GCRF Development Award: Rights for Time

人道主义政策和做法是由危机的紧迫性和紧迫性驱动的。但在长期冲突和流离失所的情况下，往往是随着时间的推移而发生的隐藏损害为未来的暴力、变革和可能的和平奠定了条件。争取时间的权利/争取权利的时间(RFT)网络将共同创建、共同评估和支持传播关于时间如何为战争、流离失所和暴力创造条件，并改变人道主义保护和人权的可能性和行动框架的新理解。我们的重点是时间，以回应我们的海外合作伙伴在冲突和流离失所背景下的保护主题中发现的差距。保护的主要绊脚石之一是未能衡量和确定需求和问题，这些问题目前在政策、法律和地方背景下对外部行为者并不明显。只对最近的虐待或威胁做出反应的援助和保护不仅无法理解伤害的性质，而且限制了可能的解决方案的可持续性。揭露层层的时间和隐藏的损害将揭示最脆弱和被剥夺公民权的人的具体需求。暴力、流离失所和世代创伤的多重、分层甚至同时发生的经历将延续到子孙后代，带来新的挑战并阻碍变革。为了解决这一问题，我们正在提出一种新的全球、流动、跨学科和多方向的方法，以在更长的时间框架内发现和关注现代冲突、暴力和骚乱。我们将汇聚国内合作伙伴和来自艺术和人文科学、心理科学、神经科学、医学人类学、难民研究、性别研究、人权、过渡时期司法和人道主义法以及保护政策的学术专家，通过开展跨学科、点对点、基于案例的研究来应对这些挑战。我们选择在长期暴力产生持久和棘手挑战的特定背景下开展工作，特别是对妇女和女童等弱势社区和群体而言。黎巴嫩、卢旺达、肯尼亚、约旦以及加沙地带和西岸的冲突造成了几代人被迫流离失所的模式。记忆遗产是尖锐的，创伤是无时无刻不存在的。我们将为时间发展权利概念，以建立一个能够将冲突的隐藏遗产直接纳入人道主义保护和人权政策和实践的网络。设在伯明翰大学、KCL大学、SOAS大学、伦敦大学学院、哈希姆大学(约旦)和黎巴嫩美国大学的联合调查员将与一系列项目伙伴合作，包括Wangu Kanju、我们爱阅读、BLAST、非洲人类进步倡议和基加利摄影中心，以确定、试点和委托进行一系列初步案例研究，随后开展更长的项目，以产生新的证据基础，制定新的政策、做法和法律，使地方、国家和国际各级在文化上看到旷日持久的暴力伤害形式。通过这样做，伙伴国将拥有必要的工具和更强的能力，为受冲突和暴力影响最严重的群体，特别是弱势群体制定有效的保护解决方案。这一发展奖将使我们能够深化和加强我们的伙伴关系，特别是与上述小岛屿发展中国家的非政府组织、慈善机构和社区团体的伙伴关系。它还将促进整个网络将通过的广泛规划和关键政策的制定，特别是关于道德操守/保障以及性别平等和包容性的政策。我们还将为RFT网络制定一项传播计划，包括启动一个初步项目网站，以提高认识并鼓励参与该项目。

Humanitarian policy and practice is driven by the immediacy of crisis and urgency. But in contexts of protracted conflict and displacement, it is often the hidden damage that takes place over time that sets the terms for future violence, change, and possible peace. The Rights for Time/Time for Rights (RfT) Network will co-create, co-evaluate and support the dissemination of a new understanding of how time conditions war, displacement, and violence, and shifts the possibilities and frame of action for humanitarian protection and human rights.Our focus on time responds to gaps identified by our overseas partners in the Protection in Contexts of Conflict and Displacement theme. One of the major stumbling-blocks to protection is the failure to measure and identify needs andproblems not currently obvious to external actors in policy, law, and in local contexts. Aid and protection that reacts to only the most 'recent' abuse or threat not only fails to understand the nature of injury, but limits the sustainability of possible solutions. Uncovering layers of time and hidden damage will reveal the specific needs of the most vulnerable and disenfranchised. Multiple, layered and even simultaneous experiences of violence, displacement, and generational trauma persist into future generations, creating new challenges and blocking change. To address this, we are proposing a new global, mobile, interdisciplinary, and multi-directional approach to uncover and focus on modern conflict, violence, and uprootedness within a longer time frame. Drawing together in-country partners and academic experts from the arts and humanities, the psy-sciences, neuroscience, medical anthropology, refugee studies, gender studies, human rights, transitional justice, and humanitarian law, and protection policy, we will meet these challenges by developing interdisciplinary, peer-to-peer, case-based research. We have chosen to work both within and across specific contexts where the long periods of violence produce enduring and intractable challenges, particularly for vulnerable communities and groups, such as women and girls. Conflict in Lebanon, Rwanda, Kenya, Jordan and the Gaza Strip and West Bank, has resulted in patterns of forced displacement that span generations. Memory legacies are acute, and trauma is ever-present. We will develop the concept of Rights for Time to build a network that can bring the hidden legacies of conflict directly into humanitarian protection and human rights policy and practice. Co-Investigators based at the universities of Birmingham, KCL, SOAS, UCL and at the Hashemite University (Jordan) and the Lebanese American University will work with a series of Project Partners, including Wangu Kanju, We Love Reading, BLAST, the African Initiative for Mankind Progress and the Kigali Center for Photography to identify, pilot and commission a series of initial case studies, followed by longer projects, to generate new evidence bases, develop new policy, practice and law in action and make the forms of injury of protracted violence culturally visible at local, national and international levels. In doing so, partner countries will have the necessary tools and an increased ability to develop effective protection solutionsfor those most affected by conflict and violence, especially vulnerable groups.This Development Award will allow us to deepen and strengthen our partnerships, particularly with NGOs, charities and community groups in the LMICs mentioned above. It will also facilitate extensive planning and the formulation of key policies, to be adopted across the Network, particularly around ethics/safeguarding and gender and inclusivity. We will also develop a communications plan for the RfT Network, including the launch of an initial project website, to raise awareness and encourage engagement with the project.