The Art of Disaster Risk Reduction: an arts-based approach to strengthening community and institutional capacity in Colombia

本提案的重点是与AHRC共同资助的跨学科研究项目“与风险一起行动：哥伦比亚被迫流离失所和易受灾害影响”（2016年11月1日至2018年10月31日）直接相关的意想不到的影响途径。在哥伦比亚，“与风险一起行动”试点了基于艺术的创新方法，以研究因冲突而被迫离开家园的人们如何在他们重新安置的地方面临洪水、山体滑坡和火灾等环境危害的高风险。研究小组将创意艺术作为数据收集的方法论工具，并作为在减少灾害风险（DRR）中赋予国内流离失所者权力的渠道。事实证明，“与风险一起行动”试点的基于艺术的方法在吸引国内流离失所者及其合作机构参与DRR讨论、实践和政策并增强其权能方面非常有效。该项目将在马尼萨莱斯、佩雷拉和索阿查市的新风险案例研究地点开展工作，并与新社区建立联系，不仅可以增强和发展“与风险一起行动”的好处和价值，还可以将这些好处和价值传递给原始研究中没有接触到的新受众。通过在整个研究过程中的密切合作，该团队与国内流离失所者、他们的社区以及在dr中与他们合作的组织建立了牢固的信任关系。这就产生了产生影响的新机会，这在最初提出研究建议时是无法预见的。国内流离失所者和参与原来项目的机构直接参与规划拟议的影响活动，这些活动的目的是发展和加深现有关系，并与原来研究中没有包括的新社区的新社区建立类似的信任关系。这个影响项目将把大学学者、来自人权组织Dejusticia的研究人员、哥伦比亚红十字会的代表和当地市政当局的DRR部门的代表聚集在一起，以接触到三个新的受众。首先，它将使面临环境风险的整个社区在新的案例研究地点参与进来。来自委内瑞拉的新移民以及更广泛的土著和非裔哥伦比亚人群体，他们都与国内流离失所者生活在同一空间，而国内流离失所者是最初研究的唯一焦点，他们将被包括在内。将利用以艺术为基础的活动，从这些社区获取有关他们的知识、经验和对他们所面临的风险的理解的信息。社区成员将接受基于艺术的培训，了解他们在减少灾害风险方面的法律权利和责任。然后，他们将利用以艺术为基础的活动在其社区内建立减少灾害风险网络。这些网络由当地社区管理，将在项目结束后继续运作，使社区能够积极参与减少灾害风险实践。第二，该项目将加深与从事减灾工作的政府和民间组织的接触。这些机构的代表将接受培训，学习如何使用以艺术为基础的方法，与面临风险的社区合作，并收集有关这些社区的知识、经验和需求的信息。将提供一份免费的学习包，为更多从事减灾工作的组织和非政府组织提供培训。第三，该项目将解决公众将风险社区视为“受害者”或国家支持的被动受益者的负面看法。艺术作品将根据社区的意见，以他们喜欢的形式和风格创作，并在社区选择的公共空间中展示。这将为边缘化社区创造创新空间，使他们能够控制自己的代表框架，并阐述自己的优势、韧性、技能和能力。在建设和平的时期，这将使我们能够以更多元的方式处理冲突遗留问题和DRR问题。

Summary This proposal focuses on unanticipated pathways to impact directly related to the AHRC co-funded interdisciplinary research project, Moving with Risk: forced displacement and vulnerability to hazards in Colombia (1 November 2016-31 October 2018). Moving with Risk piloted innovative arts-based methodologies to examine how people forced from their homes by conflict in Colombia are exposed to heightened risk from environmental hazards such as flooding, landslide and fire in the places where they resettle. The research team used creative arts as a methodological tool for data collection and a channel for empowerment of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in disaster risk reduction (DRR). The arts-based methodologies piloted in Moving with Risk proved highly effective in engaging and empowering IDPs and the institutions that work with them around DRR discussion, practice and policy. This project will work in new at-risk case study sites in the municipalities of Manizales, Pereira and Soacha, and connect with new communities, in order not only to enhance and develop the benefits and value of Moving with Risk, but also to transfer these to new audiences not accessed in the original research.Via close collaboration throughout the research process, the team has developed strong relationships of trust with IDPs, their communities and the organisations that work with them in DRR. This has generated new opportunities for impact that could not have been foreseen at the time of the original research proposal. IDPs and the institutions involved in the original project have fed directly into planning the proposed impact activities, which are intended both to develop and deepen existing relationships and also to generate similar relationships of trust with new communities in new neighbourhoods not included in the original research.The impact project will bring together university academics, researchers from Human Rights organisation Dejusticia, representatives of the Colombian Red Cross and DRR sections of local municipalities, to reach three new audiences. First, it will engage whole communities exposed to environmental risk, in new case study sites. Recent migrants from Venezuela and broader indigenous and Afro-Colombian groups, who all live in the same spaces as the IDPs who were the sole focus of the original research, will be included. Arts-based activities will be used to elicit information from these communities about their knowledge, experiences and understandings of the risks they live with. Community members will receive arts-based training in their legal rights and responsibilities regarding DRR. They will then use arts-based activities to establish DRR networks within their communities. Run by the local neighbourhoods, these networks will continue beyond the duration of the project, empowering communities to take active ownership of DRR practice.Second, the project will deepen engagement with government and civil organisations that work in DRR. Representatives from these organisations will receive training in the use of arts-based methodologies as a tool for working with at-risk communities and collecting information about these communities' knowledge, experiences and needs. A free learning package will be made available to provide training for further organisations and NGOs who work in DRR.Third, the project will tackle negative public perceptions of at-risk communities as 'victims' or passive beneficiaries of state support. Artworks will be created, with the communities' input and in their preferred formats and styles, to be displayed in public spaces chosen by the communities. This will create innovative spaces for marginalised communities to control the framework of their own representation, and articulate their own stories about their strengths, resilience, skills and capacities. At a time of peacebuilding, this will allow for a more pluralistic engagement with the legacy of conflict and with DRR.