Transformative Memories In Political Violence: An International Network

在政治暴力之后，人们如何记住和记住什么，他们如何分配责任？在过去的三十年里，过渡司法（TJ）模式主导了对政治暴力时期的反应。虽然这些方法是值得称赞的，但它们往往以静态的方式构思记忆和暴力，好像重建事件以从过去找回真相或事实可以纠正记录并促进统一的愈合。这些自上而下的努力往往无法治愈社会创伤，因为它们无法改变压迫、剥夺和排斥的制度。因此，正如"国际和平与信任年"所强调的那样，"和平不仅是没有冲突"。因此，我们需要批判性地质疑记忆的使用和政治暴力的责任，认识到如果没有这一点，我们就会破坏IYPT核心的可持续和平。IYPT指出了"动态参与进程"对促进理解和建设可持续和平的重要性。我们的研究调查响应这些批评和参与的呼吁，通过我们的变革记忆网络积极参与记忆工作的生成形式。经过近十年的合作伙伴之间的非正式交流和研究合作，变革记忆国际网络成立于2019年，是学者，艺术家，社会运动领袖，社区组织和政策制定者的集体，致力于解决是什么使记忆变革的问题。网络成员来自哥伦比亚、乌干达、印度尼西亚、加拿大和北方爱尔兰。我们的调查路线和方法建立在网络成员和合作伙伴之间围绕关键问题的知识交流基础上：我们如何记住对大规模和国家支持的暴力的责任？我们从强大的行为者否认责任的策略中学到了什么？牢记责任如何塑造现在和未来的关系以及在土地、社区、国家和全球政治中团结在一起的方式？我们通过采用一种方法来解决这些问题，这种方法将记忆的工作置于共同构成它的生物、关系和地点的网络中，作为一个强大的行动力场。在前两次交流（乌干达2019年，哥伦比亚，2020年）的基础上，我们将于2022年在贝尔法斯特举办MemoLab。MemoLab将通过促进基于场所，互惠和具体的知识交流，并通过使用对话方法，如戏剧，纺织品创作，讲故事，绘图（和参观贝尔法斯特的分裂景观），视觉参与，音景和表演，来询问记忆实践和研究问题。为期六天的MemoLab将由阿尔斯特大学及其合作伙伴和合作者主办：通过记忆治愈，冲突纺织品，粉碎时代剧院公司和国家博物馆NI在阿尔斯特博物馆举办的新的"麻烦和超越"展览。通过记忆治愈将确定来自北方爱尔兰的参与者，包括艺术家、从业人员、受害者、前战斗人员、民间社会成员，与国际网络参与者一起加入MemoLab。MemoLab将包括一个研究生会议，以及为特刊撰写六篇文章的空间。与MemoLab同时，网络成员和合作伙伴的精选作品将在一年一度的都柏林艺术和人权节（DAHRF）和阿尔斯特博物馆的"麻烦及以后"展览中展出。来自MemoLab的作品（例如装置，海报艺术，音乐，诗歌和表演）将被添加到年度DAHRF在线展览中。MemoLab将与年度DAHRF（2022年10月）重合。这将告知a）在MemoLab和B）网络成员之间的研究创造之后前往哥伦比亚，加拿大和乌干达的展览，至少有2篇额外的期刊文章。MemoLab的全部成果将存放在网络现有的数字档案中。

In the wake of political violence, how and what do people remember, and how do they assign responsibility? Over the past thirty years, transitional justice (TJ) models have dominated responses to periods of political violence. While such approaches are laudatory, they often conceive of memory and violence in static ways, as if reconstructing events to retrieve truth or facts from the past can set the record straight and promote unified healing. These top-down efforts often fail to heal social wounds as they do not transform systems of oppression, dispossession, and exclusion. Thus highlighting as the 'International Year of Peace and Trust'( IYPT) does, "peace not only is the absence of conflict". We, therefore, need to critically interrogate the use of memory and responsibility for political violence, recognising that without this we undermine sustainable peace at the heart of the IYPT. The IYPT notes the importance of a "dynamic participatory process" to foster understanding and build sustainable peace. Our research inquiry responds to these critiques and the call for participation by actively engaging in generative forms of memory work through our Transformative Memory Network. Established in 2019 following nearly a decade of informal exchange and research collaboration between partners, the Transformative Memory International Network is a collective of scholars, artists, social movement leaders, community-based organisations and policymakers, engaged with the question of what makes memory transformative. Network members are from Colombia, Uganda, Indonesia, Canada and Northern Ireland. Our lines of inquiry and methodology build on knowledge exchange amongst Network members and partners around key questions: How do we remember responsibility for mass and state-sponsored violence? What do we learn from the strategies of powerful actors to deny responsibility? How does remembering responsibility shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land, community, country, and global politics?We address these questions by adopting a methodology that situates the work of memory in the web of living beings, relationships and places that co-constitute it as a powerful force field of action. Building on two previous exchanges (Uganda 2019, Colombia, 2020), we will host a MemoLab in Belfast in 2022. The MemoLab will interrogate memory practices and the research questions by fostering exchanges of knowledge that are place-based, reciprocal and embodied and through the use of dialogical methods such as theatre, textile creation, storytelling, mapping (and visiting the divided landscape of Belfast), visual engagement, soundscape and performance. The six-day MemoLab will be hosted by Ulster University and partners and collaborators: Healing Through Remembering, Conflict Textiles, the Smashing Times Theatre company, and National Museums NI on their new "Troubles and Beyond" exhibit at the Ulster Museum. Healing Through Remembering will identify participants from Northern Ireland, including artists, practitioners, victims, former combatants, civil society members to join the MemoLab with international Network participants. The MemoLab will include a Graduate Conference, and space to work on six articles for a Special Issue. Concurrent to the MemoLab selected pieces from Network members and partners will be shown in the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and the Ulster Museum's "Troubles and Beyond" exhibit. Pieces emerging from the MemoLab (e.g. installation, poster art, music, poetry and performance) will be added to the annual DAHRF online exhibit. The MemoLab will coincide with the annual DAHRF (October 2022). This will inform an a) exhibit that travels to Colombia, Canada, and Uganda after the MemoLab and b) research-creation among Network's members with at least 2 additional journal articles. The full results of the MemoLab will be housed in the current Digital Archive of the Network.