Gender Based Violence and Resilience in India: Co-Producing Interdisciplinary Network through storytelling and applied theatre (GenViR Network India)

这个高度协作的跨学科网络详细介绍了一种新颖的应用戏剧方法，该方法将探索和调动资源，以减轻印度贫民窟居住社区中针对年轻和老年成年移民妇女的性别暴力（GBV）。性别暴力对妇女和女孩的影响尤为严重，与男子和男孩相比，她们往往遭受更严重的身心健康和社会后果。在所有情况下，对妇女和女孩的基于性别的暴力都被认为是造成不良健康结果的高风险因素，包括精神健康、不良生殖结果、不良性健康、残疾、慢性疼痛、创伤性脑损伤甚至死亡。对于女性在面对逆境时如何减轻和发展复原力，以及她们如何为积极的生活构建复原力，目前的研究和见解明显缺乏。这代表了一个不为人知的故事，该网络打算探索。作为一种研究工具，复原力的概念正获得越来越多的关注，与此同时，人们也认识到，人类社会的复杂性、相互冲突的交叉性以及面临的挑战正变得越来越尖锐。我们的网络打算有意义地解决这些复杂的挑战。我们的建议结合了一种代际方法，探索男女在解决和减少性别暴力以促进心理健康和复原力方面的观点，并采用包容性参与式模式、新颖的应用戏剧方法和数字媒体方法。通过应用戏剧和讲故事作为一个总体概念，我们设想这些基于艺术的实践将与社区团体一起创造戏剧，目的是邀请变革，并研究社区主导的解决方案，以解决不公正、不平等和暴力的生活经历。我们将通过：(1)探索SDMW如何能够安全和合乎道德地参与确定减少社区GVB变化的关键领域。(2)从感兴趣的SDMW中引出他们关于GBV的生活经历和可能的解决方案。(3)共同举办一系列研讨会，动员生活体验专家和跨部门利益相关者作为可持续和文化相关研究和影响议程的变革推动者。(4)在现有关系上进行能力建设，并建立新的伙伴关系，以加强和多样化网络的研究基础和资金应用。我们的网络将扩展现有的伙伴关系，并在英国和印度的学者和研究人员、边缘化贫民窟居住社区的成员、戏剧从业者和非政府组织之间发展新的合作。我们将探讨针对妇女的暴力行为可能采取的形式，她们可以抵制暴力的方式，以及在哪里可以寻求帮助。我们的戏剧、故事和数字媒体参与将提供超越传统研究方法的机会，以引出新的故事和经验，并催化对可能解决方案的新思考，以一种可以让来自边缘社区的女性和男性参与解决性别暴力问题的方式。我们的网络将对以下方面产生影响：(1)通过促进针对性别暴力的有效解决方案，促进这一弱势群体的和平、正义、尊严、福祉和复原力；(2)通过共同创造韧性知识和性别暴力预防战略，直接参与解决性别暴力问题；(3)能力建设，促进预防和复原力建设措施，以解决贫民窟内移民社区的性别暴力问题，促进性别平等、社会正义和经济发展；(4)为促进印度/南亚边缘化贫民窟社区的和平、正义和复原力的文化上适当的性别暴力预防战略提供国内和国际辩论信息。

This highly collaborative, cross-disciplinary network details a novel applied theatre methodology which will both explore and mobilise resources to mitigate gender-based violence (GBV) against young and older adult migrant women in slum dwelling communities in India. GBV disproportionately affects women and girls who often suffer more serious mental and physical health and social consequences compared to men and boys. In all settings GBV against women and girls is recognised as a high-risk factor for poor health outcomes including mental health, adverse reproductive outcomes, poor sexual health, disability, chronic pain, traumatic brain injury and even death. There is a notable scarcity of research and insight into how women mitigate and develop resilience in the face of these adversities, and how they construct resilience for positive living. This represents an untold story which the network intends to explore. The concept of resilience is gaining traction as a research tool, and this is happening in tandem with a recognition that the complexity of human communities, conflicting intersectionality, and the challenges faced, are growing more acute. Our network intends to meaningfully address these challenges in their full complexity. Our proposal combines an intergenerational approach to exploring perspectives of women and men on addressing and reducing GBV for promoting mental health and resilience with an inclusive participatory model, novel applied theatre methodology and digital media approaches. Through the application of applied theatre and storytelling as an umbrella concept, we envisage that these arts-based practice will create theatre with community groups with the aim of inviting change and investigating community-led solutions to the lived experiences of injustice, inequity, and violence. We will undertake this through: (1) Exploring how SDMW can be safely and ethically engaged in identifying critical areas for change in reducing GVB in their communities. (2) Eliciting stories from interested SDMW about their lived experiences of GBV and possible solutions. (3) Co-developing a series of workshops to mobilise lived experience experts and cross-sector stakeholders as agents of change for sustainable and culturally relevant research and impact agenda. (4) Building capacity in existing relationships and establishing new partnerships to strengthen and diversify the network's research base and funding applications. Our network will extend existing partnerships and develop new collaborations between UK and Indian academics and researchers, members of marginalised slum dwelling communities, theatre practitioners and NGOs. We will explore the forms that violence against women may take, ways they can resist it, and where help can be sought. Our theatrical, storytelling and digital media engagement will offer opportunities over and above conventional research methods to elicit new stories and experiences and catalyse fresh thinking about possible solutions in a way which can engage both women and men from marginalised communities in addressing GBV. Our network will impact on: (1) promoting peace, justice, dignity, wellbeing and resilience for this vulnerable community by facilitating effective and context-relevant solutions to GBV; (2) direct engagement in addressing GBV through co-creation of knowledge on resilience, and GBV prevention of strategies; (3) building capacity, facilitating preventative and resilience building measures to address GBV in slum dwelling internal migrant communities to promote gender equality, social justice and economic development; (4) inform national and international debates on culturally appropriate GBV prevention strategies for promoting peace, justice and resilience of marginalised slum dwelling communities in India/ South Asia.