Embodying Peace, Navigating Violence: A network of auto-ethnographers in Iraq and Palestine

这一研究网络将探索和扩大关于在冲突和不安全中体现的和平概念的知识。它将考察生活在不信任和冲突中的妇女在生理层面上体验和平与暴力氛围的方式，以及她们在居住的不断变化的地形中导航时采取的不同应对策略。这个网络聚焦于边缘女性，将带来对身体和情感不安全感的不同影响的交叉性和具体化的理解。此外，通过建立一个侧重于倍受边缘化妇女的经历的研究网络，扩大她们的声音，并产生一套规范和价值观，以创造安全的空间，使妇女能够跨越政治和宗教分歧参与其中，它将有助于对建设和平倡议采取更微妙、更相关和更适用的办法。因此，通过自动人种学日记、身体测绘和协作学习圈等创造性方法，这项研究将解决以下问题：-生活在恐怖、冲突和/或殖民主义背景下的妇女能/或能感受到和平是什么感觉？-如何在持久的暴力中体现一种安全感？-妇女采用和部署哪些机制来体现和平，以便她们能够在日常恐怖、不信任和暴力的重压下过好日常生活？在与主要调查人员的合作下，研究网络将由发展研究所(发展研究所)、伊拉克和巴勒斯坦的妇女社区行为者(她们将被聘为人种学研究人员)和成员网络“反思安全”组成，该网络包括调解资源组织、和平指导组织、安全世界组织和联合王国组织等。通过这一协作，我们将产生根植于当地文化、历史、特性、知识和社区的、跨越地理边界的背景信息研究，而那些在学习、政策和实践中心最受忽视的人产生的知识将传播给建设和平部门的活动家、学者、政策制定者和从业人员。将通过每月学习圈、博客和研讨会，以及在三次圆桌会议期间和作为一个实践者工具包，在建设和平中纳入和体现方法以及一份同行审查的期刊产出，加强和宣传该网络，并传播经验教训。此外，通过与妇女社区行为者共同开发解决这些研究问题的方法，这一研究网络将建立一个平台和工具包，使我们能够在整个过程中成长和扩大以和平为中心的非殖民化研究和实践的研究。因此，将在进一步的研究和联网活动中落实调查结果和方法，将实现真正的和平与安全作为基本人权，并作为在脆弱和受冲突影响的情况下建立根深蒂固的信任和未来稳定的核心手段。

This research network will explore and expand knowledge on the concept of embodied peace amidst conflict and insecurity. It will examine the means through which women living amid distrust and conflict experience atmospheres of peace and violence at a physiological level, and the different coping strategies they employ as they navigate through the shifting terrains they inhabit. Focusing on women at the margins, this network will bring an intersectional - and embodied - understanding to the differing impacts of physical and emotional insecurity. Additionally, by establishing a research network focusing on the experiences of multiply marginalised women, amplifying their voices and generating a set of norms and values for creating safe spaces in which women can engage across political and religious divides, it will contribute more nuanced, relevant and applicable approaches to peacebuilding initiatives. Through creative methodologies such as auto-ethnographic journaling, body-mapping and collaborative learning circles, the research will therefore address the following questions:- What can/or could peace feel like for women living within contexts of terror, conflict and/or colonialisms? - How can a felt sense of security be embodied amidst enduring violence? - What mechanisms are employed and deployed by women to embody peace and so that they may navigate their everyday lives under the weight of everyday terror, distrust and violence? Working in collaboration with the principal investigators, the research network will consist of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), women community actors in Iraq and Palestine who will be engaged as autoethnographic researchers, and the members network Rethinking Security, which includes the organisations Conciliation Resources, Peace Direct, Saferworld and UNA-UK among others. Through this collaboration, we will generate contextually informed research - across geographic boundaries - that is rooted in local cultures, histories, identities, knowledges and communities, and the knowledge produced by those who have been most overlooked in centres of learning, policy and praxis will be disseminated to activists, academics, policymakers and practitioners in the peacebuilding sector. The network will be strengthened and publicised, and learnings disseminated, through monthly learning circles, blogs and seminars, as well as during three roundtable events and as one practitioner toolkit for incorporating and embodied approach in peacebuilding and one peer-reviewed journal output. Moreover, through co-developing methodologies to address these research questions with the women community actors, this research network will establish a platform and toolkit from which we can grow and expand in the study of embodied peace - centralising decolonial research and praxis throughout. As such, the findings and methodologies will be implemented in further research and networking activities that address the realisation of embodied peace and security as fundamental human rights and a core means of establishing deep rooted trust and future stability in fragile and conflict affected contexts.