Participatory Research for Effective Collaboration in Response to Non-War Violences

联合国大会第73/338号决议将2021年定为国际和平与信任年，为建设“和平文化”奠定了重要基础，认识到和平不仅是没有冲突，而且需要一个积极、充满活力的参与性进程，鼓励对话，本着相互理解和合作的精神解决冲突。拟议的网络是关于参与性研究形式及其在长期、非战争暴力的特定背景下建立新的合作形式的能力，战争以外的暴力背景在全球范围内不断增加，并对和平是战争或冲突的反面的假设提出挑战。这一点在国际体系中仍未得到充分认识。非战争暴力死亡人数早已超过武装冲突死亡人数。人们认识到，暴力有许多非致命和致命的表现形式，拉丁美洲是世界上杀人和非致命暴力发生率最高的地区之一，有组织犯罪的扩大使情况更加严重。在这种情况下建立“动态参与进程”带来了许多挑战，但提出这一项目的学者多年来一直致力于如何使社区和民间社会团体能够分析这些暴力和他们在日常生活中的不安全感，以便制定解决这些问题的实际建议，然后与国家行为者进行对话。在过去的几年里，他们特别关注墨西哥，目前正在经历世界上最严重的暴力危机之一。在以往研究经验的基础上，该网络将把墨西哥社区和民间社会团体的研究参与者与墨西哥，英国和其他致力于全球暴力和犯罪的学者和组织联系起来，评估各种参与性研究进程如何有助于与国家行为者开展更有效的合作，以减少暴力和犯罪。虽然有大量证据表明国家行为者存在腐败现象，但我们的研究表明，可以鼓励其他人与民间社会和社区团体接触。该网络认识到跨学科透镜的重要性，并将汇集法律、历史、发展、人权、宗教和艺术方面的专业知识以及社会科学家，与墨西哥社区成员和组织接触。西班牙语将是工作语言，但我们与在拉丁美洲以外的暴力蹂躏国家工作的学者和民间社会合作。主要成果将是针对民间社会组织的《有效合作应对非战争暴力的前瞻性研究指南》，并就如何与社区和国家行为者进行有效合作以减少非战争暴力进行辩论。该网络的其他产出包括一系列学术文章、来自墨西哥伙伴关系的数据集，以及一个互动网站，该网站将托管《指南》，并将用户纳入一个网络，该网络将通过未来的年度活动得到维持，由阿伯丁大学公民、民间社会和法治中心资助。

UN Resolution A/73/338 which set up the International Year of Peace and Trust in 2021 lays an important foundation for building a 'culture of peace', recognizing that peace is not only absence of conflict but requires a positive, dynamic participatory process where dialogue is encouraged and conflicts are solved in a spirit of mutual understanding and cooperation. The proposed Network is about participatory forms of research and their capacity to build new forms of collaboration in particular contexts of chronic, non-war violences.Contexts of violence outside of war are on the rise globally and challenge assumptions that peace is the opposite of war or conflict. This is still not recognized sufficiently in the international system. The number of violent deaths outside of war has long exceeded deaths in armed conflict. And violence is recognized to have many non-lethal as well as lethal expressions.Latin America has one of the highest rates of homicides and non-lethal violences in the world, aggravated by the expansion of organized crime. Building 'dynamic participatory processes' in such contexts raises many challenges, but the academics proposing this project have been working for many years on how to enable communities and civil society groups to analyse these violences and the insecurity they live in their everyday lives, in order to develop practical propositions to address them and to then dialogue with state actors. The last few years they have focused particularly on Mexico, currently undergoing one of the most serious crises of violence in the world.Building on previous research experiences, the Network will connect research participants in communities and civil society groups in Mexico with Mexican, UK and other academics and organisations working on global violences and crime, to evaluate how participatory research processes of varied kinds can contribute to more effective collaborations with state actors aimed at reducing violences and crime. While there is ample evidence of corruption among state actors, our research has shown that others can be encouraged to engage with civil society and community groups.The Network recognizes the importance of an interdisciplinary lens, and will bring together expertise in law, history, development, human rights, religion and the arts, as well as social scientists, to engage with the Mexican community members and organisations. Spanish will be the working language, but we have partnered with academics and civil society who work in violence-torn countries beyond Latin America.The main output will be a Guide to Participatory Research for Effective Collaboration in Response to Non War Violences aimed at civil society organisations and at generating debate beyond Mexico about how to engage with communities and state actors for effective collaborations to reduce non-war violences and crime.Other Network outputs include a series of academic articles, a dataset deriving from the Mexico partnerships, and an interactive website that will host the Guide and incorporate users into a Network that will be sustained through future annual events, funded by U Aberdeen's Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law.