Global Histories of Peace and Anti-Nuclear Activism

全球和平研究网络将为1945年以来的反核与和平激进主义研究提供全球视角。虽然现有的大多数反对核武器的学术研究仍然集中在西欧和北美，但GPRN将与五大洲的九所大学和非政府组织合作，提供全球和跨学科的视角。该网络的核心活动之一是在五个不同国家的伙伴机构主办主题研讨会，与一系列学术和非学术行为者建立对话。每个研讨会都将通过独特的本土视角探讨一个广泛的全球主题。例如，巴西讲习班将审查核事故对对待和反对核武器的态度的影响。然而，我们不会把重点放在切尔诺贝利和三里岛等更著名的例子上，而是通过探索当地的例子来“分散”叙述的中心，即1987年在戈伊尼亚发生的辐射事故，研讨会将在那里举行。通过将本地和国际参与者聚集在一起，每个研讨会将向被忽视的行为者和事件发出声音，并产生新的见解。每个研讨会都将有来自几个学科的学者、政策制定者、活动家和非政府组织参加。网络合作伙伴包括历史学家、政治学家、国际关系学者和和平研究专家，以及全球非政府组织、2017年诺贝尔和平奖获得者国际废除核武器运动(ICAN)的研究和政策负责人。因此，除了与五大洲的合作伙伴建立网络的地理范围外，拟议的网络还将跨越学科界限，促进学术界和非政府组织之间的真正合作。ICAN的参与是该项目的核心，因为他们将有助于为研究问题提供信息，在每个研讨会上提供重要声音，并将有助于将我们的成果传播给世界各地的伙伴非政府组织和活动家。我们将产生一些成果。我们将与ICAN合作，与世界顶尖的大学附属智库LSE Ideas一起发布一份政策文件，我们的项目网站将包括为活动家指定的资源，包括一份反核行动指南，以教育当前的活动家了解这一事业的历史和地理范围。此外，这个网络还将制作一个创新的数字和平档案馆(DPA)，其中包括来自世界各地的活动家和团体的文件、图像和竞选材料。每个讲习班将包括呼吁参与者和公众提供该地区的适当材料，以便添加到档案中，并将辅之以口述历史和访谈，以及解释性文章，以吸引和教育公众、研究人员、从业人员和教师。我们将与威尔逊中心密切合作，该中心已经制作了来自世界各地的政府文件的非常成功的数字档案。DPA将通过提供来自非国家行为者的广泛材料来补充威尔逊中心的数字档案。通过我们的成果传播新的见解并使和平组织的档案材料广泛可用，该项目将促进来自一系列国家的自下而上的资源的使用，使研究人员能够提供更全球性和全面的核历史研究。我们还将制作一个免费的、开放的在线课程(例如MOOC)，由开放大学的开放式学习平台(每年约1350万访问者)主办。这门课程将提供给世界各地的个人，他们将能够参与到项目的见解和成果中。现有的OU MOOC已由100多个国家和地区的个人完成，这一全球覆盖范围将使我们能够确保世界各地的个人都能访问我们项目的成果。

The Global Peace Research Network (GPRN) will provide a global perspective of the study of anti-nuclear and peace activism since 1945. While most existing scholarship on opposition to nuclear weapons remains focused on Western Europe and North America, the GPRN will work with nine universities and NGOs across five continents to offer global and interdisciplinary perspectives.One core activity of the Network is to host themed workshops at partner institutions in five different countries, forging a dialogue with a range of academic and non-academic actors. Each workshop will explore a broad, global theme through a uniquely local lens. For example, the Brazil workshop will examine the impact of nuclear accidents on attitudes towards, and opposition to, nuclear weapons. Rather than focus on more well-known examples such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, however, we will 'de-centre' the narrative by exploring a local example, namely the 1987 radiological accident that occurred in Goiânia, where the workshop will be held. By bringing together local and international participants, each workshop will give a voice to overlooked actors and events and will generate new insights.Each workshop will involve academics from several disciplines, policymakers, activists and NGOs. Network partners include historians, political scientists, IR scholars, and peace studies experts, as well as the head of research and policy at a global NGO, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). As such, in addition to the geographical scope of the network with partners across five continents, the proposed Network will cross disciplinary boundaries and foster genuine cooperation between academics and NGOs. The involvement of ICAN is central to the project, as they will help inform the research questions, provide important voices at each workshop, and will help disseminate our outputs to partner NGOs and activists around the world. We will produce a number of outputs. We will publish a policy paper with LSE IDEAS, the world's top-ranked university-affiliated think-tank, in coordination with ICAN, and our project website will include designated resources for activists, including a guide on anti-nuclear activism to educate current activists on the historical and geographical scope of this cause. We will also produce an edited volume and a special issue of a journal.In addition, this network will produce an innovative Digital Peace Archive (DPA), featuring documents, images, and campaign materials from activists and groups from around the world. Each workshop will include a call for participants and members of the public to contribute suitable material from that region to be added to the archive, and will be supplemented by oral histories and interviews, as well as explanatory essays to engage and educate the public, researchers, practitioners, and teachers. We will work closely with the Wilson Center, which has produced a highly successful digital archive of government documents from around the world. The DPA will complement the Wilson Center's digital archive by providing a wide range of materials from non-state actors. By disseminating new insights through our outputs and making widely accessible archival materials from peace organisations, the project will facilitate the use of bottom-up resources from a range of countries, enabling researchers to offer more global and well-rounded studies of nuclear history.We will also produce a free, open access online course (e.g. a MOOC), hosted by the Open University's OpenLearn platform (ca 13.5 million visitors per year). This course will be available to individuals around the world who will be able to engage with the insights and outputs of the project. Existing OU MOOCs have been completed by individuals in over 100 countries, and this global reach will allow us to ensure the findings of our project are accessed by individuals around the world.