Performing Violence, Engendering Change: Developing Arts-Based Approaches to Peacebuilding

《表演暴力，促成变革：发展以艺术为基础的建设和平方法》将来自非洲、中东和南亚接受官方发展援助的国家的艺术家和研究人员联系在一起，致力于植根于艺术的建设和平实践。为此，它汇集了GCRF和英国科学院的项目，这些项目涉及黎巴嫩内战对基础设施的影响；肯尼亚的性别和对暴力极端主义的抵抗；受冲突影响的社会中过渡时期司法与发展之间的关系；性别公正和性别不安全。该专题组将通过在肯尼亚、黎巴嫩和斯里兰卡举办的为期三周的讲习班期间提供研究协作和知识交流的机会，加强参与者作为建设和平利益攸关方的作用。近年来，学者、政策制定者和从业人员已开始认识到使用以艺术为基础的方法预防暴力和建设和平的好处。有证据表明，以艺术为基础的方法在改善受暴力和冲突影响地区的人的安全和群体之间的关系方面具有巨大潜力。以艺术为基础的方法，特别是当与以社区为中心的参与性方法相结合时，可以同时作为分析工具和传播媒体，同时在困难的情况下为实际干预创造空间。尽管人们越来越意识到以艺术为基础的方法的积极影响，但实践界和研究界相互学习、共同创建研究和建立网络的机会很少。生活在极端主义暴力和冲突中可能会造成空间和生存上的孤立，对妇女、男子、青年和其他社会群体造成削弱但不同的后果。冲突地区产生的沉默和与世隔绝、隐秘和孤独与创伤后应激障碍和其他精神健康问题的存在有关。虽然暴力和冲突扰乱并常常摧毁社区，但它们所产生的共同经验也可以用来联系人们。该分组旨在打破孤立，通过将肯尼亚、黎巴嫩和斯里兰卡受冲突和极端暴力影响的社区联系起来，实现影响，这些社区正在努力建设积极的和平。这笔赠款将几乎完全用于将社区活动家、从业者、艺术家、学者(包括早期职业研究人员和博士生)和政策制定者聚集在三个讲习班上，这些讲习班将通过密集的研究制作、知识交流和培训课程，侧重于网络和能力建设，利用电影制作、戏剧、表演和视觉艺术作为对抗暴力和促进积极和平的工具。讲习班将主要侧重于以艺术为基础的方法如何加强冲突研究和建设和平的性别方法。分组旨在通过在研究人员、合作伙伴、政策制定者、民间社会行为者和受暴力影响的社区之间建立深入和持久的联系，加速捐助者项目的影响，以期扩大网络，将其他参与者和案例纳入未来的研究。除了传统的学术产出外，该专题组还将制作关于以艺术为基础的建设和平做法的纪录片短片，并制作一个不限成员名额的互动在线档案馆，通过一个专门的网站广泛查阅该专题组的研究。该网站将成为公众参与的主要门户网站，提供视频、播客和案例研究，并作为奖项结束后的资源。这些活动和产出旨在对预防暴力、预防暴力极端主义和建设和平的做法产生三个具体和可衡量的影响：创造和转让以艺术为基础的应对这些挑战的方法的知识；以背景为导向的学习和能力建设；促进性别平等和社会包容。

'Performing Violence, Engendering Change: Developing Arts-Based Approaches to Peacebuilding' connects artists and researchers from ODA recipient countries across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia working with peacebuilding practices rooted in the arts. It does so by bringing together GCRF and British Academy projects on the impact of the Lebanese civil war on infrastructure; gender and resistance to violent extremism in Kenya; the relationship between transitional justice and development in conflict-affected societies; and gender justice and gendered insecurities. The Cluster will enhance participants' roles as stakeholders in peacebuilding by providing opportunities for research collaboration and knowledge exchange during three week-long workshops held in Kenya, Lebanon and Sri Lanka.In recent years, scholars, policy makers and practitioners have begun to acknowledge the benefits of using arts-based methods for violence prevention and peacebuilding. Evidence suggests that arts-based methods hold significant potential for improving human security and relations between groups in areas affected by violence and conflict. Arts-based methods, especially when combined with community-centred participatory methodologies, can act at once as analytical tools and dissemination media, whilst creating spaces for practical interventions in difficult contexts. Despite the growing awareness of the positive impact of arts-based methods, there are scarce opportunities for communities of practice and research to learn from each other, co-create research and establish networks. Spatial and existential isolation can result from living with extremist violence and conflict, with debilitating but different consequences for women, men, youth and other social groups. The silence and seclusion, secrecy and loneliness that conflict zones engender have been linked with the presence of PTSD and other mental health conditions. Whilst violence and conflict disrupt and often devastate communities, the shared experiences they generate can also be used to connect people. The Cluster aims to break isolation and achieve impact by connecting communities in Kenya, Lebanon and Sri Lanka affected by conflict and extreme violence, who are working to build positive peace. The grant will be invested almost exclusively in bringing together community activists, practitioners, artists, academics (including early career researchers and PhD students) and policy makers in three workshops that will focus on network- and capacity building through intensive research production, knowledge exchange and training sessions on the use of filmmaking, theatre, performance and visual arts as tools to confront violence and promote positive peace. Workshops will include substantial focus on the ways that arts-based approaches can enhance gender approaches to conflict research and peacebuilding.The Cluster is designed to accelerate the impact of the contributor projects by building deep and lasting links between researchers, partners, policy makers, civil society actors and communities affected by violence, with a view to the network expanding to include other participants and cases in future research. In addition to traditional academic outputs, the Cluster will produce short documentary films on arts-based peacebuilding practices and an open-ended interactive Online Archive providing wide access to the Cluster's research via a dedicated website. The website will be the main portal for public engagement, featuring videos, podcasts and case studies, as well as serving as a resource beyond the end of the award. These activities and outputs are geared towards achieving three specific and measurable impacts on the practices of violence prevention, the prevention of violent extremism and peacebuilding: the creation and transfer of knowledge on arts-based approaches to these challenges; context-driven learning and capacity building; and fostering gender and social inclusion.