Building Trust for Truth-Telling Among Former Child Soldiers: Animation for Inclusion and Peacebuilding in Colombia

“建立对真相的信任”是一个以艺术为基础的项目，旨在促进前儿童兵的参与，并确保他们的声音在哥伦比亚官方对内战的叙述中得到体现。这是哥伦比亚真相委员会、大学、草根民间社会组织和来自英国和哥伦比亚的艺术家之间的合作。哥伦比亚澄清真相、共存和不重复委员会（“委员会”）已经认识到它存在紧急证据不足。委员会特别要求我们帮助接触前儿童兵，并要求我们与这一群体合作，使用联合制作技术，捕捉他们的历史，征求证词，并为不再发生冲突提供具体建议。因此，该项目旨在通过创造性的方法建立信任，并促进将这些前儿童兵的边缘化声音纳入其中。具体来说，我们的目标有三个：(a)为委员会提供基于生活故事叙述交流/访谈的证词，以便纳入其官方报告，并在此过程中捕捉到迄今为止在历史档案中基本上被忽视的重要事件（“柏林行动”见下文）的历史。(b)反思合拍片技术在处理哥伦比亚境内以及最终超越哥伦比亚的敏感历史时刻遗产方面的功效。(c)利用这些反思，根据收集到的证词制作动画，并为建设和平的教育目的建立一个工具，在此基础上可以提出、更广泛地促进和巩固关于不重复和解的建议。证词将通过一系列以艺术为基础的研讨会来引出，参与者之间将进行访谈和被访谈。通过鼓励参与这些交流，我们将创造一个安全的空间，在这个空间里，我们可以与有类似经历的其他人建立信心和韧性。该项目将特别关注有关“柏林行动”的证词。2000年，哥伦比亚军队在该国东北部Tibú镇外对FARC的Arturo Ruiz纵队发动了袭击。20多名儿童兵在袭击中丧生，但事件的真相尚不清楚，军方被指控掩盖暴行。至少有10名这次事件的幸存者承诺参加我们的项目。这些参与者将首次在官方层面分享他们的故事。哥伦比亚持续的暴力“不仅塑造了外部行动者对哥伦比亚的看法，而且塑造了个人和社区如何看待自己，构建记忆和身份，创造和分享信仰和价值观”（Dancey和Morrison， 2019年，第34页）。它创造了Steiner（2005）所说的“负面身份”，不仅给个人生活造成创伤，而且限制了哥伦比亚人“想象不同未来”的能力（Sanford, 2006, Dancey et al, 2019）。艺术和文化干预试图通过鼓励创造“新想象”，即人们思考社会的新方式，在图像和故事中捕捉到，从而产生和平与和解（Taylor, 2004）。和平建设项目的重点，特别是那些与年轻人合作的项目，往往旨在强调新叙述的重要性，这些叙述与参与者的声音密切相关，并提供恢复力的战略，同时也承认暴力的遗产。我们在这个项目中的意图是尽可能地贴近参与者的声音和生活经历，同时也为今天的参与者创造一个安全的空间，让他们对过去的遗产进行批判性的反思。这样，我们的研究将对哥伦比亚的和平进程和关于在建设和平中以艺术为基础的合作生产的研究作出紧迫和必要的贡献。

Building Trust for Truth-Telling is an arts-based project which facilitates the inclusion of former child soldiers, and guarantees the representation of their voices, in Colombia's official narrative of the civil war. It is a collaboration between the Colombian Truth Commission, universities, grassroots civil society organizations and artists from the UK and Colombia. The Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition in Colombia (the 'Commission') has recognised it has an urgent evidence deficit. The Commission has asked us for help to approach former child soldiers, in particular, and has asked us to work with this group, using co-production techniques, to capture their history, to elicit testimony and provide concrete recommendations for the non-repetition of conflict. This project is therefore intended to build trust and foster the inclusion of the marginalised voices of these former child soldiers through creative methods. Specifically, our aim is threefold: (a) to provide the Commission with testimony based on life-story narrative exchanges/interviews for inclusion in its official report and in so doing also capture the history of an important event ('Operation Berlin' see below), largely ignored in the historical archive to date.(b) to reflect upon the efficacy of co-production techniques to engage with the legacy of sensitive historical moments in, and ultimately beyond, Colombia.(c) to use these reflections to inform an animation based on the collected testimonies and build a tool for peace-building education purposes, on which recommendations for non-repetition reconciliation can be made, promoted and consolidated more widely.Testimony will be elicited via a series of arts-based workshops in which participants will both interview and be interviewed among themselves. By encouraging participation in these exchanges, we will create a safe space in which confidence and resilience can be built with others, who share similar stories. The project will give special attention to testimony on 'Operation Berlin.' In 2000, the Colombian army launched an attack against the Arturo Ruiz column of the FARC outside the town of Tibú in the north east of the country. More than 20 child soldiers were killed in the attack, but the facts about what happened remain unclear, and the army has been accused of covering up the atrocity. At least 10 survivors of this incident have committed to taking part in our project. These participants will be sharing their stories at an official level for the first time.Colombia's sustained violence 'shapes not only how external actors perceive Colombia, but how individuals and communities perceive themselves, construct memories and identity, and create and share beliefs and values' (Dancey and Morrison, 2019, p.34). It has created what Steiner (2005) terms a 'negative identity' and not only causes trauma in individual lives, but also restricts the Colombian people's ability to 'imagine a different future' (Sanford, 2006, Dancey et al, 2019).Artistic and cultural interventions seek to engender peace and reconciliation through encouraging the creation of 'new imaginaries', of new ways for groups of people to think about society, captured in images and stories (Taylor, 2004). The focus of peace-building projects, particularly those working with young people, often aims to place an emphasis on the importance of new narratives, which stay close to the participants' voices and offer strategies for resilience, whilst also acknowledging the legacy of violence. Our intention in the project is to stay as close to the participants' voices and stories of lived experience as possible, whilst also creating a safe space for critical reflection on the legacy of the past for participants today. In so doing, our research will make an urgent, and necessary, contribution to Colombia's peace process, and research on arts-based coproduction in peace-building.