比亚：1)太平洋鲁塔。2)Hijas e hijos por la Identida y la Justica Contra el Olvido y el Silencio(为身份和儿子争取身份和正义，反对遗忘和沉默)..3)国家犯罪受害者全国运动(MOVICE)。4)土著理事会协会。5)圣何塞·德阿巴塔多和平村(圣何塞·德·阿巴塔多委员会)：1)卢加·德·拉·纪念碑、La Tear ancia y la Inclusión Social(LUM)。(2)电影(PQNSR)。3)维奥伦西亚政治和阿亚库乔受害地区协调组织(CORAVIP)4)冲突协调中心(CCI)。5)HI.J.O.S.de秘鲁(又名HIJXS)我们将通过在哥伦比亚卡塔赫纳德印第安斯举行为期三天的和平节，让这些项目的参与者进行对话。与会者将介绍他们自己的项目，了解其他补充项目，并讨论如何克服他们的工作面临的挑战以及类似他们的项目的努力。我们将分析和平节的讨论，并通过学术文章、传统新闻和广播媒体以及社交媒体传播我们的调查结果。吸取的经验教训将有助于哥伦比亚人和秘鲁人识别边缘化的声音，并将他们的故事融入冲突后社会。

Wars and conflicts shape societies worldwide. In the last two decades, Latin America's truth and reconciliation projects, and its attempts at transitional justice, have often been used as model for states just entering their own post-conflict scenarios. Latin Americanist scholarship has shown, however, that the voices of marginalized peoples have too often been absent from official 'truths'. Creative methodologies have been adopted in order to integrate the voices of women, indigenous people, young people and rural residents into discussions about the history of wars. In order to foster an inclusive transition, we start from the premise that it is essential to amplify voices from such local initiatives working with marginalized populations (indigenous, women, youth, rural). While existing initiatives have been important they have in most cases remained isolated from one another, impeding the exchange of know-how and knowledge. As a result, their chances of having an impact in the struggles over the narratives of the war in order to achieve reconciliation and peacebuilding, can be limited.This project proposes to tackle these challenges by creating a space for dialogue across methodologies, actors and countries regarding the methodological challenges and possibilities, the alternative narratives that subvert the already established accounts of the war and the strategies for the preservation of these non-official stories.We are an interdisciplinary team: the PI is Professor Matthew Brown, a historian of Latin America based in the School of Modern Languages, and the CI is Dr Karen Tucker a political scientist based in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies. The RAs are Goya Wilson, a Peruvian researcher who has recently completed a PhD on memory in the Graduate School of Education at UoB; and Maria-Teresa Pinto, a Colombian researcher who is working on a doctoral thesis - supervised by the CI - on historical memory in the Colombian peace process. Our diverse backgrounds are fused together in this project, which aims to bring to bear the extraordinary moment taking place right now in the Colombian peace process, to compare it with the Peruvian experience, and to share experiences and innovations globally.We will identify outstanding examples of projects in Peru and Colombia that have been able to amplify the voices of marginalized peoples, and to incorporate their stories into historical memory. Projects such as:-Colombia:1) Ruta Pacifica. 2) Hijas e hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio (Daughters & sons for Identity & Justice against Oblivion & Silence).. 3) National Movement of Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE). 4) Association of Indigenous Councils Nasa Çxhãçxha. 5) Peace Village of San José de Apartadó (Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó) Peru:1) Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM). 2) Movimiento Ciudadano Para Que No Se Repita (PQNSR). 3) Coordinadora Regional de Organizaciones de Victimas de la Violencia Politica en Ayacucho (CORAVIP)4) Coordinadora Contra la Impunidad (CCI). 5) H.I.J.O.S. de Peru (a.k.a. HIJXS). We will bring participants from those projects into dialogue by means of a three-day Peace Festival, to be held in Cartagena de Indias, in Colombia. Participants will present their own project, learn about other complementary projects, and discuss how to overcome the challenges that face their work and the endeavours of projects like them.We will analyse the discussions from the Peace Festival, and disseminate our findings through academic articles, traditional press and broadcast media, and through social media. The lessons learned will help Colombians and Peruvians to identify marginalized voices, and to incorporate their stories into post-conflict societies.