FLEECOIN Boko Haram Counterinsurgency: Fleeing Men and Boys

FLEECOIN项目解决了平叛（COIN）研究中的一个严重空白：平叛运动对平民人口的性别影响，以及男性和男孩为逃避与平叛相关的性别暴力（GBV）所采用的策略。有了这一创新的重点，并深入探索了在尼日利亚针对博科圣地（BH）的反叛军行动的案例研究，该项目对知识做出了两项核心贡献。首先，FLEECOIN为新兴学术做出了贡献，扩大了对性别暴力的研究重点，将男性和男孩的经历纳入其中。其次，该项目加深和细化了我们对国家反武装行动对平民的影响的理解，以及弱势男性在回应中使用的应对机制，特别是逃跑。在这里，它的主要重点是理解飞行作为平民男子和青少年男孩对反叛乱的反应。FLEECOIN的研究被设计为定性案例研究，并将涉及在尼日利亚的实地工作。收集原始数据的主要手段将是对专家、逃离社区的男子和青少年、参加与博科哈拉姆有关的反叛军行动的士兵以及男子和男孩逃离的社区的居民进行深入访谈。未能解决暴力冲突中受害男子的痛苦会对幸存者产生深远影响，因为这将他们排除在援助和支持之外。该研究与地平线欧洲工作计划集群2“文化，创造力和包容性社会”相一致，特别是地平线- cl2 -2022- transformations01 -05：性别与社会，经济和文化赋权，对性别与其他社会类别之间的交叉点，多种形式的歧视和劣势的累积效应，以及性别权力等级如何导致系统性的性别暴力感兴趣。

The FLEECOIN project addresses a serious gap in research on counterinsurgency (COIN): the gendered effects that COIN campaignshave on the civilian population, and the strategies employed by men and boys to escape the gender-based violence (GBV) related toCOIN. With this innovative focus, and exploring in depth the case study of COIN against Boko Haram (BH) in Nigeria, the project makestwo core contributions to knowledge. First, FLEECOIN contributes to emergent scholarship that amplifies the research focus on GBVto include the experiences of men and boys. Secondly, this project deepens and nuances our understanding of the effects of states'COIN campaigns on civilians, and of the coping mechanisms used by vulnerable males in response, especially fleeing. Here, itsprimary focus is on understanding flight as a response to COIN by civilian men and adolescent boys. The FLEECOIN research isdesigned as a qualitative case study and will involve fieldwork in Nigeria. The major instrument for primary data collection will be indepthinterviews with experts, men and adolescent boys who have fled their communities, soldiers who have taken part in BokoHaram-related COIN operations, and residents of communities from where men and boys fled. Failure to address the suffering of malevictims during violent conflicts has profound consequences for the survivor because it excludes them from assistance and support.The research coincides with Horizon Europe work programme cluster 2 "Culture, creativity and inclusive society", specificallyHORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS01-05: Gender and social, economic and cultural empowerment, interested in intersectionsbetween gender and other social categories and the cumulative effect of multiple forms of discrimination and disadvantages, and inhow gendered power hierarchies lead to systematic GBV.