Echoes of Suffering: An Ethnography of Trauma, Violence, and Social Work in Post-Conflict Belfast

自从最近一次北爱尔兰冲突（1998年）按惯例结束以来，社会工作者一直站在冲突后北爱尔兰社会和保健干预的最前线。这些冲突后的干预政策主要侧重于处理过去的创伤和暴力，但迄今为止尚未产生稳定的长期效益。此外，不平衡的社会和经济生活条件仍然影响着生活在贝尔法斯特隔离的工人阶级地区的人们。仔细观察贝尔法斯特的一个青年中心是如何管理“关怀”的，这对于理解社会工作者如何处理复杂的情况至关重要，比如准军事暴力、与毒品有关的暴力和自杀。目前的卫生和社会保健政策不能完全解决这种复杂性，也不能提供长期支持。我的作品反映了“创伤”和“暴力”，提供了一种新颖的方法，同时关注过去冲突的遗产和结构性不平等的条件，如贫困。事实证明，听取地方经验对于深入了解社会工作者如何提供“护理”至关重要，这证明了地方理解对执行社会和保健政策的重要性。在我对贝尔法斯特冲突后的创伤、暴力和社会工作的博士研究的基础上，这个奖学金将帮助我发展我以前在城市当地团体的工作，并将我的研究成果带给更广泛的社会。该奖学金将使我能够专注于四个目标：最大化我的公众影响力。2 .博士研究成果的传播与发表。拓展我的人际网络。为我今后的研究打下坚实的基础，并将研究推进到下一个阶段。

Since the conventional end of the latest Northern Irish conflict (1998), social workers have been at the forefront of social and health interventions in post-conflict Northern Ireland. These post-conflict policies of intervention have been largely focused on dealing with the trauma and the violence of the past, but to this date there have not been stable long-term benefits, yet. Moreover, uneven social and economic conditions of life still affect people who live in segregated working-class areas of Belfast. Closely looking at how 'care' is administered in one youth centre in Belfast has been crucial to understand how social workers deal with complex situations, such as paramilitary violence, drug-related violence, and suicide. Current health and social care policies are not entirely able to tackle this complexity and cannot provide long-term support. Reflecting on 'trauma' and 'violence', my work provides an original approach that looks simultaneously at the legacies of the past conflict and at conditions of structural inequality, such as poverty. Listening to local experiences has proved crucial to gain an in-depth knowledge of how social workers deliver 'care', evidencing the importance of local understandings for the implementation of social and health care policies.Building on my doctoral research on trauma, violence, and social work in post-conflict Belfast, this fellowship will help me to develop my previous work with local groups in the city and bring my research findings to the wider society. The fellowship will allow me to focus on four objectives:1. Maximise my public impact.2. Dissemination and publication of my doctoral research.3. Expand my network.4. Build solid grounds for my future research and advance the investigation to the next stage.