Bringing Memories in from the Margins: Inclusive Transitional Justice and Creative Memory Processes for Reconciliation in Colombia

在哥伦比亚50多年的武装冲突中，被边缘化的社区和冲突受害者的记忆要么被沉默，要么被排除在主导地位之外。这些记忆，并创造空间来承认它们，对于包容的和解至关重要。该项目采用参与式、联合制作的方法，支持哥伦比亚最边缘化的几个城市--巴霍·考卡、弗洛伦西亚、内华达山脉和瓦列杜帕尔的社区成员创作创造性的记忆作品。创造记忆工作意味着利用过去的痛苦来创造一些有用的东西，为现在和未来的和平而努力。该项目将与一系列备受尊敬的国家合作伙伴(包括哥伦比亚国家图书馆、国家历史记忆中心、妇女和平之路和国家记忆遗址网络)合作，使受害者能够发展技能、网络和信心，在国家舞台上分享他们的记忆，包括与哥伦比亚真相委员会合作。真相委员会承认受害者的经历是哥伦比亚和解的根本，但它不会也不可能成为和解的唯一场所。受害者的记忆也需要在学习冲突与和平的日常空间中得到倾听和承认，包括在学校和网上。该项目将与国家历史记忆中心合作，培训200多名教师将记忆工作用于和平教育，并将制作一套供课堂使用的资源。与该项目合作，哥伦比亚国家图书馆将设计和托管一个数字资源，将有效地与国内和国际上的广泛受众分享这些被边缘化社区的创造性记忆工作。我们聚集了一个由研究人员和从业人员组成的跨学科团队，他们共同致力于理解并促进哥伦比亚更具包容性的和解进程的可能性。来自哥伦比亚国立大学和布里斯托尔大学的研究人员团队跨越历史、教育、地区研究、政治、媒体研究和女权主义等学科，在联合制作和参与方法、利用数字技术增强研究成果以及哥伦比亚和拉丁美洲主要的以记忆、和解和教育为重点的研究项目方面拥有专门知识。该项目的核心伙伴关系是建立在与哥伦比亚主要组织现有和良好的关系的基础上的，这些组织致力于在地方、区域和国家各级促进记忆与和解。该项目分三个方面进行，来自边缘的First Memory将支持来自哥伦比亚一些最边缘化地区的1,000至10,000人创作变革性记忆作品，使个人和社区能够进行和解进程，并培养公众参与的持久技能。该项目创建的实物将保留在当地市政当局。第二个是和解，在全国范围内分享这一记忆工作，包括与哥伦比亚真相委员会和全国学校分享。最后，哥伦比亚过渡时期司法的经验教训巩固了哥伦比亚的工作，制作了持久的数字资源，并在哥伦比亚、英国和国际上分享了调查结果、方法和经验教训。该项目将有助于哥伦比亚实现可持续、包容各方的和解。通过这样做，它还将产生重要的知识，即本地化的和解进程可能与真相委员会等正式倡议联系起来，并使用联合制作和数字方法在学校分享。这些经验教训将对围绕过渡时期司法的全球政策讨论和我们各学科的学术辩论很有价值。

Over more than five decades of armed conflict in Colombia, the memories of marginalised communities and victims of conflict have been silenced or excluded from dominant accounts. These memories, and creation of spaces to acknowledge them, will be crucial to an inclusive reconciliation.This project adopts a participatory, co-production methodology to support community members in Bajo Cauca, Florencia, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and Valledupar - some of Colombia's most marginalised municipalities - to produce creative pieces of memory work. Creating memory work means using the pain of the past to create something useful for working towards peace in the present and future. Working with a set of highly respected national partners (including the National Library of Colombia, the National Centre for Historical Memory, the Peaceful Route for Women, and the National Network of Memory Sites) the project will enable victims to develop the skills, networks, and confidence to share their memories on a national stage, including with Colombia's truth commission. Acknowledgement of victims' experiences by the truth commission is fundamental to reconciliation in Colombia, but it will not and cannot be the only space where reconciliation takes place. Victims' memories also need to be heard and acknowledged in everyday spaces of learning about conflict and peace, including in schools and online. In partnership with the National Centre for Historical Memory, the project will train over 200 teachers to use memory work for peace education and it will produce a set of resources for use in classrooms. In partnership with the project, the National Library of Colombia will design and host a digital resource that will effectively share the creative memory work of these marginalised communities with a wide audience nationally and internationally.We bring together an interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners who share a commitment to understanding and enabling the possibilities for a more inclusive process of reconciliation in Colombia. The team of researchers from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the University of Bristol works across the disciplines of history, education, area studies, politics, media studies, and feminism and has expertise in co-production and participatory methodologies, the use of digital technology to enhance research findings, as well of leading research projects in Colombia and Latin America focused on memory, reconciliation and education. The partnerships at the core of the project are based on existing and well-established relationships with leading organisations in Colombia working to promote memory and reconciliation at local, regional and national levels. The project works in three strands, first memories from the margins will support between 1,000 - 10,000 people from some of the most marginalised parts of Colombia to create transformative memory works, enabling individual and community processes of reconciliation and developing lasting skills for public participation. Physical objects created by the project will remain in the local municipalities. The second, reconciliation, shares this memory work on a national scale, including with Colombia's truth commission and in the nation's schools. The final strand, lessons from Colombia's transitional justice consolidates the work in Colombia, producing lasting digital resources, and shares findings, methodologies and lessons in Colombia, the UK and internationally. The project will contribute to a sustainable, inclusive reconciliation in Colombia. In doing so, it will also generate important knowledge about the potential for localised processes of reconciliation to be connected with formal initiatives like truth commissions and shared in schools using co-production and digital methodologies. These lessons will be valuable for global policy discussions around transitional justice and for academic debates across our disciplines.